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Subscribe to RSSCHESTER, VA -- Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal came to Mitt Romney's defense today over remarks the Republican presidential nominee made Tuesday, saying he wouldn't seek new anti-abortion legislation as president.
"There's only one pro-life candidate running for president, and that's Governor Romney," Jindal told reporters.
As both presidential candidates stump in Ohio, Mitt Romney made an apparent shift on abortion, which was pounced upon by President Obama's campaign. Meanwhile, the tug of war over Big Bird has ruffled feathers with the nonprofit behind Sesame Street. NBC's Peter Alexander reports.
Tuesday, in an interview with the Des Moines Register's editorial board, Romney said, "There's no legislation with regards to abortion that I'm familiar with that would become part of my agenda."
Jindal today went on to rebuff attacks from Democrats, including an Obama campaign conference call this morning pointing to Romney's past support for restrictions on access to abortion.
"The reality is, its no surprise that President Obama would want to talk about anything but the economy," Jindal said.
The remarks came after he and McDonnell visited a barbecue restaurant here in Chester, one of three stops today across a wide swath of eastern Virginia as the two men get out the vote for the Republican presidential ticket.
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McDonnell said that Romney was signaling that his presidential agenda "isn't focusing on social issues."
"Having read those comments from Governor Romney," McDonnell said of the Register interview, "what he was saying is, his overwhelming priority is going to be creating jobs, getting the economy back on track."
Both McDonnell and Jindal are outspoken on social issues and are fervently anti-abortion -- though when asked today they would not say they were disturbed by Romney's remarks.
Republicans are likely hoping a strong debate performance by vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan in Thursday's debate against Vice President Joe Biden will shift the conversation.
Speaking to supporters earlier, Jindal -- once a much-speculated about contender for veep himself -- said he didn't want raise expectations for Ryan, with whom he earlier served in Congress.
But Jindal spoke highly of Ryan's chances. "I don't think its going to be a fair fight," he said.
Pointing to sections of the interview in which Romney cites his support for cutting funding to countries promoting abortion, McDonnell said the "no legislation" remarks are being taken out of context.
"Governor Romney's pro-life. Pro-life bills that get to his desk, there's no question in my mind he will sign." McDonnell said.
"He's pro-life, Obama's pro-choice, and now let's talk about the economy."
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If this had happened during the primary, we'd be talking about candidate Santorum.
Surprise!!!!!
Mr. BIG LIE Anywhere, Anytime, Mitt Romney GOP candidate:
Who was pro-choice for 32 years ....
Will swivel on a toothpick on highwire, to avoid telling you any truth.
And you have to read the SMALL PRINT on his new swivel line on abortion, because it is very slithery indeed.
Watching Mike Murphy on CBS News this Morning try and spin this into something positive was hysterical. Romney might have gotten a bump from the debate, but the Mittens we know oh so well is BACK!!!!
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57529419/republican-strategist-ohio-a-problem-for-romney/?tag=showDoorFlexGridLeft;flexGridModule
Obama/Biden 2012
I see you use the GOP attack-lie tactic:
Followed by Accuse-the-other-person-of-lying tactic.
That is so strategically fashionable among your leaders.
So even his supporters know Mitt lies and they have to constantly correct him. How sad this is the BEST candidate the Republicans have - a "man" who has no convictions and no concept of ideas. He is a total lost cause but the ignorant low information voters will clamor after him.
smitty1118 - Backhouse hasn't lied about anything - Mitt was pro-choice before he was against it, then for it, then against it again.
You're the liar and you don't even know it. Easy to see why you support Mitt - he's just like you!
Obama/Biden 2012
Obaam/Biden 2012
backhouse,
that's from the dems playbook. I swiped a copy.
Romney just shakes his etch-a-sketch once again.
Does this guy have any position that doesn't change when he's answering a question about it?
How can anyone know where Mitt Romney stands on anything.
Flip-flopping away, flip-flopping away, Romney ducks defending his position by just flip-flopping away.
as long as the babe is in the womb the GNOP is pro-life....once it is out of the womb guess what....they become hawks - pro war or - pro execution....so much for the value of life!
GNOP - we don't need no fact checkers...GNOP CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
C'mon Mythe - Show us the 1040's! What ARE you hiding?!
The late lion of the Senate Ted Kennedy summed Willard up brilliantly;
When Romney said he had a plan he could show Kennedy, the senator shot back:
McDonnell said that Romney was signaling that his presidential agenda "isn't focusing on social issues."
Well if he wants to sign any bills in the fantasy island where he is president he will have to because that is all the house of reps is focused on...
The expectation has always been on the Dems- to tell the truth.
Any slip, and we hear about it Right Away from the wah!wah! G.O.P.
(They also cry if beaten in the Polls, or if unemployment is the same as when Bush left office = 7.8%)
Meanwhile GOP/Koch go on National Televison and they lie, and lie, and lie, and lie, and whopper, and lie , and lie, and lie, and lie (Palin, Bachmann, Ryan & Romney come immediately to mind).
And then it's Oh, NEVER MIND.
" Governor Romney's pro life. Pro-life bills that get to his desk, there's no question in my mind he will sign." McDonnell said. In other words, " He's a LIAR"
Yeah - we learned the hard way from the the lush Boehner and his band of teabagging nazi thugs. Scream "jobs, jobs, jobs" to get elected and then do everything you can to sabotage the economy and focus your priorities on social legislation that would make Torquemada cringe.
Now it is official. Romney has the "backing" of the sick, perverted, probing Governor of Virginia. When the pervert loves and trusts him, we should all be afraid.
"Accuse-and-Lie" again?
When quoting, we use quotation marks. You?
Don't know who Flip Flops More VoMitt RomNut or Lyin Ryan
They both seem to be pathological in their lies
careful smitty no one is suppose to know that backhouse is Navy, if not Feisty, Clara and NDD will call you the rereg. Or Feisty's new one, I use a proxy server. what a joke.
Vaginal Probe Bob is defending this epic flip-flop? You just can't make this stuff up... :)
Obama/Biden 2012
McDonnell needs an anal probe ultra sound before he can get his Viagra he needs for diddling little boys.....
That is the ultimate power trip for these slugs......
Most of these 1%ers and 1% supporters like to vacation where Michael Jackson did....
Do the people who vote for them practice that behavior also ?
It wouldn't surprise me.....Anybody who votes GOP with even a little smarts is voting that way because of hate or greed or both.....Even some of the Low Information voters do too(Have hate and greed at their core)
shaak322
Romney just shakes his etch-a-sketch once again.
shaak,
LOL, and once again he sees President Obama's face. He then sh!ts all over himself because he knows he's losing.
4 more 4 44
Obama/Biden 2012
Once again a new Mitt Romney emerges in the campaign, this time in an attempt swoon female voters.
As for Romney's proxies, this is news because Mitt made it so. Bringing it up and discussing it is fair game. This distraction as they call it, wasn't brewed up in the White House, it was Romney's own words.
And he's lying once again. On June 8th, 2011, Romney wrote a piece for the National Review in which he stated he would advocate and push for anti-abortion legislation were he to be elected. He even suggested a name for the bill...
His own campaign came out and said Romney was pro-choice and he would of course sign any anti-abortion bill that might come across his desk as President.
Once again, Mitt is twisting.
Lefty libs are sick people. Romney is pro-life and you know it. He didn't say anything that is the least bit a lie. The clowns on the left just love to bring up the abortion word anytime they can. Guess what, it doesn't work anymore, get some new stuff. You'll need new stuff next election because you have already lost this one with your lousy candidate.
Horses ass Mr. Ed sure has you guys repeating the word lie. Anyone that would follow anything that that horses ass would say must not have any brain cells of their own.
Layton-- Right on girl! Spin, Spin, Spin, that of course would be the response from Gov. Ultrasound McDonnell, Geeze! I wish that the right would keep their noses, OUT OF WOMEN'S VAGINAS! The right to choose, has been the law for OVER 30 YEARS, just get over it already. But noooo... they, driven by the EXTREME RELIGIOUS RIGHT, have interfered over and over, because for SOME STRANGE REASON, they believe that women use abortion, as a means of BIRTH CONTROL! I have NEVER understood this arguement, they obviously have NO idea how expensive an abortion is, most women can't afford one in the first place, and if they DO decide to go that route, it is USUALLY a LAST RESORT! That is why sex education is so important, but they don't like that either, they seem to think that burying your head in the sand , or "teaching abstinence" is the ONLY way to prevent unwanted pregnancies, just FORGET about condons or the pill!
Do we really want a serial lying, undecisive, flip-flopper anywhere near the nuclear launch codes?
To quote the Weeper of the House; "OH HELL NO YOU DON'T"!!!
Apparently JH is not clever enough to research Miss Mittsy's record on the subject. Again, he craps in their face and they sit there smiling.
How can anyone say with conviction that what Miss Mittsy says today is where he stands on any issue? Mittsy is very pro-choice when it suits him.
I know that was a typo, but it sounds just like Mitt anyway, contradicting himself in the same sentence.....
What's really sad folks is that we know this isn't anything new for Mitt. That man will say anything, maybe even do anything to get elected.
He will tell one guy to the right of him he's Pro-Life, turn cheek and then tell the person to his left he's Pro-Choice.
AND WE'RE SURPRISED? REALLLLLLLYYYY??
Fiesty------You can't Flip-Flop on global nuclear war but Mitt sure would try to spin it.............
That is why he will lose...Above all else.
The biggest friggen lying politician that ever lived in the White House is that scum bag Bill Clinton. The left loves him but will try to make anyone on the right look like a liar as often as they can. You guys are really funny. I can't wait to hear the conversation when your guy gets sent back to Chicago. I'll bet we'll hear how the right lied and cheated and stole the election, right? Too funny!!
because they know that by tomorrow, Romney will be again for anti-abortion. Been there, done that...
is Mitt for pro-choice or pro-life?
Mitt's just a pro...
JH - you know Clinton isn't running for anything, right? Please try to keep up. You're really lucky he isn't because he would also beat Mitt!
You won't hear a thing from us after the election because President Obama will be re-elected. Oh wait - that's a lie - we'll be celebrating so you'll probably hear a lot!
Obama/Biden 2012
I pray to God that America and Americans will wake up to these extremist right wing views that are coming out to the republican party. I find them very un-Christian and evil. Jindal I'm not surprised at since he comes from Louisiana, but I guess I'm not surprised by McConnell either.
JH-479998
Bill Clinton cleaned up the pile of sh*t after Bush1.
Romney's great contribution to a teeny weeny state of Massachusetts was leaving it worse off than before.
Clinton lied about a BJ.
Romney has lied about everything except a BJ.
No worries!!!! By 9:00 PM tonight Romney will have "another vision" for abortion. It would give you a headache if you follow his BS every time that he changes his mind.
Obama 2012
Dubya lied about WMD!
....so, there are lies and then there are things that 'Betray the Public trust"..a la Dubya!
Booby Jindal is actually part of SNL, there is no way someone could be such a dufass in real life..........
JH: Two names for you: NIXON or BUSH, JR. I personally say Bush, Jr. as the worst president, with Nixon coming in as a strong second.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2.0
Here is the real Romney!!
Opposes abortion, but invested in company that disposes of aborted fetuses. Just because Mitt Romney would make it illegal to have an abortion doesn’t mean he minds making a profit on other people’s abortions. In 1999, while Mitt Romney was still CEO of Bain Capital (a leveraged-buyout firm spun off from Bain & Co.), the company invested tens of millions of dollars in Stericyle, a medical waste firm that, among the vast array of medical waste services it provides to medical facilities, is the disposal of aborted fetuses.
JH,
I that why after his lie about not being against abortion in the debates the Conservative crazies had to remind Mittens of his pledge to be "Pro Life?" Just remember he was Pro-life before he was elected governor of Mass. As governor he was for some choice, as a candidate he was first Pro-life, in the debates he wasn't and now he is pro-life again! Nice man to have run a country!
Mitt Romney has to think his supporters are idiots. He doesn't think they are smart enough to realize that he's telling them whatever they want to hear regardless of what he believes personally. For all we know, he may in fact be very pro gay marriage, very pro choice, anti-ware, he may well be left of Obama (especially since Obama is following through on or doubling down on Bush 2 in some areas) or he's sure that they are so full of hate for the other guy that he can be the complete opposite of what they want/hope for in a President and they'll still vote for him (even if the other guy is likely to help them more).
I mean..let's be honest. If Romney came out tomorrow and said he was going to increase the funding for PBS tenfold, increase food stamps/welfare 10 fold, raise taxes on the rich put in stricter regulation , fund alternative energy more aggressively, move towards universal healthcare, institute stricter gun laws and taxes, decriminalize all drugs, legalize gay marriage - it would not change his support. As a matter of fact, he'd win more votes from undecideds. Romney has you so deep in his pocket that he could say all that tomorrow and say that till the election and he wouldn't lose a single vote. Yall are just pawns in the game and he couldn't give 2 sh!ts what most of you believe. And its for this reason that the Republican party will never have to do anything. Congress could have afforded to basically reject and stall on everything thats not a witch hunt then come back and still get support.
It's nice to know that the repugnicans care so much for children...right up until their mother gives birth. After that, they're on their own.
I guess they have to do something to ensure an ample supply of bodies to send off to their wars in Iraq, Afghan., Syria, Libya, Sudan...so may good potential wars to figth!! We need more military spending...
So Mitt has to use a dead Navy Seal to promote his political agenda while Obama uses Big Bird. I don't see much difference other than Mitt's lack of understanding and compassion!
Jeez, Romney believes in everything and he believes in nothing. What a joke.
Mitt Romney has to think his supporters are idiots.
Why does Romney always need someone else to come to his defense? Who is going to come to his defense if he is elected, and flip flops on his positions on issues?
Jindal, talk about an ass kissing pawn that will do anything for political gain, what do they call them, political whores? Jindal is at the top of the heap. Louisiana, one of the worst states in the nation at everything, and this little man for two years has been flying around the country with his security force, at Louisiana taxpayer expense to flaunt Presidential wannabe's, plus, remember, he supported Rick Perry for President....LOL
Enough said!!
OBAMA/BIDEN....2012!!!!
They are not pro life, they are anti-abortion. pro life would indicate that people deserve consideration and care at any age, not just when they are unborn.
Right,Right.....
Nicely stated Tzalaran.
Mitch McConnell(Diabolical evilness) said it straight up:
"Governor Romney's pro-life. Pro-life bills that get to his desk, there's no question in my mind he will sign." McDonnell said.
That, my friends, was a reminder to Romney that he will do what he is told. McConnell and his bunch are the ones that run the show in the Republican party.
Does anyone else remember all the way back to 2010 when the teabaggers ran, saying it was all about the economy and JOBS. Then once in office, in every state where they held power, it was all about birth control, abortion, trying to close women's health clinics using whatever means they could dream up, including regulations on hallway widths. Where are the jobs the teabaggers promised? To paraphrase their Saint Ronald, here they go again.
Justme-123
Don't forget voter suppression!
They couldn't wait to "fix" something that isn't broken!
WHERE ARE THE JOBS, BOEHNER?
WHERE ARE THE JOBS, CANTOR?
WHERE ARE THE JOBS, MCCONNELL?
O&JOE 2012
4MORE4 44!
UNEMPLOYMENT IS GOING DOWN, THE DOW IS UP, THE DEFICIT HAS FALLEN OVER 207 BILLION AT THE END OF FY 2012 BRINGING OUR GDP DOWN TO 7% FROM 8.7% AT THE END OF FY 2011. THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER, SLOW, BUT THEY ARE MOVING IN A POSITIVE DIRECTION!
Romney wants to be "Pro-life" Wednesdays, The "Personhood" man on Mondays and the idiot of the Village the rest of the week
IRESPOND - well he's definitely got the idiot of the Village role down pat!
Obama/Biden 2012
wwaaahhhh.. there is no voter suppression.
Screw Libya, screw the US economy, SAVE BIG BIRD
Remember liberals the road to hell is paved with good intentions. your tax dollars at work
Little Caesar, You are starting to lie as much as your hero Mutt the Slut. Voter suppression is exactly what this crap is and you know it. The Republiscums in congress gutted the budget for security at our embassies around the world. The Republiscums have voted against every jobs bill put before them. Besides being the only neutral news station left in the US the educational value of PBS is one of the best investments dollar for dollar the US government spends it's money on. Go back to your bathroom with your Mitt poster and do what you do best. Come back when you have something truthful and/or intelligent to say, if that's possible. Pizza Pizza little freak!
Very good and subtle difference. Republicans and TPs in general talk a good story about being Pro Life..........then have no plan to help people get birth control or pregnant women or their babies get good health care. What they are really against is ABORTION in any case of mothers' health, rape, incest or just plain choice.
I would rather women not use abortion as a form of birth control, BUT who am I to tell people what to do with their lives. WHY do Republicans and the TP conservatives among us (?), have no problem with affecting others' lives?? They have no plans to take care of those unplanned babies but they sure want them to be born so they can ignore their needs and health............I don't understand the mind of the "conservative" religious wackos, including my own catholic church.
Tell us Republicans, which Romney do you favor?
This Mitt Romney ---- "The Arizona immigration policy is a good model" – Mitt Romney.
Or this Mitt Romney ---"I didn't really support the Arizona immigration policy" – Mitt Romney.
This Mitt Romney ---- “The Massachusetts healthcare plan should be a model for the nation” – Mitt Romney.
Or this Mitt Romney ---- “Healthcare reform should be left to the states” – Mitt Romney.
This Mitt Romney ---- "Let Detroit go bankrupt" -Mitt Romney.
Or this Mitt Romney ---- "I'll take a lot of credit for saving the auto industry" -Mitt Romney.
This Mitt Romney ---- “I believe Roe v Wade has gone too far.” – Mitt Romney.
Or this Mitt Romney ----- “Roe v Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.”– Mitt Romney.
This Mitt Romney ---- “I respect and will protect a woman’s right to choose.” – Mitt Romney.
Or this Mitt Romney ----- “I never really called myself pro-choice.” – Mitt Romney.
This Mitt Romney ----- “It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.” – Mitt Romney.
Or this Mitt Romney ----- “I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and represent our country there.” – Mitt Romney.
This Mitt Romney ----- “I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.” – Mitt Romney.
Or this Mitt Romney ----- “Ronald Reagan is… my hero.” – Mitt Romney.
This Mitt Romney ----- “I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation.” – Mitt Romney.
Or this Mitt Romney ----- "There’s no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.”– Mitt Romney.
This Mitt Romney ----- “I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.” – Mitt Romney.
Or this Mitt Romney ----- “I did not see it with my own eyes.” – Mitt Romney.
This Mitt Romney ----- “I would like to have campaign spending limits.” – Mitt Romney.
Or this Mitt Romney ----- “The American people should be free to advocate for their candidates without burdensome limitations.” – Mitt Romney.
This Mitt Romney ----- “I supported the assault weapon ban.” – Mitt Romney
Or this Mitt Romney ----- "I don’t support any gun control legislation.” – Mitt Romney.
This Mitt Romney ----- “The stimulus that was passed in early 2009 will accelerate the recovery…” –Mitt Romney.
Or this Mitt Romney --- “The stimulus passed in early 2009 has been a failure.” – Mitt Romney.
Every time I hear or see Bob McDonnell I will always think transvaginal probe. I cannot believe that any women would ever vote for this.
First Romney says he would sign a person-hood bill. Then he says he would want to see Roe v Wade overturned and would rig the Supreme Court to do that very thing.
But now wants you to believe he would protect your right to choose.
Falling for Romney and the republicans con games gets you nothing more that the country that Bush and the republicans left us with.
VOTE FOR WOMEN'S FREEDOM...VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT 2012
Why not vote for all of America's freedom? Why so sexist?
Chef Darrell-----Why only take away a woman's right to choose? How about taking away your Viagra ?
If God intended for those men to fornicate he would not have blessed them with a limp one....
Chef Also a little GOP projecting there...You know blaming others for what you do...Like calling someone sexist when the Grumpy Old Men party has been so misogynistic lately it is dangerous for women...
Well...let's face it. If it weren't for forcing victims of incest to bear their father's child, there would be no "chef darrell".
There was a young woman, very severely mentally disabled who was raped by a 26 year old. She is not able to communicate and can barely life a finger. Because she didn't "resist" the "man" was acquitted. The Georgia legislature reasoned that she should have been able to resist in some way so she must have been a willing participant.
These are people Romney and Ryan would say have no choice if they get pregnant.
Obama/Biden 2012
Round Two
From the article above:
It's no surprise that Governor Jindal would be repeating a Faux, Limbaugh, Luntz talking point.
Job numbers went below 8%. My friends on the right better hope President Obama doesn't talk about the economy, because Romney will lose.
Salud
The next President could appoint up to 3 Supreme Court justices, so the very existence of Roe v. Wade is at issue in this election. A woman voting for Romney is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.
So, SS, what you are saying is that according to Todd Akin it was a legitimate rape. The atrocities that go on in our own country are spellbinding, aren't they?
Jindal is an 'anchor baby" born 6-7 months after his parents arrived in country........
I wonder why he doesn't go into that line of rhetoric since it was a favorite of the TeaPeople. ....lol
AlaskaGirl - frightening that such disgusting stances are taken by "leadership" isn't it?
Obama/Biden 2012
No @!$%#.
TAX RETURNS! TAX RETURNS! TAX RETURNS! Whatcha hidin' in there Rom?
OBAMA/BIDEN 2.0
Seeking Sanity-There was a young woman, very severely mentally disabled who was raped by a 26 year old. She is not able to communicate and can barely life a finger. Because she didn't "resist" the "man" was acquitted. The Georgia legislature reasoned that she should have been able to resist in some way so she must have been a willing participant.
And there everybody is the thinking of the Republican Party. I don't see how this election could be any clearer. On the Republican side we see dis-belief in social justice,science,and women's equal right.As well as a desire to bring back the Bush policy of war spending and cutting taxes on the wealthy.The same recipe for disaster we are just now getting out of after their last time in power.
Its up to Americans that believe in social justice,science,and women's equal rights. And reject a return to Bush's wars and wealthy tax cuts. To stand up for America on Nov. 6th. Vote a straight Democratic ticket and make sure we protect our rights.
Obama/Biden for Justice.
Chef.............you are incredibly naive if you don't believe that what was described is EXACTLY the crap that the Republican party has fooled so many about..........these guys care nothing about women's rights and maybe Romey cares even less if that is possible to go negative and hate womens' freedoms. They are pandering to the "religious right" who in general terms are religious only on Sundays and when it affects their wallets.
Oh, Payush, spare us the elephant poo. You know as well as the rest of us that Romney has no stand on any issue. He flips and flops and moves with the prevailing wind. Go back to Looseiana where you belong.
You'd think that, in a normal, healthy society, this sorry excuse for a leader would have long since lost any scrap of credibilty. Yet he's the nominee of one of our two major parties- the party of the Desperate, the Dumb, and the Doomed.
Stand by for some brilliant comeback along the lines of: "Gasp, sputter, choke- Fast and Furious- squawk, urp, gag- illegal immigration- hack, phttthh, spew- college transcripts- hurl, yak, uurrgghh- Muslim terrorist, BLARRGGHH!"
This is apparently what passes for intelligent discourse in today's Party of Lincoln.
Say, Joe the Albanian- what's for lunch today?
It's the economy?
The past week has been spent analyzing last week's presidential debate, and today many want the folks who write the headlines here to focus on foreign policy hearings...
What's up with that economy anyway? Seems like both candidate's camps have lost sight of the James Carville axiom...
dangerfield -
I like the new avatar.
"I always wanted to be number one. Instead, I'm a number two!"
- Rodney Dangerfield
Salud
n a 1994 debate with Senator Ted Kennedy, Romney said: "One of the great things about our nation ... is that we're each entitled to have strong personal beliefs, and we encourage other people to do the same. But as a nation, we recognize the right of all people to believe as they want and not to impose our beliefs on other people. I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a U.S. Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years, that we should sustain and support it, and I sustain and support that law, and the right of a woman to make that choice, and my personal beliefs, like the personal beliefs of other people, should not be brought into a political campaign."[228][229][230]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Mitt_Romney#Abortion_and_related_issues
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He's not pro life, he's not pro-choice...on this topic he is MULTIPLE-choice...
gremlins!
Didn't the Sesame Workshop tell the Obama campaign to cease and desist using their copyrighted character in their ads? Why, then, does first read put the picture up there?
Duh....maybe because First Read is not part of the Obama campaign?? Here's your sign.....
The conspiracy is here........Hurry up Chef don your tinfoil protection helmet....
It goes on the other head..
You are supposed to use Saran Wrap on that one.....
Stop diddling....
What is that stuff you are watching in the other window....
EEEwwwwwwwwwwww...........
Gee Chef, you're losing the argument on abortion so you want to change the subject to big bird. Not a new ploy from the right.
Jindal, I want to talk about a woman's right to choose because I am a woman. Nice try attempting to deflect talking about anything but the economy!
Romney supports the personhood amendment...the House tried to pass one. Romney supports the 20 week limitation...the House tried to pass it for DC as a national test. Romney wants to repeal Roe v Wade...the House tried to do that. Romney wants to defund PP. The House tried to do that. Abortion is not on his social agenda as President? Horse Puckey!!!!!!!!
Take a real good look at opencongress.org and for yourself! If you do not know, Aye is YES and Nay is NO!
The President asks Congress time after time to pass the bills on jobs for Americans.
Nevertheless, time after Time the Republicans are saying NO! The Democrats are saying YES!
409 items found in the current session of Congress for "bills on jobs for Americans".
Today The Republican Party are the terrorists to American Today! All they can say is NO_NO_NO_NO_NO_NO_NO_NO_NO_NO!
ITS TIME WE the PEOPLE SAY Nay— Nay! VOTE THEM ALL OUT OFFICE and We the People Start with Nay! two face liar Mitt Romney.
. Bills Found 32 bills Votes by Senator Name Voted. opencongress.org
Sen. Daniel Akaka [D, HI] Aye
Sen. Lamar Alexander [R, TN] Nay
Sen. Kelly Ayotte [R, NH] Nay
Sen. John Barrasso [R, WY] Nay
Sen. Max Baucus [D, MT] Aye
Sen. Mark Begich [D, AK] Aye
Sen. Michael Bennet [D, CO] Aye
Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D, NM] Aye
Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D, CT] Aye
Sen. Roy Blunt [R, MO] Nay
Sen. John Boozman [R, AR] Nay
Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA] Aye
Sen. Scott Brown [R, MA] Nay
Sen. Sherrod Brown [D, OH] Aye
Sen. Richard Burr [R, NC] Nay
Sen. Maria Cantwell [D, WA] Aye
Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D, MD] Aye
Sen. Thomas Carper [D, DE] Aye
Sen. Robert Casey [D, PA] Aye
Sen. Saxby Chambliss [R, GA] Nay
Sen. Daniel Coats [R, IN] Nay
Sen. Thomas Coburn [R, OK] Nay
Sen. Thad Cochran [R, MS] Nay
Sen. Susan Collins [R, ME] Nay
Sen. Kent Conrad [D, ND] Aye
Sen. Chris Coons [D, DE] Aye
Sen. Bob Corker [R, TN] Nay
Sen. John Cornyn [R, TX] Nay
Sen. Michael Crapo [R, ID] Nay
Sen. Jim DeMint [R, SC] Nay
Sen. Richard Durbin [D, IL] Aye
Sen. Michael Enzi [R, WY] Nay
Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D, CA] Aye
Sen. Al Franken [D, MN] Aye
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D, NY] Aye
Sen. Lindsey Graham [R, SC] Nay
Sen. Charles Grassley [R, IA] Nay
Sen. Kay Hagan [D, NC] Aye
Sen. Thomas Harkin [D, IA] Aye
Sen. Orrin Hatch [R, UT] Nay
Sen. Dean Heller [R, NV] Nay
Sen. John Hoeven [R, ND] Nay
Sen. Kay Hutchison [R, TX] Nay
Sen. James Inhofe [R, OK] Nay
Sen. Daniel Inouye [D, HI] Aye
Sen. John Isakson [R, GA] Nay
Sen. Mike Johanns [R, NE] Nay
Sen. Ron Johnson [R, WI] Nay
Sen. Tim Johnson [D, SD] Aye
Sen. John Kerry [D, MA] Aye
Sen. Mark Kirk [R, IL] Nay
Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D, MN] Aye
Sen. Herbert Kohl [D, WI] Aye
Sen. Jon Kyl [R, AZ] Nay
Sen. Mary Landrieu [D, LA] Aye
Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D, NJ] Aye
Sen. Patrick Leahy [D, VT] Aye
Sen. Mike Lee [R, UT] Nay
Sen. Carl Levin [D, MI] Aye
Sen. Joseph Lieberman [I, CT] Nay
Sen. Richard Lugar [R, IN] Nay
Sen. Joe Manchin [D, WV] Aye
Sen. John McCain [R, AZ] Nay
Sen. Claire McCaskill [D, MO] Aye
Sen. Mitch McConnell [R, KY] Nay
Sen. Robert Menéndez [D, NJ] Aye
Sen. Jeff Merkley [D, OR] Aye
Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D, MD] Aye
Sen. Jerry Moran [R, KS] Nay
Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R, AK] Nay
Sen. Patty Murray [D, WA] Aye
Sen. Ben Nelson [D, NE] Nay
Sen. Bill Nelson [D, FL] Aye
Sen. Rand Paul [R, KY] Nay
Sen. Robert Portman [R, OH] Nay
Sen. Mark Pryor [D, AR] Aye
Sen. John Reed [D, RI] Aye
Sen. Harry Reid [D, NV] Aye
Sen. James Risch [R, ID] Nay
Sen. Pat Roberts [R, KS] Nay
Sen. John Rockefeller [D, WV] Aye
Sen. Marco Rubio [R, FL] Nay
Sen. Bernard Sanders [I, VT] Aye
Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY] Aye
Sen. Jefferson Sessions [R, AL] Nay
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D, NH] Aye
Sen. Richard Shelby [R, AL] Nay
Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME] Nay
Sen. Debbie Ann Stabenow [D, MI] Aye
Sen. Jon Tester [D, MT] Aye
Sen. John Thune [R, SD] Nay
Sen. Patrick Toomey [R, PA] Nay
Sen. Mark Udall [D, CO] Aye
Sen. Tom Udall [D, NM] Aye
Sen. David Vitter [R, LA] Nay
Sen. Mark Warner [D, VA] Aye
Sen. Jim Webb [D, VA] Aye
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI] Aye
Sen. Roger Wicker [R, MS] Nay
Sen. Ron Wyden [D, OR] Aye
Frank -
I Like your avatar.
The issue for me, is that John Boehner and the TP freshman campaigned on jobs, jobs, jobs, then once they got in, it was Obstruct, Obstruct, Obstruct.
This isn't any way for congress to act.
I also think over the last 20 years, Democrats have been more fiscally "conservative" than Republicans.
Salud
Poor "frank" thinks that we are actually dumb enough to buy the "fiscally conservative" brainwashed, teabagger crap. We all know that the "tea" party has nothing to do with finance and has everything to do with a fascist evangelical agenda.
Using Finland as a premier example for your rhetoric isn't very smart, "frank", given that Finland's socialism should be making your brain cell spin. Oh...nevermind...teabaggers have no idea what socialism is...
Shock -
Great post!
Is it socialism? Or Communism? Or Marxism,?
I forget.
It's a different "ism" each week.
How about Muslim-Brotherhoodism?
Salud
Thanks, Thomas
They're all rooted in imbecilism....and that's just not going to make it past the spell check...
Fiscal conservatives don't drive across bridges or use roads? But sending our kids to die in a foreign land is good eh? Goobers like frank so take a cue from your moniker a get real!
I wouldn't vote out any of the Democrats because they are the only ones who care about people who are not rich. Democrats are the only ones who want to help the country. Republicans are the sorry people who sign the pledge from Grover Norquist but it is only an excuse. They really don't want any revenue to come to the government. They should not get paid until they agree to revenue and cuts because they are paid by our taxes. These rotten republicans are some of the sorriest people in our government.
"Having read those comments from Governor Romney," McDonnell said of the Register interview, "what he was saying is, his overwhelming priority is going to be creating jobs, getting the economy back on track."
Yeah, that's exactly how anyone else would interpret this exchange too, Bob:
"REGISTER: Do you intend to pursue any legislation specifically regarding abortion?
ROMNEY: There's no legislation with regards to abortion that I'm familiar with that would become part of my agenda."
Of course that was about the economy. Oh, but wait - that wasn't the whole comment, and we don't want to take things out of context, now do we? Let's let Mitt finish flip-flopping his own flip-flop in the very next sentence:
"ROMNEY: There's no legislation with regards to abortion that I'm familiar with that would become part of my agenda. One thing I would change, however, which would be done by executive order, not by legislation, is that I would reinstate the Mexico City policy, which is that foreign aid dollars from the United States would not be used to carry out abortion in other countries. It's long been our practice here that taxpayer dollars are not to be used to fund abortion in this country. President Obama on the 10th day of his administration changed the Mexico City policy to say that abortion services were not prohibited in our foreign aid dollars. I would go back to the original so-called Mexico City policy."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/09/mitt-romney-abortion_n_1952780.html
So, to recap - his agenda doesn't include any LEGISLATION with regards to abortion, just BYPASSING the legislative branch and issuing executive orders. And we all know how bad executive orders are, right? But that's okay, 'cause he was really talking about "creating jobs". I mean that's what Governor McDonnell just said, right?
I know I have said this before,but Romney is worse than a flip flopper.He is one of those people that has a motto of do as I say,not as I do.He helped develop the wording in his son's contract with the surrogate mother that basically states his son and wife can abort the pregnancy at will.And Romney helped to pay for it.This guy is not fit to be our President.
Funny how the teabaggers also forget how much money Mittsy made in the abortion disposal business....
Maria-I know I have said this before,but Romney is worse than a flip flopper.He is one of those people that has a motto of do as I say,not as I do.He helped develop the wording in his son's contract with the surrogate mother that basically states his son and wife can abort the pregnancy at will.And Romney helped to pay for it.This guy is not fit to be our President.
There are several reports out about this. For a Party that would deny abortion's even in a class of rape,incest or health of the mother.This is a pretty disgusting double standard when its one of their own.
http://www.examiner.com/article/mitt-romney-paid-for-son-s-surrogate-abortion-contract-right-to-kill-fetus
Romney is a RINO and I've said before, he is gonna put the tea party in check. He is a fiscal conservative and a Umass Liberal on social issues.
Obama's full white twin brother!
1. Romney is not pro-life as he is pro-war. Romney is anti-abortion. 2. Transvaginal Gov McDonnell and Jindal support Romney not on the abortion stance ... that is the issue the GOP uses to stir up the masses, but rather they support Romney on his pro-war economics.
Hey Jinny McDowell....guess this time it's not JUST the economy!
Vote straight demo this year! You're pocketbook is at risk! or and so is your freedom to choose how you control you're own body!
Compared to the economy the Republicans left Obama, I think the economy looks pretty damn good..More than 5 million new jobs, unemployment under 8%.. A jobs bill in the House the Republicans refuse to pass that would create almost 2 million more jobs..Hmmm.. Why wouldn't the Right want to create jobs? At least Obama doesn't want to invade a womans' uterus like the Right is proposing..
Romney is just like the rest of the GOP. They keep saying its about jobs, but the only actions they have taken is on social issues. They want to stop allowing contraception and outlaw abortion. They've stated it over and over again.
Sure he won't. just like he hasn't changed his position on everything else.
oh well if they say he did not lie, then he did not lie. i think romney would have been better off without their help
Romney is just another Republican hypocrite....
didn't he also have the contract language written in his son's surrogate pregnancy clause that allows them to ABORT the pregnancy if they so desire... Just more of the same "do as I say, not as I do" leadership that all Americans have come to expect from Mittenz...
How many times are they going to have to defend exlax ETCH-A-SKETCH'S remarks!! They are CONSTANTLY HAVING TO DEFEND THIS JERK! You'd think they'd wise up and let him sink by himself! YOU CANNOT DEFEND SOMEONE WHO IS SO OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY & with the 99% American People! He's undefendable! You can't defend a LIAR! THEY FLIP-FLOP TOO MUCH!!!
Males, Males and more males discussing a choice that is NOT theirs to make.
Face it. You are and will always be merely sperm donors.
Stay out of decisions regarding my body. If the big imaginary friend for adults has a problem with my decision, then I will handle the consequences of my decision at a later date or station in life.
Rhonda----How can they subjugate women if women have the ultimate choice on whether or not to be pregnant ?
You see that is where in their belief birth control is against their Bible ....
It lays in the fact that they believe that Man is the master.....How can you be master if you are not in charge of the womb ?
Bottom Line : They are misogynists
RocknRhonda -
Thank you, Ronda.
You sound like my wife, my three sisters, and my mother.
You also sound like the President.
And that's why I'm voting for him.
Salud
Let us not forget the Akin/Paul Ryan philosophy regarding how the woman's body magically "shut's down" during a "legitimate rape"...which, of course, implies that if a woman is raped and becomes pregnant, it wasn't a "real" rape.
Not only do they feel that women are incapable of making their own decisions, but if a rapist is actually successful in impregnating his victim, they believe he is not guilty.
Paul Ryan's philosophy on rape? Make sure you get the job done completely.
These people are incredibly dangerous and have no place in civilized society.
Jindal + McDonnell + Romoney
Quite elementary - STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES.
Ever watch the Three Stooges?
Only in politics would two grown men spend their time clarifying or explaining what another grown man means. These people are all really something themselves.