Slick Willard Strikes Again

Allot of liberals, bloggers or not, think social conservatives are a bunch ignorant mouth breathing yahoos.  I don't agree with that, but apparently, Mitt Romney does think social conservatives are a bunch of mouth breathing yahoos.

He believes it so much he doesn't think they're capable of mastering that new fangled "Google" thing. And he can just lie to them and deny he's ever been a pro-choice politician.  Unfortunately for him, the guys at RedState don't like being lied to (by anyone other than W, I guess):

"I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time when my Mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a U.S. Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years that we should sustain and support it, and I sustain and support that law and the right of a woman to make that choice."
-Mitt Romney in a 1994 Senatorial debate

"I respect and will fully protect a woman's right to choose. That choice is a deeply personal one, and the women of our state should make it based on their beliefs, not mine and not the government's."
-Mitt Romney in a 2002 GOP acceptance speech

"I've never called myself pro-choice."
-Mitt Romney in a 2006 Redstate interview

In his latest interview with RedState, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney responds to a question about his abortion position by saying that he's never adopted the label "pro-choice."

That's all well and good. Mitt Romney wants to be called pro-life. I'd like to be the King of all Londinium and wear a shiny hat.

But let's not kid ourselves: there is no substantive difference between the position labeled "pro-choice," and declaring your support for "the right to choose." And that is something that Mitt Romney has done repeatedly over the course of his political career. To say otherwise is to tell a lie.

Mitt Romney tries to justify his position in the interview by stating that he's always been personally opposed to abortion, but did not want to impose his personal views on the populace. Even if that's true, consider this: by Mitt Romney's definition, Ted Kennedy isn't pro-choice either.

Maybe he thinks the pro0life activists will be impressed by his Clintonian parsing.  But anyone thinking of supporting Romney for President should be prepared to be thrown over the side as soon as they are not convenient, he already did it to a whole state.