Ladies and gentlemen, it's one thing to say you are pro-choice one week and pro-life the next because that's a political requirement in the GOP. However, if you claim to be uber-pro-lifer while investing $75-million in a company that disposed of millions of fetuses, that would be a problem. Consider this from Mother Jones:
"Earlier this year, Mitt Romney nearly landed in a politically perilous controversy when the Huffington Post reported that in 1999 the GOP presidential candidate had been part of an investment group that invested $75 million in Stericycle, a medical-waste disposal firm that has been attacked by anti-abortion groups for disposing aborted fetuses collected from family planning clinics. Coming during the heat of the GOP primaries, as Romney tried to sell South Carolina Republicans on his pro-life bona fides, the revelation had the potential to damage the candidate's reputation among values voters already suspicious of his shifting position on abortion."
Romney dispense of this issue rather easily in the primary by saying he had left Bain to work on the Olympics in February 1999 so he used "the new guys did it" argument successfully.
However, they discovered that not only did Romney sign off on the investment to dispose of fetuses that were picked-up from family planning clinics, he lied about how much involvement he had after his so-called retirement:
"The document also states that Romney "may be deemed to share voting and dispositive power with respect to" 2,116,588 shares of common stock in Stericycle "in his capacity as sole shareholder" of the Bain entities that invested in the company.
...Another SEC document filed November 30, 1999, by Stericycle also names Romney as an individual who holds "voting and dispositive power" with respect to the stock owned by Bain. If Romney had fully retired from the private equity firm he founded, why would he be the only Bain executive named as the person in control of this large amount of Stericycle stock?"
Think about this for a second: we have a good ole family values republican who lies about his involvement in investing in a company that picks-up aborted fetuses from a family planning clinic?
Seriously?
Um, wow...
All we need next is for that family planning clinic to be Planned Parenthood for this scandal to be totally complete!!!
Umbefreakingbelievable.