Mitt's Abortion Etch-a-Sketch

[bushisanidiot]

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/10/mitts_abortion_etch_a_sketch/

"Here is a new way for Mitt Romney to express an ever-contorted position on abortion rights: “There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda,” he told the Des Moines Register today. Not long afterwards, there was an apparent reversal, with his campaign spokeswoman telling the National Review’s Katrina Trinko that Romney would “of course support legislation aimed at providing greater protections for life.” This may not have been an error at all; it may be a semi-clumsy entry in Romney’s long history of telling people what he thinks they want to hear, even if it contradicts what he said before. What’s clear is how blatantly false the statement is on the facts.

Let’s start with “there’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with,” a crafty piece of legalese from a man who doesn’t like to talk about his Harvard law degree. Maybe Mitt Romney has never heard of the 59 votes his running mate, Paul Ryan, has cast against abortion and reproductive rights in 13 years in the House, or the 38 bills Ryan co-sponsored on the same! Maybe he has no idea that if Republicans take the presidency and the Senate, there’ll be very little to stop the uterus-obsessed denizens of the House from getting their dream agenda, including restrictions on abortion, Planned Parenthood funding, and contraceptive access. Perhaps he doesn’t remember that he himself told Personhood supporter Mike Huckabee that he would “absolutely” support a human life amendment. And there’s a chance Romney missed his running mate saying just a couple of weeks ago that the birth control benefit in the Affordable Care Act would be gone on “day one… I can guarantee you that.” (Then again, why stop there when you’ve already promised to repeal the entire thing?)

Somehow I doubt it, though."

[TexasCPA]

1. He was pro choice in 1994

Or was that multiple choice? He stance on abortion is whatever will get him elected.

[rock]

2. Instructions for the proper use of an Etch-a-sketch

http://www.funny2.com/etch.htm