Romney Returns: Attacks Obama On Abortion

HOT SPRINGS, Va. — Republican Mitt Romney, a potential candidate for the White House in 2012, accused President Barack Obama on Friday of answering to the "most extreme wing of the abortion lobby." Even if the administration "will say nothing on behalf of the child waiting to be born, we must take the side of life," the former Massachusetts governor told House Republicans at a weekend retreat, according to his prepared remarks.

The GOP lawmakers gathered two days after voting unanimously against a White House-backed economic stimulus bill, and Romney praised them for their opposition.

He said the $819 billion measure that passed the Democratic-controlled House was a plan to "spend and borrow with reckless abandon."

That approach could worsen the current economic crisis, he said, adding, "we could precipitate a worldwide crisis of confidence in America, leading to a run on the dollar ... or hyperinflation that wipes out family savings and devastates the middle class."

Romney dropped out of the presidential race last year after losing several key primaries to Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the Republican who ran against Obama in the fall.

As a candidate, Romney worked to shed an image as a moderate former governor, and his speech touched on numerous conservative themes. Romney campaigned for governor of Democratic-leaning Massachusetts as a supporter of abortion rights _ only to switch sides on that issue in time for the GOP presidential race.

His reference to abortion followed Obama's decision earlier in the week to permit federal funding to go to international organizations that perform such operations. A ban on such funding had been in effect during the administration of former President George W. Bush.

Romney also questioned Obama's decision to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, which the Bush administration built to hold detainees in the war on terror.

The former governor said some of those released have made appearances in videotapes released by al-Qaida, and asked where Obama intended to send accused terrorists who are let go in the future.

"Will he send them to nations that will release them to kill Americans?" Romney said. "Or will he send them to U.S. prisons to infect our own criminal population?"

Comments

[Leslib]

Mr. Romney, When you are physically able to have an abortion, then we can discuss the pros and cons. Until then, shut up.

[Forest]

Mitt's business sense doesn't spill favorably into his social judgement.

[penjai]

Mitt Romney adopted all of his children...he puts his money where his mouth is. just like Rudy Guiliani!!

[AHMIowa]

And we care about this guy - why? He's got the spine of a white flag, twisting whichever way the winds are blowing.

And gee - which party spent $350 Billion and doesn't have a clue where it went? Don't think it was the Dems....

[Lucy0808]

This man is just an opportunist and is willing to throw women under a bus to exploit a wedge issues. To call the majority of women who support these full-service family planning programs "extreme" is truely insulting, but worse is lying about what these programs actually do. Nothing but hyperbole from the Republicans on this topic. For shame.

The best out come is to increase the funding of full-service programs that support both wide availability of cheap contraceptives and effective family planning education. This works to dramatically lower the rate of unwanted pregnancies and make abortion rare and safe. It is a win win for all people on both sides of the issue. The only ones who disagree are those that want women at home barefoot and pregnant all the time the "natural way of god" without access to birth control.

[btrim]

Barf on mittens the dog tort urer.

[LADY2CNTX]

I'm so sick of people that don't have a UTERUS talking about Abortion. My body . . . my decision!

[SDSL]

Absolutely true! And remember the famous saying: if men had babies, abortion would be a sacrament. Even in the Mormon church!

[longislandlol]

OK --if the Steelemitts go into this territory--they can wait a generation to get back into elected offices

[hortonhearsawho2]

Which biblical line did he fiddle with on that last line...

[timbonotes]

Good ole Max Headroom! He's the energizer dummy. Puleez!...someone put out that battery!

[InfosolutionWiz]

HAHAHA, So True!!

[Forest]

Dividers:
McCain
Romney
Limbaugh

Peacemakers:
Obama
Biden
Mitchell

[InfosolutionWiz]

YOU Are Right On The Money!! Romney and is clan A Bunch Of Sour Puss GOP Loosers!

[spiritpony1]

your opinion, flip-flopping mitt----when you were Mass. gov., you had no problem w/ women making THEIR OWN choices, but, then, that was a liberal state;; hey, you probably think the So. Cal. woman who had octuplets in addition to her 6 other chilren was fine; guess you don't even think her tubes should be tied. (I am a mother, I will say what I want about this sort of thing----I love and had lovely children-----I believe in FAMILY PLANNING, hello------) I guess if you find out that So. Cal. woman is on welfare (probably), you're still coooooool w/ it????

[lennix]

mitt hollywood romney give me a break we are moving forward not backwards they just don't get it

[Giada]

Uphold and defend the Constitution ....

It's what I need and want in public office. Romney doesn't qualify, his decisions are influenced by his Mormon beliefs.

[gisellestwocents]

I was just wondering what Mitt had to say about economic stimulus. I do NOT care about legislating what women do with their own bodies or who wants to couple with whom...

MOVE ON REPUBLICANS!!!