In his 1994 U.S. Senate campaign in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney said the death of a family friend
after a botched illegal abortion had made him a committed pro-choicer.
Mitt Romney on
why he flip-flops:
"In the private sector," he said, "if you don't change your view when the facts change, well you'll get fired for being stubborn and stupid. Winston Churchill said, 'When the facts change I change too, Madam." What do you do?"
That'd be an even more compelling answer if he hadn't said the exact opposite a week earlier:
That's different from what he said a week ago, when he said he doesn't change positions.
The American people "can tell when people are being phony and are pandering to an audience," he said, "and you’ll see that in politics. You’re not going to see that in my campaign."
And as sensible as it may be to change your mind when the facts change, exactly what "facts" changed between 1994 and 2011 when Mitt Romney went from a committed pro-choicer (see the above video) to a committed anti-choicer? Other than the fact that he's now seeking the GOP presidential nomination, nothing changed.
To be fair to Romney, it would be stupid to seek the GOP presidential nomination as a pro-choicer. I guess that means he thinks it's better to be a liar than to be stupid. The only question I have is which Mitt Romney was lying?