Brownback Campaign Now Rips Romney on Abortion
June 14, 2007
John McCain has a tag team partner. Sam Brownback, welcome to the cage match. It's now Romney vs McCain and Brownback when it comes to the abortion issue. As you may know, McCain's campaign absolutely torpedoed Romney when they released a new YouTube video and all but said that Romney's pro-life conversion was a farce. If you missed it, read about it here.
Anyhow, now Sam Brownback's campaign has piled on. Their latest press release is titled:
"Romney Pro-Life Conversion Story Proven False"
The release details Romney's changing position on abortion through the years. Then Martin Gillespie, political director of Brownback for President says the following:
"One would think that Mitt Romney is in training for an Olympic gold medal in verbal gymnastics, as his various political contortions on abortion are stunning in their timing and flexibility. The best advice for Mitt Romney comes from Mark Twain: 'Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.'"
What is the Romney campaign's reaction to these comments? The Brody file just received this from Kevin Madden, spokesman for Mitt Romney.
"Governor Romney is firmly pro-life and s proud of his pro-life beliefs and the actions he took as governor to protect the sanctity of life. Campaigns that continue to attack Governor Romney would be better off engaging voters on substantive ideas and our differences with the Democrats, rather than lashing out at fellow Republicans with angry attacks."
Romney's campaign has had enough of all of this. They are sick and tired of defending the Governor something they believe has no merit. They say this is very simple; he was pro-choice, now he's pro-life. Get over it. Romney was on Michael Medved's radio program yesterday where he defends himself against the You Tube McCain attack. Listen here.
MEDVED: Well, you're enjoying the campaign, I know, but you must not enjoy it when you're being attacked on your abortion record as governor of Massachusetts apparently from your friend, John McCain.
GOV. ROMNEY: Well, you know, I guess politics can get a little testy if you're having a difficult time yourself, and I, you know, I've been very fortunate that I've had a great response to people I met across the country, and I know there are some who would like me to apologize for having become pro-life, but that is my position, and I'm not going to apologize for it. I guess Senator McCain's team went up with a portion of a press conference of mine saying "See, he's pro-choice," but actually, as you hear the rest of the press conference, which he does not put in his release, nor on YouTube, the rest of the press conference I explain why I am vetoing a stem cell measure because it doesn't respect the sanctity of human life. So he neglected that portion of the press conference
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