In his piece yesterday, “Will The Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up (For Something)?”, op ed writer Doug Wrenn called MA governor and potential ’08 presidential candidate Mitt Romney into account for waffling on the pro-life issue.
I’m not ready to discard Romney, because he recently took a strong and unpopular stand against embryonic stem cell research. He may be honestly transitioning from “privately pro-life” politician to one who is publicly pro-life, and if so, he needs pro-life support and encouragement.
But if the aforementioned is true, Romney needs to grow cahones, and quickly. Gullible pro-lifers are entities of the past. We will no longer accept crumbs and placations.
Wrenn stated:

[A] former Connecticut Republican state representative once told me that even pro-life Republicans soon become ‘pro-choice,’ or at least, very silent, because that is the only way that they can supposedly get elected and continue to get elected in Connecticut. This person told me that the pressure from so called ‘pro-choice’ groups in the state’s capitol in Hartford creates a stifling pressure and that the pro-life groups supposedly do not give enough support to elected officials who agree with their cause, so the pro-life politicians soon quietly capitulate to the perceived pro-choice majority [emphasis mine].

Three points: 1) pro-aborts are and will always be loud bullies; 2) just because pro-aborts are loud does not mean they are in the majority – they are not; and 3) some of the blame for political wimps and capitulators rests on pro-life shoulders for not giving proper support.