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Mitt Romney\u2019s famous about faces on key issues has many tongues wagging as the presidential campaign heads for the home stretch.<\/p>\n

* He once believed that humans caused climate change; now he says it\u2019s bunk.<\/p>\n

* Mitt once thought we could institute \u201creasonable\u201d controls on guns; he now opposes that, too.<\/p>\n

* Romney rammed through a comprehensive health care reform for his state, which served as the model for President Obama\u2019s own national program; now he wants to repeal \u201cObamacare.\u201d<\/p>\n

* Romney once espoused a woman\u2019s right to choose to have an abortion; he now vows to select judges who would repeal Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in this country.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s not the first Republican politician to switch so dramatically, particularly on abortion.<\/p>\n

My favorite GOP flip-flopper is the 41st president of the U.S., George H.W. Bush. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s flash back to 1980. Ronald Reagan was about to be nominated for president by the Republican Party. The Gipper was shopping around for a running mate. He actually negotiated with former President Gerald Ford about taking the job; Ford declined, not wanting to play second fiddle to the guy who almost defeated him for the GOP nomination in 1976. <\/p>\n

So, Reagan turned to Bush. One little problem emerged, though. Bush was strongly pro-choice. Were he to take the job as Reagan\u2019s VP, he\u2019d have to change his mind on abortion \u2013 immediately. Bush did. He became adamantly pro-life the instant he said \u201cyes\u201d to The Gipper.<\/p>\n

No one seemed to mind at the time. And that makes me wonder if the flip-flop charge against Romney is going to matter so much.<\/p>\n

In my mind, it should. A politician should stand by his\/her beliefs. <\/p>\n

And just how strongly did Bush believe in a woman\u2019s right to choose? When he served in the U.S. House in the late 1960s representing the Houston area, he acquired a nickname owing to his strong support of women\u2019s reproductive rights.<\/p>\n

His congressional colleagues called him \u201cRubbers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

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Mitt Romney\u2019s famous about faces on key issues has many tongues wagging as the presidential campaign heads for the home stretch. * He once believed that humans caused climate change; now he says it\u2019s bunk. * Mitt once thought we could institute \u201creasonable\u201d controls on guns; he now opposes that, too. * Romney rammed through … Continue reading Romney\u2019s not the first GOP flip-flopper<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}