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...Romney's approach might be called "Today is the first day of the rest of your campaign." In short, he has flipped. As recently as 2002 his support for abortion rights was "unequivocal." Now he holds the opposite view with equal firmness. The firmness is good, but just a dab of equivocation wouldn't hurt. To go from one unequivocal extreme to the other reflects a mind that is more concerned about being in the right place than about why this is the right place...
...second Republican debate, on May 15, Romney tried repositioning his earlier pro-choice views as a mass of quivering equivocation. He claimed he was always "personally pro-life." Then, as Governor of Massachusetts, dealing with issues such as "embryo farming," he changed his mind and decided that Roe v. Wade "cheapened the value of human life...
...embryo farming" an actual issue in Massachusetts while Romney was Governor? Well, maybe. Romney's problem is that flip-flops use up a lot of stored credit and goodwill, and he has been to that storage closet too often lately on other matters, such as gun control...
...Giuliani's alleged straight talk seems even more dubious than Romney's apparent duplicity. First, Giuliani is not really standing firm. He's adjusting his position as much as he dares, and then he's standing firm. He used to support federal funding for abortion. Now he doesn't. And now, like Romney, he has been personally opposed to abortion all along. In the second Republican debate, he referred glibly to "millions and millions of Americans who are of as good conscience as we are, who make a different choice on abortion." Antiabortion Republicans watching may have thought, Whoa! What...
...back to John F. Kennedy's famous speech to the Protestant ministers of Houston, in which Kennedy essentially offered voters a deal: If you won't allow my religion to affect the way you vote, I won't allow my religion to affect the way I govern. Giuliani and Romney both want that deal...