{"id":9240,"date":"2012-10-25T08:09:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9240"},"modified":"2012-10-25T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:09:08","slug":"moderate-mitt-dont-believe-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/moderate-mitt-dont-believe-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderate Mitt? Don’t Believe It!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve been watching a new political animal prowl the campaign trail in recent weeks.  He has etched his sketch so thoroughly that it is impossible to see the \u201cseverely conservative\u201d Romney in the garb of what Bill Clinton calls \u201cModerate Mitt\u201d.  Don\u2019t believe it!  Moderate Mitt is just disguising himself as a sheeple, as his lies about women prove.  Extremism is the status quo for the Republican Party, and more so for Romney than others.<\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow covered the Republican War on Women in two segments. In the first, she covered campaign news for the first seven minutes, and then she documented the extent of that extremism since the 2010 election.<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Obama had better win in Ohiowa!! In the second, Rachel discussed it with Rep. Diana Degette.<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

From all this it is clear beyond doubt that overturning Roe v. Wade, and criminalizing abortion nationally, even in cases of rape and incest. Willard Romney want’s us to believe that he is Moderate Mitt, that he favors exceptions for rape, incest, and threat to the life of the mother. He is lying<\/font><\/p>\n

I trust you all know the story of Seamus, Willard’s tortured Irish setter. Right after that trip, on which Seamus was forced to travel on the roof of Willard’s car, Romney also demonstrated that he opposes abortion, even when the life of the mother is at severe risk.  <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\"25mitt_bully\"\u2026It was in August of that year, shortly after the Romney family returned from their vacation to Lake Huron, that a pregnant woman in her late 30s\u2014Carrel Hilton Sheldon\u2014was informed by her doctor that she had a life-threatening blood clot<\/strong> lodged in her pelvic region.<\/p>\n

In treating the clot, Sheldon was administered an overdose of the blood thinner Heparin, an overdose that not only resulted in significant internal bleeding, but also extensive damage to her kidneys, to the point where she was on the verge of needing a transplant. Her life was clearly in peril.<\/p>\n

Sheldon’s doctor advised her that the overdose of Heparin might have also harmed her 8-week-old fetus and, given the possible fatal repercussions to her<\/strong>, he recommended that she abort her pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Sheldon, a mother of four at the time (a fifth child had died as an infant), was then a practicing member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), outside of Boston. The LDS leader in Massachusetts at that time, called the "stake president," was a Harvard-trained physician, Dr. Gordon Williams, and he counseled Sheldon to follow her doctor’s advice to terminate the pregnancy and protect her own life, so that she could continue caring for her four living children<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

"Of course, you should have the abortion," she recalled him saying.<\/p>\n

According to an account later written anonymously by Sheldon for the LDS women’s journal,Exponent II, it was after receiving this counsel from her Williams supporting the potentially life-saving procedure that she experienced an uninvited visit in her hospital from her Mormon bishop at the time, 36-year-old Mitt Romney, who adamantly opposed the abortion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

"He regaled me with stories of his sister and her retarded child and what a blessing the child had been to the family," Sheldon wrote of the incident. "He told me that ‘as your bishop, my concern is with the child.’"<\/strong>…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Alternet<\/a>><\/p>\n

Photo credit: <\/font>Bossip<\/a><\/p>\n

I strongly  suggest clicking through for the rest of this extensive article.<\/font><\/p>\n

Michael Shure, Michael Hastings and Tricia Rose<\/a> tracked what looks like a lifelong pattern of Mitt Romney\u2019s mean-spirited behavior, from allegations of bullying a prep school peer, taunting a blind English teacher, hazing classmates at Stanford and, later, pressuring a pregnant woman whom he counseled not to have an abortion, even if it risked her life.<\/font><\/p>\n