Mitt Romney's Scorecard
"I repudiate the effort by that PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they've described. I would like to see this campaign focus on the economy, on getting people back to work, on seeing rising incomes and growing prosperity -- particularly for those in the middle class of America."
--Mitt Romney, Townhall.com, 05/17/12
President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience; I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.
--Mitt Romney victory speech in Florida primary, 01/31/12
In December 2005, Romney required all Massachusetts hospitals, including Catholic ones, to provide emergency contraception to rape victims, even though some Catholics view the morning-after pill as a form of abortion.
He said he was acting on his legal counsel’s interpretation of a new state law - one passed by lawmakers despite his veto - but he also said that “in his heart of hearts,’’ he believed that rape victims should have access to emergency contraception.
--Boston Globe, 02/03/12
“This same administration said that the churches and the institutions they run, such as schools and let’s say adoption agencies, hospitals, that they have to provide for their employees free of charge, contraceptives, morning after pills, in other words abortive pills, and the like at no cost,” Romney said. “Think what that does to people in faiths that do not share those views. This is a violation of conscience.
--ABC News, 02/06/12
As first pointed out by Think Progress, the host of Romney's $50,000-a-plate Star Island fundraiser on May 16 is local philanthropist and science museum benefactor Dr. Phillip Frost, who as chairman of the board of Teva Pharmaceuticals oversees the production of emergency contraceptive Plan B One Step.
--Huffington Post, 05/09/12
"'I don't really understand how it works or when it works but my understanding is it's an effective morning-after pill, and I think it would be a positive thing to have women have the choice of taking the morning-after pill,' Romney said. 'I would favor having it available.'"
--Boston Herald, 05/19/1994
Romney is opposing a 5-cent hike in the federal gas tax to fund the transportation bill, while favoring issuance of bonds that will be repaid out of the Federal Highway Trust Fund.
--Boston Herald, 12/12/03
ROMNEY: "Well, I think that would terrify everybody in the whole country. A gas tax of that nature, I think that's not something that's going to be politically acceptable to the American people."
--CNBC Kudlow & Company, 02/07/07
In addition to refusing to endorse the president's tax cuts, the governor [Mitt Romney] surprised several people by saying he is open to a federal increase in gas taxes.
--Boston Globe, 04/11/03
Gov. Romney believes the best way to help lower gas prices is for long-term structural reform, which is why he supports aggressive action to expand domestic production and guarantee the American people a reliable, affordable supply of energy for the future.
--Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul, 03/22/12
At moments, Romney went so far as to make high gas prices out to be a welcome reality for the foreseeable future, one that people needed to learn to live with. When lieutenant governor Kerry Healey, a fellow Republican, called for suspending the state’s 23.5 cent gas tax during a price spike in May 2006, Romney rejected the idea, saying it would only further drive up gasoline consumption. “I don’t think that now is the time, and I’m not sure there will be the right time, for us to encourage the use of more gasoline,” Romney said, according to the Quincy Patriot Ledger’s report at the time. “I’m very much in favor of people recognizing that these high gasoline prices are probably here to stay.”
--The New Republic, 03/22/12
