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Title: Mitt Romney Backstreet Abortion Bombshell
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RADARONLINE
URL Source: http://www.radaronline.com/exclusiv ... -abortion-bombshell-backstreet
Published: Jun 13, 2012
Author: RADAR STAFF
Post Date: 2012-06-13 14:34:58 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 32063
Comments: 45
Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has kept a shocking family abortion secret from his pro-life supporters! The White House hopeful was left devastated when a beloved relative died after undergoing a botched backstreet abortion The National Enquirer exclusively learned. Ann Keenan, the younger sister of Romney’s brother-in-law, died at age 21 after contracting a fatal infection following an illegal abortion in 1963, and political insiders say the tragedy had a profound effect on the future politician. Romney was just 16 at the time, and other than referring to Ann as a “dear, close family relative,” he has never identified her publicly or discussed her death in detail. A GOP source revealed that Romney actually became pro-choice after Ann’s death. “Mitt was absolutely crushed over the tragedy. Because of it, even though he was personally against abortion, he became convinced the procedure should be made safe, and the only way for that to happen was for it to be legal.” Romney stuck to that pro-choice position when he challenged then-Sen. Ted Kennedy for a Massachusetts Senate seat in 1994, but Romney flip-flopped to a pro-life stance before launching his bid for the presidency, and now aides fear President Barack Obama will zero in on the tragedy as the election campaign heats up. “There is no doubt that this issue will come up in a debate with Obama, and it could be a game changer,” a political insider told The Enquirer. “Mitt will defend his pro-life position to the hilt, but his political opponents will no doubt claim he only changed his stance to appeal to the party base. There’s a very real concern in his camp that he could be pushed into a corner over this.” The 65-year-old candidate’s campaign has refused to identify Ann, who was from Detroit, Mich. Her older brother Loren married Romney’s elder sister Margo Lynn in the late 1950s. Ann passed away on Oct. 7, 1963, following what her death certificate described as a “recent criminal abortion.” But even some of her closest friends didn’t know how she died. “The circumstances of Ann’s death were kept quiet because Mitt’s father George Romney was then governor of Michigan,” said the source. “But Mitt was touched personally by the death of someone who risked her life by having a back room abortion a decade before Roe vs. Wade gave women the legal right to undergo the procedure.” For more details about Mitt’s bombshell family abortion secret pick up the new issue of The National Enquirer on newsstands Thursday.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
And????? What's the point?
The point is to make mcRomney look bad, so o'Bungler will look *better,* and get re-elected. As if it really matters:
So "no significant difference.", eh? Didn't Obama get a lot more than Romney? So did you drop out of high school or junior high?
You lost me there. Of course, most businesses will donate heavily to both parties when the feds have regulations over them. Who would you pick to run your business? Obama or Romney Putting all the non relevant trivia aside, it's a race between those two to run the business that is america.
Their total take: Obama: 1,013,091+808,799+736,771+532,674+512,232 = 3,603,567 Obama get 3.6M, Romney gets 810K. Obama gets 4.44 times as much as Romney from the same firms. Capitalist Eric's graphic (stamped with OpenSecrets.org for cred): "No Significant Difference." Notice the period. They're serious that the donations establish equality of support between the two candidates when, in fact, one candidate getting 5 times as much money as the other from Wall Street fatcat bankers seems like a "significant difference" to me. And all other persons with an IQ above room temperature. Well, it wouldn't be Doctor Eric, that's for sure.
You know what's going on with public education these days - even most private education. If a math teacher asks a student the difference between $3.6M and $810K, it's just too hard to figure out. Zero is always the default answer.
Innumeracy is a terrible problem in this country. It spills over into everything. If 30% of the population seems to have problems grasping the difference between millions/billions/trillions, news reporting and discussion and analysis of state and federal budgets, understanding the economy in general, or Wall Street sails right past them. They aren't stupid, just poorly educated. So you end up having elections about stupid things, usually involving people's feelings and partisan hackery, not the facts in any given matter.
And even when given facts - like Obama wanting to bankrupt the coal industy, make electric rates necessarily skyrocket, and admit to Joe the plumber that he is outright socialist - they ignore those and instead concentrate on the petty inconsequential stuff. I still can't get all these people that admit they voted for Obama just because he's black. And why isn't that racist?
Tell me, does your husband suddenly find a long list of chores to do outside the house on the day the electric bill arrives in the mailbox? LOL. Coal-burners (but not electricity suppliers who actually burn coal) are Good Racists.
#29. To: TooConservative (#21)
Nah, he's managed to get the electric bill to ~$150 last summer when I lived at the cabin. I'm the one that turns on the A/C during the day. Besides, he works for a power plant - we're just helping keep him in business ;)
Never heard that term before. There's a lot of terms I could do without these days.
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#3. To: jwpegler (#1)
What's the point?
#5. To: Capitalist Eric, jwpegler, Serenissima Venezia, calcon (#3)
#12. To: TooConservative (#5)
#14. To: calcon, Capitalist Eric, Serenissima Venezia (#12)
You lost me there. Of course, most businesses will donate heavily to both parties when the feds have regulations over them.
Romney: 367.200+199.800+112.250+73.750+57.050 = 810,050
Who would you pick to run your business? Obama or Romney
#15. To: TooConservative, calcon, Capitalist Eric (#14)
Capitalist Eric's graphic (stamped with OpenSecrets.org for cred): "No Significant Difference."
#16. To: Serenissima Venezia (#15)
If a math teacher asks a student the difference between $3.6M and $810K, it's just too hard to figure out. Zero is always the default answer.
#20. To: TooConservative (#16)
So you end up having elections about stupid things, usually involving people's feelings and partisan hackery, not the facts in any given matter.
#21. To: Serenissima Venezia (#20)
(Edited)
And even when given facts - like Obama wanting to bankrupt the coal industy, make electric rates necessarily skyrocket...
I still can't get all these people that admit they voted for Obama just because he's black. And why isn't that racist?
Replies to Comment # 21. Tell me, does your husband suddenly find a long list of chores to do outside the house on the day the electric bill arrives in the mailbox?
#30. To: TooConservative (#21)
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