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| Wednesday, January 18, 2012 |
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| Romney needs to address pro-life forum absence |
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Today I received a newsletter from a conservative outfit I track. One of the headlines caught my attention. It read "How conservative are GOP contenders?"
As a conservative myself, that's certainly an interesting question to me. When I checked
the story, what it reported surprised and alarmed me. Anyone following the GOP nomination
process closely is aware of Mitt Romney's less-than-iron-clad conservative credentials. RomneyCare and his flip-flopping on abortion are two main reasons why. Given the
misgivings of his presumed base of support regarding the latter issue, one would think Romney would be very pro-active in assuaging any doubts about his pro-life positions.
This week's pro-life forum in South Carolina would seem the perfect venue to convince his pro-life doubters they need not worry about how he would govern with respect to
abortion. However, he will not be in attendance tonight. In fact, Jennifer Mason, a representative of Personhood USA, the forum's sponsor, reports that Romney did not even
bother responding to the invitation to participate.
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"We did invite all of the candidates, and we do have former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Congressman Ron Paul, former Senator Rick Santorum, and Texas Governor Rick Perry," reports
Personhood USA's Jennifer Mason. "But Mitt Romney actually is not going to be coming."
She says the Romney camp simply did not respond to the invitation, even though the forum would have provided for him an opportunity to straighten out questions about his stance on
life issues.
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Romney's brush-off does nothing to "straighten out" those questions - at least not in the pro-life direction. Instead, it will serve to solidify Romney's reputation as a risky choice for
social conservatives in South Carolina and nationwide. I don't think it would be wise for him to remain silent on his absence tonight. He needs to offer a public explanation that
passes muster or the reverberations could move Saturday's Palmetto State primary results away from him and jeopardize the easy path to the nomination on which he's currently travelling.
Filed under:
SC Primary 2012
South Carolina 2012
SC President 2012
2012 GOP Primaries
Mitt Romney
posted by Scott Elliott at 3:00pm 01/18/12::
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