Romney 'Planning To Take Aim At Single Motherhood'

The Boston Globe   |  MICHAEL LEVENSON   |   October 18, 2007 11:31 AM


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Mitt Romney yesterday offered a preview of his closely watched speech tomorrow before a summit of Christian conservative leaders in Washington, saying that he planned to take aim at the problem of single motherhood.

"Number one on my list is we have to teach our kids that before they have babies, they should get married," Romney told supporters at a hotel here. "Marriage comes first."

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- progressivegreg See Profile I'm a Fan of progressivegreg permalink

Hey Mittens?? How many of those "single mothers" lost their husbands (or single fathers who lost their wives) in the GOP war for oil in the mideast?? What a slimy group of losers!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:55 AM on 10/22/2007
- Justis See Profile I'm a Fan of Justis permalink

Slimy bottom feeder.
He'll get the nomination.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:42 PM on 10/21/2007
- ilvlamp See Profile I'm a Fan of ilvlamp permalink

The neocons continue their war on single mothers, like they did with the veto of SCHIP.

The religious right believes in saving the "traditional family" by trying to legislate their version of morality.

Can we please get the bible thumpers out of our democracy!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:14 PM on 10/21/2007
- normathumb See Profile I'm a Fan of normathumb permalink

Maybe he should take aim at absent fatherhood.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:10 AM on 10/21/2007
- psgoodguy See Profile I'm a Fan of psgoodguy permalink

this lends a whole new meaning to the term 'idiot mittens', doesn't it?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:30 PM on 10/19/2007
- Chrisallalone See Profile I'm a Fan of Chrisallalone permalink

Man, oh man. Sometimes I try to give this guy a break -- he's a competent manager and all that, he's not necessarily the guy who raises his hand to say he doesn't "believe" in evolution.

And then he 0PENS HIS MOUTH. And all the pander flies out.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:51 PM on 10/19/2007
- ReasonIsMyReligion See Profile I'm a Fan of ReasonIsMyReligion permalink

That single spouse thing could use revisiting too.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:02 PM on 10/19/2007
- katlade See Profile I'm a Fan of katlade permalink

Why is always single mothers being singled out? They did not get pregnant by themselves, so there must be a single father out there for every single mother unless of course the father is already married to someone else.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:46 PM on 10/19/2007
- psgoodguy See Profile I'm a Fan of psgoodguy permalink

read it again. he wasn't talking about any single mother but 'inner city' single mothers i.e. black. he's using the republican code to his white audience.

i can hear them all now clucking and tsking at all those single black baby momma.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:23 PM on 10/19/2007
- VOTER See Profile I'm a Fan of VOTER permalink

Mittens needs to visit several hospital emergency rooms and meet the large number of WHITE single moms waiting for healthcare for their children
Or he can watch a few Jerry Springer shows............

Healthcare should include information about preventing pregnancy. Right, Mittens?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:12 AM on 10/21/2007
- zendem1 See Profile I'm a Fan of zendem1 permalink

These Republican clowns keep raising the whacko bar. It's tag-team crazy.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:47 PM on 10/19/2007
- bdl0715 See Profile I'm a Fan of bdl0715 permalink

Are we going to hear Dan Quayle's Murphy Brown speech again? While I agree you shouldn't have babies until you are mature enough and can financially take care of them, things happen unexpectantly. I don't see where this is a presidential issue. Morals should be a family and church issue, not government.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:52 AM on 10/19/2007
- LenP See Profile I'm a Fan of LenP permalink

How are you going to legislate THAT, Mitt? Answer: You Can't.

It's an obvious ploy to rally "values voters" to his cause.

What a phoney slime-ball this guy is.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:50 AM on 10/19/2007
- THISTLE See Profile I'm a Fan of THISTLE permalink

These "pro-life" guys are amazing. They want
women to have babies, they don't want, can't
support, but as soon as those babies are
ACTUALLY BORN - this is the crowd that cuts
off all aid, to that REAL baby, calls the
Mother all kinds of vile names.
And they attack the women if they are NOT
married. They ignore the millions of single
Mothers who get up every day and go to work
to support their children, then come home and
care for those children alone - without anyone
to help them. There are millions of single
Mothers doing fantastic jobs of raising their
children, working at often low paying jobs
and having no one to help them.
These self-appointed moralists like Romney
and his "Christian Values Crowd" are the
most vile, disgusting immoral crowd on the
planet.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:23 AM on 10/19/2007
- TheQuestion See Profile I'm a Fan of TheQuestion permalink

That's it keep raising the retirement age and pretty soon no one will live long enough to collect - no problem.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:18 AM on 10/19/2007
- bobtr900 See Profile I'm a Fan of bobtr900 permalink

Well he is a Mormon, like Glen Beck, why don't they marry all the single mothers.

I know, snarky and a cheap shot.

Romney's other proposal is totally dangerous and smacks of communism( but don't Mormons like communal living) he proposes funding only for students going into certain occupations. Russia does that and probably also China.

That proposal is deeply frightening, but then what else should we expect from the Republicans. They want to end public education. They did make it much tougher to get Pell (created by Clayborne Pell, D-RI, a liberal) Grants. That way only the rich kidscan get an education. They just really want to end higher education. But fortunately the Dems restored the original Pell Grant conditions.

The cowardly and unpariotic attack on America by the right wingers and their religions, Catholic(my religion) and evangelical fundies just goes on and on.

Oh and btw, the use of churchs as courts has started in Akron, Ohio. How soon will your church be converted into a courtroom? Ehh?

The evil and dark shadow of Rpublican Totalitarianism is spreading it's ugly wings over America. How long will it be before America is conveted into a Republican Totaltarian Theo-Corporate country?

Not long now...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:15 AM on 10/19/2007
- pangardenguru See Profile I'm a Fan of pangardenguru permalink

I am so sick of the moral police. why cant these candidates think of ANYTHING but morals and sex? Forget this nonsense and get to the real business of fixing what's wrong and stop constantly worrying over whether it's moral to do this or that or what kind of sex is ok and what is not......it is ridiculous. and besides, Mitt Romney does not have the authority to judge anyone's morals anyway. This is depraved, these republicans, just obsessed with sex and moral and jesus....GROW UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:35 AM on 10/19/2007
- gopSTEALSyourTAXmoney See Profile I'm a Fan of gopSTEALSyourTAXmoney permalink

Yes, this stupid "morals" stuff won't wash now. Romney is an idiot who thinks he can lecture on morals and catapult himself into the Presidency. People won't buy it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:08 PM on 10/19/2007
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