Interesting South Carolina interview with Romney

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The State, a South Carolina newspaper, published an interview with Mitt Romney that is interesting and worth reading. Romney says he has evolved into a “pro-life” candidate and is a conservative. He addresses directly the issue of whether or not people will vote for a Mormon. I like his answers on all of these issues and personally believe his views on pro-life issues have sincerely changed with the times. Mine have changed in the same way his have, so I find the evolution believable. But I’m sure the Bloggernacle will manage to drum up a few skeptics.

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Geoff B graduated from Stanford University (class of 1985) and worked in journalism for several years until about 1992, when he took up his second career in telecommunications sales. He has held many callings in the Church, but his favorite calling is father and husband. Geoff is active in martial arts and loves hiking and skiing. Geoff has five children and lives in Colorado.

6 thoughts on “Interesting South Carolina interview with Romney”

  1. Good post Geoff. I don’t think Romney’s position has really changed, just the label he’s putting on it, but I have no problem with that. Romney grew up in a liberal Republican home in a wealthy Detroit suburb and in the mainstream LDS tradition that we don’t impose our morality on others. Hence his past anti-abortion but pro-choice position. Similarly, I consider myself pro-life, but would be very reluctant to criminalize early pregnancy abortions where no one can show me that the unborn child is suffering in any physical way. I just don’t see the rationale for government intervention in such a matter. I also would never want to return to the days when a women showed up a hospital seeking treatment after a botched illegal abortion and being refused treatment until she named the abortionist and the father of the aborted child. So, many would say I’m pro-choice until the unborn child can feel physical pain. But I just can’t stomach the label because it implies I’m pro-abortion. I think Romney switching labels is a smart move and doesn’t imply any fundamental change in his outlook.

  2. Well, for what it’s worth you two may have brought me to the point of giving Romney the benefit of the doubt on abortion. You GOPers out there may have yourself a pretty decent candidate there. Though I think he’s still a bit green politically, he’s had a really good education up there in MA–better than the rest of the 2008 GOP field has had over the last few years.

  3. Good interview–good answers. Thx for the link.

    I’ve met the man–he’d be a great candidate–but he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in outer darkness of becoming the GOP nominee, let alone winning the presidency.

  4. I’d really like to know his views on Social Security, the war in Iraq and on terrorism, his ideas on free trade and corporate welfare, education etc. These are issues on which I am likely to vote a man in or out for president.

  5. Not the threadjack, but I question the “mainstream LDS tradition [where] we don’t impose our morality on others”. If anything, the LDS tradition, once we got a toehold into being accepted, the Church’s approach is to impose our morality wherever possible.

  6. Queuno,

    Tell that to all the Mormons in Vegas or in rural Nevada counties with legal prostitution or Marriott Inc. Now my flippancy aside, you may indeed be correct, but I was speaking more about the 1960’s era Romney grew up in when his Dad was CEO of AMC, Governor of Michigan and in Nixon’s cabinet, etc.

    The “free agency and how to enforce it” wing may have a large following, particularly at BYU and includes many GAs, but it isn’t mainstream tradition, at least not yet IMO.

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