The link between Mitt Romney and Dr. Jack Willke, the anti-choice activist who is the primary source of the idiotic claim that women who are raped don’t get pregnant because their hormones prevent it, continues to get clearer. He wasn’t just endorsed by Willke in 2007; he’s met with Willke during this campaign and made promises to him:
However, Dr Willke told The Daily Telegraph that he did meet Mr Romney during a presidential primary campaign stop in the doctor’s home city of Cincinnati, Ohio, in October last year. Local news reports at the time noted that the candidate held “private meetings” during the visit.
“He told me ‘thank you for your support – we agree on almost everything, and if I am elected President I will make some major pro-life pronouncements’,” Dr Willke said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.
“I thanked him, and said I knew where he was – that he was 99 per cent of what we wanted,” he said of the roughly ten-minute meeting. “I told him I would help in any way I could”. A spokesman for Mr Romney declined to comment.
So he’s publicly denouncing Akin’s anti-woman and anti-science claims while courting the man responsible for them and promising him that he’ll do what the man wants done if he’s elected to office.
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Raging Bee
August 27, 2012 at 11:50 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
A spokesman for Mr Romney declined to comment.
Also, I hear Mutt Romney has demanded that no “journalist” come near him unless they agree in advance not to talk about Akin or his Medieval opinions on women’s health issues. IF this guy — and apparently his entire party as well — can’t stand up and talk honestly about their own opinions, there’s no way they’ll be able to stand up to, say, the Iranians or the Chinese. This is not a time to be electing such obvious cowards to important leadership positions.
Stevarious
August 27, 2012 at 11:55 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yeah but that was twelve whole months ago – that’s like 37 years in Romney-time.
Larry
August 27, 2012 at 12:06 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
No kidding. Rmoney goes through 3 or 4 position changes per day, twice that on Sunday.
Lycanthrope
August 27, 2012 at 12:10 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Why, sometimes he’s believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
MikeMa
August 27, 2012 at 12:19 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@Lycanthrope
Hopefully one of them is that he’ll be elected president.
Bronze Dog
August 27, 2012 at 12:37 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
One of these days, he should round it off with seven and head to Milliway’s. And get a very good look at the end of the universe.
Sorry, my geek self felt like turning the Carrol reference into an Adams one.
d cwilson
August 27, 2012 at 12:46 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Well, just about the only loophole Mittens hasn’t exploited is to be dead for tax purposes.
bobcarroll
August 27, 2012 at 8:00 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Bronze, sorry, but that’s Carroll, not Carrol. Not his real name, of course. C L Dodgson, as a good Engishman should, chose an Irish moniker when writing nonsense.
democommie
August 28, 2012 at 8:04 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
bobcarroll:
But it turns out it warn’t really nonsense, was it? We ARE through the looking glass.
“No kidding. Rmoney goes through 3 or 4 position changes per day, twice that on Sunday.”
Oh, Larry, that’s so droll. There’s no way that Mittmoroni could get twice as much done on Sunday. He’s at chu–, oh, wait I see what you did there. Why do you HATE JESUS!?!