Why Romney Didn't Get the Right to Life Endorsement
November 15, 2007
The Romney campaign may be disappointed because they didn’t get the endorsement from National Right to Life but maybe the organization had a look at the following videotape. If you go about three and a half minutes in, Romney is seen distancing himself from being endorsed by Massachusetts Citizens for Life during a debate while he was running for Governor in 2002. He didn’t want any part of that endorsement at the time. Watch the video here.
This video has been out before but I bring it up because in it, he’s speaking directly to the endorsement issue and arguing vigorously against it. This is what is known as "political baggage". It also speaks directly to why Romney has some problems with pro-lifers, especially at the grassroots level. For them, it’s not that he was pro-choice. It’s that he argued so forcefully for the position. I know he has some big pro-life names behind him (Paul Weyrich, James Bopp, Jim Talent, and many more) but his recent conversion simply bothers some. That’s a pretty big reason why some key Evangelical leaders haven’t come out and endorsed him.
Romney wants so bad to be the clear choice for social conservatives but it hasn’t been so simple. Fred Thompson’s endorsement is a slap in the face and Huckabee’s surge in Iowa WITHOUT any TV advertising is another signal too that Romney still has some work to do.
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