AMERICAblog Elections has a document showing Mitt Romney professing his support for Roe v Wade and Medicaid-funded abortions in 2002. Romney is now claiming that he's adamantly pro-life, hates Roe v Wade, and is 100% against Medicaid funded abortions. And I suppose that is the convenient position of the day, just as Romney's pro-life bona fides will get thrown out the window if and when he becomes the GOP candidate and decides he needs to move to the left again.
Romney reminds me of the time I overheard a certain GOP Senator talking with his staffers as they came out of an elevator in the Senate Hart building back in the early 90s. I was in another elevator and the doors had just opened - the folks in front of me got out - and I, and another kid, just stood there waiting for the doors to close (I was going one floor up). Right before our doors closed, this Republican Senator, who had an office near ours, briskly walks by, followed by a coterie of staffers, and one staffer says to him earnestly: "remember Senator, today you're pro-choice." The kid next to me and I just looked at each other and burst out laughing.
Remember Mitt, today you're pro-life.
