Romney Has Some Explaining To Do

by Michael Sean Winters

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There is nothing an opposition researcher likes better than a video clip that shows an opponent speaking on a topic in a deeply personal manner, and evidencing how profoundly committed he is to a given position, but which, in the event, the candidate has now flipped on.
Salon has just such a video clip from a 1994 debate in which Mitt Romney spoke about how traumatized he was in the 1960s when a close relative died after procuring an illegal abortion.

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