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As I write this article, I have to ask myself if I’m being impartial in my reporting. It’s not that I have to be impartial. It’s just that when I started this website and began writing, I told myself that I must be accurate and true to history. As a Mitt Romney supporter am I justifying everything that he has said or done and therefore I am blinded to his flip-flops? I say no. But you be the judge.

The liberal media and the Democratic National Committee are constantly trying to pin the flip-flop label on Romney. I read funny lines that they have written referring to his book “Turnaround” where they suggest he has had too many “turnarounds”.

Here’s another play on the olympics theme…

Of course, when it comes to verbal gymnastics on abortion McCain is an amateur while former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney deserves a gold medal. –Abortion Contortions, February 22, 2007

But Mitt Romney has always been pro-life.

Start by looking at these so called flip-flops from Mitt Romney’s perspective, and see it as if you were walking in his shoes over the past thirteen years as he climbed from citizen to senate candidate in 1994, to governor in 2003, to a presidential candidate today.

It was an unfortunate circumstance that Mitt Romney spent most of his later years in the state of Massachusetts where he began to think about getting into politics. He was a conservative living in the most liberal state in the entire United States aspiring to the nations highest office -as a Republican. Look at the impossible situation that he faced.

This is, after all, Massachusetts: Less than a sixth of the electorate is Republican –A Governor’s Race Better Than Sox Tickets, March 21, 2002

Democrats still hold 80 percent of the legislative seats in the Massachusetts House and Senate and 8 of the state’s 10 congressional billets. And according to polls, the GOP’s two congressional incumbents are vulnerable. — Bay State Party Machine Corrodes, October 17, 1994

How would he possibly make it? He applied his business acumen and looked at models of success.

It is clear that Romney approaches politics not as a crusade but as a business case study. He doesn’t run in elections, he competes in markets. –The CEO Candidate, February 26, 2007

In 1994, Mitt Romney saw that the 32 year incumbant Ted Kennedy was vulnerable.

Kennedy has been dogged by a series of dismal local media polls. Two taken late last week showed him in a statistical dead heat with GOP challenger Mitt Romney.

Republicans across the country are drooling. “When [Republicans] sit around and think about their dearest fantasies, they dream of beating Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts,” says William Schneider, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Insitute in Washington. “If Romney does it, he will instantly become a national player in the Republican party.” –Kennedy in Toughest Fight Ever, September 26, 1994

Massachusetts was and is a pro-choice state.

In 1994, the former management consultant knew his market. Running against icon Ted Kennedy in an intensely Democratic state, Romney knew there was no percentage in running as a right-wing alternative. So, he tried to get to Kennedy’s left on women’s and gay issues –The CEO Candidate, February 26, 2007

It’s called political posturing. Mitt Romney assured his constituency that he would not change the status-quo. But his heart was pro-life. He explained it like this…

“Many, many years ago, I had a dear, close family relative that was very close to me, that passed away from an illegal abortion. It is since that time my mother and my family have been committed to the belief that we can believe as we want, but we will not force our beliefs on others on that matter, and you will not see me wavering on that.” –Romney’s abortion views first shaped by personal, then clinical, February 7, 2007

“In his 1994 Senate run, Romney was endorsed by Massachusetts Citizens for Life and kept their endorsement, even though he declared himself to be pro-choice, because he supported parental-consent laws, opposed taxpayer-funded abortion and mandatory abortion coverage under a national health insurance plan, and was against the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have codified Roe v. Wade by federal statute.” –Abortion Wars, February 7, 2007

Romney did not win against Kennedy. But he tried again. This time for governor in 2002 using the lessons he had learned previously. He won. He kept his promise to the people of Massachusetts not to take away a woman’s right to choose.

((YouTube embedded video of Romney discussing his record.))

After his successful stint as governor, Mitt Romney has a stepping stool to the presidency. He is free to re-posture on abortion, which he has done. He explains his reposturing by simply saying “I was wrong back then”.

Mitt Romney’s campaign positions are now in line with his morals. I’m certain he will not change.

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