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Michelle Goldberg of The Daily Beast<\/em> has an insightful analysis<\/a> of Candidate Romney’s “Weird Abortion Gamble,” as she terms it, in refusing to sign the SBA List’s 2012 Pro-Life Presidential Leadership pledge. It’s also a good blow-by-blow documentation of his shifting self-identification as pro-life vs. “pro-choice.”<\/p>\n

On one hand, it seems oddly principled of Romney, a candidate who has always been guided by expediency when it comes to abortion.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But on the other, as I have blogged before<\/a>, Romney had little to lose by signing the pledge:<\/p>\n

Indeed, given Romney’s history, it’s surprising that he’s not bending over backward to shore up his anti-abortion credibility. After all, one thing that activists on both sides can agree on is that following Romney’s pronouncements on choice over the years produces a sort of whiplash<\/strong>. Running against Ted Kennedy for Senate in 1994, he was resolutely pro-choice, citing the death of his brother-in-law’s teenaged sister from a botched abortion as the reason for his conviction. Then, while living in Utah in 2001 and contemplating a political career in that state, he distanced himself from his earlier position. \u201cI do not wish to be labeled pro-choice,\u201d he wrote in a letter to the editor of the Salt Lake City Tribune.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

It could be that this time around, Romney is giving up<\/strong> on the religious right from the outset. Unlike in 2008, he’s skipping Iowa. Maybe he thinks there’s a constituency for moderation in the Republican Party, and that he can somehow turn his mercurial stand on abortion into an advantage. So far, there’s no pro-choice Republican like Rudolph Giuliani in the mix, nor a figure like McCain who’s been butting heads with family-values types for years. In this field, Romney may have no choice but to run to the left of the other candidates on social issues<\/strong> while trying to convince an ever-more right-wing party to make him its tribune. That will be a supremely tricky thing to do, though when it comes to ideological bobbing and weaving, Romney has had many years of practice.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Multiple observers with many different viewpoints are converging on the conclusion that Candidate Romney’s inexcusable refusal to sign a basic pro-life pledge means the obvious–he isn’t really pro-life.<\/p>\n

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