{"id":30949,"date":"2012-10-30T10:13:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T16:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/so-which-group-is-he-lying-to.html"},"modified":"2012-11-01T09:17:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T15:17:36","slug":"so-which-group-is-he-lying-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/so-which-group-is-he-lying-to.html","title":{"rendered":"So which group is he lying to?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because during the GOP primaries and before various appreciative audiences since then, Romney&#39;s been staunchly anti-abortion and all gung-ho to overturn <i>Roe v. Wade<\/i>. \u00a0But now he&#39;s all, &quot;Well, heck, nothing I can do about it, it&#39;s not on my agenda, so don&#39;t worry your pretty little heads&quot; on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>So either he&#39;s been lying to the anti-abortion social conservative base, or he&#39;s lying to the abortion rights folks who might otherwise think he&#39;s too radical to vote for.<\/p>\n<p>Will\u00a0both groups believe him? Will\u00a0neither?<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/blog.pfaw.org\/content\/romney-campaign-plays-dumb-about-roe-vwade'>Romney Campaign Plays Dumb About Roe v. Wade |<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat do you do to win over abortion rights supporters if you&#8217;ve spent your whole presidential campaign telling right-wing activists you&#8217;re anti-choice? For Mitt Romney, the answer is simple: lie! &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Uw5K1STVqSU' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because during the GOP primaries and before various appreciative audiences since then, Romney&#39;s been staunchly anti-abortion and all gung-ho to overturn Roe v. Wade. \u00a0But now he&#39;s all, &quot;Well, heck, nothing I can do about it, it&#39;s not on my agenda, so don&#39;t worry your pretty little heads&quot; on the subject. So either he&#39;s been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/so-which-group-is-he-lying-to.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So which group is he lying to?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,99,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-elections-2012","category-health-care"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30024,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/29\/mitt-wont-touch-abortion-rights-because-his-sister-says-he-wont.html","url_meta":{"origin":30949,"position":0},"title":"Mitt won&#39;t touch abortion rights, because his sister says he won&#39;t","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Aug-12 3:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Mitt won't touch abortion rights, because his sister says he won'tWhich either means all the campaign trail rhetoric is a disingenuous draw for the Religious Right, or his sister doesn't know what she's talking about.Actually, I'd like to think it's the former, given his past, more moderate record. 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