TRANSCRIPT:
"Hannity & Colmes"
Fox News
May 7, 2007
FOX NEWS' ALAN COLMES: "Can you help us understand what specifically it was that made you change your view on that?"
GOVERNOR ROMNEY: "First, what I found interesting is, had I been pro-life and then changed to pro-choice, no one would ask the question."
FOX NEWS' SEAN HANNITY: "That's a great point."
GOVERNOR ROMNEY: "But it's – if you go in the other direction, as I have and as Ronald Reagan did and Henry Hyde and George Herbert Walker Bush, it's like the media can't get enough of how – why did you change?"
COLMES: "People think because it's an election year conversion."
GOVERNOR ROMNEY: "But no one ever asks that if they go the other way. There's always, like well, you've come to the side of light. The truth is, being governor and before I was governor, this is something I thought about, we discussed as a family, I discussed with my staff. We talked about the concerns.
"And the point where it sort of went over the edge for me and, of course, it's not just – didn't just come up for the first time but went over the edge is we were having this debate on cloning. And I could see where the Roe v. Wade devaluation of human life had led. It had led to a point where people were beginning to say, 'Hey, now we're going to start cloning embryos.' It's like wait a second. This really is going too far."
I spoke recently with one of my friends who was IN THE ROOM when Governor Romney had that meeting about cloning--when he decided to become politically pro-life (since he had always been personally pro-life). She spoke about the moment with great respect and reverence. This was a man who realized he needed to change, and then did so based on his concrete values.
Don't we want that in a President?
Apart from being the worst interviewer on television, Alan Colmes is just amazingly bitter about his perception of conservative fallacies. Why does Colmes care if Romney flip-flopped on Abortion??
That is why I love Romney's quote: "had I been pro-life and then changed to pro-choice, no one would ask the question."
Welcome to the wild world of intellectual dishonesty. It happens in both parties. And, one of the reasons I like Romney, is that I think he is intellectually honest.
I mean, who else would cite "Battlefield Earth" as their favorite book?*
That is all.
Horatio
* Incidentally, I spoke with Mitt's brother-in-law on the phone a few days later, and he assured me that "Battlefield Earth" really was a rather compelling fiction. I'm not sure if it qualifies to be added to the stack of books on my night stand (Current read: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln). But, it is funny that his family seems to really enjoy that book.
Hey... if I were running for President, I wouldn't want people to know that one of my favorite movies is Drop Dead Gorgeous or A Pyromaniac's Love Story. That doesn't make them any less-brilliant movies!
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I haven't checked in in a long time! Sorry for my hiatus from your blog. I've been doing some more reading on Mitt, and I am starting to really appreciate what he says. More than anything, I really appreciate his candor. He seems very upfront about what he believes and why he does the things he does.
On a different note, did you see the Newsweek featuring him this week? If so, what did you think of the story on him, as well as on how religion could play a role in why he would (or wouldn't) be elected? (I especially loved (*cough*) the picture of the tabernacle that was described as church members meeting in our largest church, the Salt Lake temple. :D)
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