I mean, it's from 2008, but the man's only changed position four or five times since then, right? And you can tell the slant they're going for, but it still makes for some fascinating reading. Like under "Top Hits: Social Issues," you get
That's followed by "Executive Summaries," and then pages and pages (200 in all) of carefully sourced quotes and facts about the man - the last 6 pages just listing video that the campaign had available to it. But it's fascinating reading for a political buff like me.Abortion
- Romney says he changed his mind on abortion meeting with Harvard stem cell researcher – Romney claims the doctor said scientists “kill” embryos after 14 days, but doctor later said Romney “mischaracterized myposition.”
- Months after his “conversion,” Romney stated his commitment to upholding Massachusetts’ abortion laws and appointed pro-choice judge to state district court.
- In October 2005, Romney signed bill expanding family planning services, including abortion counseling and morning-after pill.
- In December 2005, Romney “abruptly ordered his administration to reverse course … and require Catholic hospitals to provide emergency contraception medication to rape victims.”
- Romney health insurance plan expanded access to abortion, required Planned Parenthood representative on state panel.
- Romney endorsed legalization of abortion pill RU-486 access during his 1994 Senate race and backed federal funding of abortion, saying “I think it’s important that people see me not as a pro-life candidate.”
- In 1994 and 2002, Romney confirmed his support for Roe v. Wade decision and forcefully positioned himself as pro-choice in 1994 Senate race, saying “you will not see me wavering on that.”
- Romney has refused to comment on bill pending in South Carolina legislature requiring that abortion doctors offer pregnant women option of viewing ultrasound
Hell, Romney himself ought to check it out; if nothing else, it can remind him about his position on the various topics this week.
I believe it was the great poet and philosopher Rabbie Burns himself who wrote:
O wad some Power the gift tae gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
From “The Twa Dogs”
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I’ve aften wonder’d, honest Luath, What sort o’ life poor dogs like you have; An’ when the gentry’s life I saw, What way poor bodies liv’d ava. Our laird gets in his rackéd rents, His coals, his kane, an’ a’ his stents: He rises when he likes himsel; His flunkies answer at the bell; He ca’s his coach’ he ca’s his horse; He draws a bonie silken purse, As lang’s my tail, whare, thro’ the steeks, The yellow letter’d Geordir keeks.
Frae morn to e’en it’s nought but toiling, At baking, roasting, frying, boiling; An’ tho’ the gentry first are stechin, Yet ev’n the ha’folk fill their pechan Wi’ sauce, ragouts, an’ sic like trashtrie, That’s little short o’ downright wastrie. Our whipper-in, wee, lastet wonner, Poor, worthless elf, it eats a dinner, Better than ony tenant-man His Honor has in a’ the lan’: An’ what poor cot-folk pit their painch in, I own it’s past my comprehension.
Luath
Trowth, Caesar, whyles they’re fash’t enough: A cotter howkin in a sheugh, Wi’ dirty stanes biggin a dyke, Baring a quarry, an’ sic like; Himsel, a wife, he thus sustains, A smyrtie o’ wee duddie weans, An’ nought but his han’-daurg, to keep ‘Them right an’ tight in thack an’ reap.
An’ when they meet wi’ sair disasters, Like loss o’health or want o’ masters, Ye maist wad think, a wee touch langer, An’ they maun starve o’ cauld and hunger: But how it comes, I never kent yet, They’re moistly wonderfu’ contented: An’ buirdly chiefs, an’ clever hizzies, Are bred in sic a way as this is.
The preceding was from Burns’s “The Twa Dogs” which, believe it or not, is pronounced the same as “two.” Capitalizations are meant to denote a new line in the stanza. The characters Caesar and Luath are dogs from a landed gentryman and his counterpart, a shepherd. Please ask if you are interested in obtaining a scan or an original edition of these very important collections of poetry.
FJ
Well, OK, then. Not sure what that has to do with Romney. As far as Burns goes, I probably prefer "Nine Inches Will Please A Lady."
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Romney would be insensitive to the plight of the poor, out of touch with the common man.
ReplyDeleteIt seems Mitt will say anything, even if it flatly contradicts what he said three minutes ago. And then he's apt to praise himself for his rock-solid, "severe" consistency over the years.
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