Romney flips on Hill, walks away from her village

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Campaign trail: Romney takes back endorsement of Clinton's 'village' concept

ASSOCIATED PRESS

April 16, 2007

NEWBURY, N.H. – Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney says that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is wrong when she contends that “it takes a village” to raise a child, though he told a newspaper in 1998 that Clinton was “very much right.”

During a speech to New Hampshire Republicans last weekend in which he touted the need for strong American families, the former Massachusetts governor said, “I think it's time for us to recognize every child deserves a mother and a father.”

Asked by The Associated Press after the speech if he disagreed with Clinton's view, expressed in her 1996 book “It Takes a Village,” that raising children requires a community-wide effort, Romney said he disagreed and added, “It takes a family.”

However, in 1998, Romney told The Boston Globe: “Hillary Clinton is very much right, it does take a village, and we are a village and we need to work together in a non-skeptical, no-finger-pointing way.”

On Monday, Romney's campaign said his Globe comments were about public-private partnerships, not families. Romney was referencing corporations, not parents, the campaign said.

A Clinton spokeswoman said she was not surprised by Romney's latest remarks.

“To be safe, you might want to wait and ask him again tomorrow,” Clinton spokeswoman Kathleen Strand said. “He tends to change his positions pretty often.”

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20070416-1613-onthe2008trail.html


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[zanne]

1. Stick a fork in him...

He's done.

[Bucky]

2. Your prognosis is based on Republican's known loathing of hypocrites?

I wish I could be so sanguine. But Republican voters have a pretty long track record on ignoring substance and falling in line behind whatever crank wants to express the harshest and most sanctimonious expression of their views. They fell for Buchanan, they fell for Bush I, they fell for Steve Forbes' shtick, they even ate it up when Newt Gingrich proclaimed himself Mr Ethics.

PT Barnum was right: there's a Republican born every minute.

[zanne]

3. What was I thinking?

You can't analyze Republican politics while thinking like a Democrat.

[zanne]

4. dupe

[Selatius]

5. I don't want a damn corporation raising my children.

If by village she means people such as friends and neighbors, she is fucking right. I doubt she was talking about some stone-cold corporation whose sole purpose of existence is to enhance shareholder value of the owners. There is no love in money. There is in people.

[Colobo]

6. What a STUPID individual...