Why social conservatives will support Romney and why Romney will win the nomination

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Why social conservatives should support Mitt Romney for president.

By James Bopp Jr.

Yet how is the sincerity of a conversion to be measured? There are two salient considerations in this regard: first, some defining moment that prompted a change of heart; second, the fact that deeds speak louder than words. Romney’s conversion exhibits both. First, Romney has had a life-changing event. It was when he was governor and researchers were proposing embryonic cloning at Harvard. As he recounts it, one of the researchers said that there “wasn’t a moral issue, because . . . they destroy the embryos at 14 days.” Romney said that “it struck me that we have so cheapened the value of human life in this country through our Roe v. Wade decision that someone could think that there is no moral issue to have racks and racks of living human embryos and then destroying them at 14 days.”

This was not a trivial matter for Romney and his family. As he told the New York Times at the time, “My wife has MS and we would love for there to be a cure for her disease and for the diseases of others. But there is an ethical boundary that should not be crossed.”

And Romney, as governor, acted on these convictions. He vetoed an embryonic cloning bill; he vetoed a bill that would allow the “morning after pill” to be acquired without a prescription on the grounds that it is an abortifacient; he vetoed legislation which would have redefined Massachusetts longstanding definition of the beginning of human life from fertilization to implantation; and he fought to promote abstinence education in the classroom. One should not underestimate the tremendous political price that Governor Romney paid in Massachusetts for these acts. Both conviction and courage are necessary for effective pro-life leadership, and Romney, in office, displayed both.

These actions as governor have lead leaders of the most important social conservative groups in Massachusetts, including Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Massachusetts Family Institute, and the Knights of Columbus, to observe that, while previous comments by Romney “are, taken by themselves, obviously worrisome to social conservatives including ourselves, they do not dovetail with the actions of Governor Romney from 2003 until now — and those actions positively and demonstrably impacted the social climate of Massachusetts.” They conclude that Romney “demonstrated his solid social conservative credentials by undertaking” these actions, and has therefore “proven that he shares our values, as well as our determination to protect them.”

which is how the Bush dynasty must designate nowadays since Junior has tanked. You can trump up those arguments for any brick in the road as far as I and they are concerned. The only real choice is the GOP establishment unless it is split- and it is not yet. You only have people who despair of Bush's nod and those who think they can weasel in or what the Bush's really want- a safe schlump totally and guilelessly dependent on them. One should better note WHY Bushes have not helped and have back-stabbed Guiliani and McCain and why they cannot be chosen for those reasons.

The other GOP wannabes are too weakened by corruption or extremism, epidemic in the Bush dynasty, to mount a serious challenge to the system. They can only hope it disappears, but it will not without the leadership they by nature cannot possibly attempt. Of course anyone attempting it could be easily brought down because of the Catch-22 by which Bush rallies the trapped exploiters of his mess.

And the Dems hope that the GOP will muster some responsibility or sense of self-survival for impeachment! More than the usual GOP tripe, the Bush dominated selection system demonstrates the octopus stranglehold not one of them can even imagine trying to escape. It is all based on the trap of long held lies all the GOP have committed themselves to in every core voting group and in every issue. Nor is their primary opportunity even partly endowed with the opportunity for a popular revolt that cannot gel except as rage, truculence and flight.

vast majority of Republicans. They have no principle and want power at any cost.

I agree that Romney will be beaten, but we will have to fight to the hilt regardless of who the nominee is. The Right Wing echo chamber is hard at work and the MSM is waiting for them to give the go ahead to anoint the GOP nominee the next President.