According to The New York Times Caucus blog, John McCain’s oppo research team has circulated this YouTube video of Mitt Romney appearing to voice support for abortion rights as late as May of 2005 to the press.
In the video, Romney says:
I am absolutely committed to my promise to maintain the status quo with regards to laws relating to abortion and choice and so far I’ve been able to successfully do that. And my personal philosophical views about this issue are not something that would do anything other than distract from what I think is a more critical agenda.
Watch it here:
The reason this is significant is that the statement comes a full six months after Romney’s much-ballyhooed conversion from pro-choice to anti-choice in Nov. 2004. But the Romney campaign says there is more context here and so first, they released one smackdown of a statement:
It is very troubling that the McCain campaign would attack the governor s pro-life stance by trying to alter the context of a statement made at a news conference where he made a passionate case for his veto of stem cell legislation that showed a level of disregard for the sanctity of human life. The McCain campaign s motives are obviously borne of desperation. Their actions are both sad and unfortunate.
But they didn’t stop there. They also distributed a YouTube video of their own, a longer piece from that same press conference where Romney speaks in more depth about the stem cell bill he vetoed, which was the purpose of the press conference.
I gotta say I think this round goes to Romney for giving as good as he got but still appearing to take the high road. While it’s good to see the McCain camp getting down with the tubes, the move does smack a bit of desperation. Of course, if I was running John McCain’s campaign right now, I’d be desperate too.
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It’s weird that they’d post his official response on youtube because Romney endorses the congressional Democratic stem cell bill that’s been vetoed by Bush. I was under the impression that Romney was now opposed to that bill, (which would constitute another flip-flop).
Left by Kombiz Lavasany
June 13, 2007 at 7:07pm