Comments about ‘Romney rips Obama on abortion’

Will the real Mitt please stand up? Is the real Mitt the one who supported abortion rights in the 1990s or the one who doesn't support them now? I guess I'm disoriented....

and will the real Oh Please just lay down and go to sleep...you'll feel much less "disoriented" in the morning

I don't have a problem with Mitt changing his position on abortion. But I do have a problem with how be basically attacks those, like Obama, who hold the same view as he once did.

I'm pretty sure he explained his views and the reasons for his change in position ad nausium in the Republican primary campaign.

...or are you just trying to discredit the man by painting him as a hypocrite and supposing the uneducated masses will take your word for it?

One word sums this guy up, hypocrite.

Though I do not always align with Mitt on his policies, I do respect him as a capable politician who has potential to do our nation good. That being said, he is currently playing to the Reich Wing with such a disdain for dignity it is difficult to hold him in high regard.

Romney's finally saw the light. Is that a bad thing?

The real Mitt has been apparent for the past two years. You obviously haven't lived in Massachusetts if you think an abortion opponent can be elected to ANY office in that liberal bastion. "Secular-progressives" control every aspect of that state.

Would it have been better for Mitt to have been defeated as Massachusetts Governor, or for him to compromise his principles? It is your call.

Haven't you ever changed your mind when you've found a better way, or found you were wrong? Aren't we allowed to change our minds? Thank goodness we are allowed. It takes a big person to admit they made a mistake and be willing to change their attitude.

don't bring up the flip-flopper charge again. When Romney became governor he was able to show how conservative he is, opposing gay marriage and wholesale abortion in Massachusetts. I wish people would stop attacking him because of things he said in the campaign against Ted Kennedy. Nobody could have mounted a credible campaign against Teddy without appearing to be moderate on touchstone issues in the people's republic. However, once he became governor his true character came through. The same could be said of Huntsman, who did exactly the opposite, portraying himself as a conservative on touchstone issues like illegal immigration and then moving the other direction once he got elected.

"Romney criticizes Obama on abortion"?

I also don't like Obama's position on abortion, however

Romney was "pro choice" for as much of his life as it suited him politically. Shortly before his run for the presidency, he became pro life.

He says he didn't think it through until the time of his switch, I find that hard to believe, if so he is rather shallow in the face of a halocaust.

Mr. Romney, how is it that it took this long in your life, until you came to the realization that Abortion is wrong?

If you always did realize it, then you ignored it for political purposes.

If you really did recently come to this realization, then you come across as a shallow person, too involved in their political career to think instrospectively about issues of the day.

Another possibility is that you just switch when ever it suits you for political purposes.

In short, your criticising anybody on this issue comes across as unseemly.

I am against wholesale abortion, but am uncomfortable with opposing Obama's plan to stimulate the economy.

The Republicans have to accept a huge part of the blame for failing to establish control systems that got us in the financial debacle we are in.

I was a classmate of Mitt at BYU. I admire many things he has accomplished. . . and I think he needs to give Obama's stimulus plan a chance.

Last time I checked the economy was in the worst slump we have seen in thirty years. If you don't like Obama's plan, contribute a better alternative with specific details.

I like the idea of investing in infrastructure and education.

How ironic that a leading member of the political party that got the country into such a mess has already begun criticizing the one who is doing his best to solve the problems. You're politics at its worst, Mitt, and no longer credible.

Who cares what Mitt Romney previously supported. He now stands against abortion. Who made the rule that you can't change your mind on a position? Don't you ever change your mind on anything important? One of the biggest complaints against George Bush is that he was so hard-headed that he would never change his mind on any decisions. But of course if he had changed his mind, he would have been called out for that immediately.

It sounds like "Oh, please" has never changed his mind on anything--that he's never made a mistake. In reality, he's just written to poke fun, instead of attempting to charitably deal with the real issues of life and death. I would encourage all of us to put a higher priority on the sanctity of the lives of unborn infants.

Mitt should be our President. Obama is going to get us into a horrible mess. Sending money to other nations to fund abortions is absurd. Also taking the rights to refuse to perform abortions from the medical profession should be protested from every state in this nation.

Mitt was the only good choice we had during elections. Too bad so many were blinded to Obama's true colors. I wasn't.

Obama is a DEMOCRAT. Their party supports abortion rights on the whole, even if individual members differ in their level of support for it. So for Obama to support a pro-choice or abortion measure isn't extreme or wildly liberal. It's par for the course for a Democratic president, just as an anti-abortion measure is for a Republican one. Get a grip, find out which side of issues you are REALLY on, and make informed comments to the press next time.

Saying you think there are times when aborting a baby should be an option, as when the life of the mother is in danger, is now considered a full-blown support for abortion as birth control?

Congratulations to the reporter who wrote this article. It should be enshrined in the Smithsonian, being the first article ever that did not call the person criticizing HRH Obama a racist.

I would correct my above comment to "putting the highest priority on the lives of unborn infants." When we remember the weakest of us all (namely the unborn), we are remembering all of us. We are remembering that we all have weaknesses and that we all can succeed.