Quote of the Day: Human Events, December 2005 (also see Update)

Entry #8 in the publication’s “Top 10 RINOs” list at the time:

8. Gov. Mitt Romney (Mass.)
Has said, “I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country.” Supports civil unions and stringent gun laws. After visiting Houston, he criticized the city’s aesthetics, saying, “This is what happens when you don’t have zoning.”

Among the many noted RINOs at the time Human Events didn’t consider to be as bad as Romney: Ohioans Bob Taft, Mike DeWine, and George Voinovich.

Yet during the campaign, Human Events gave Romney several extended softball interviews. In this one on December 28, 2007, Romney was never asked about civil unions, didn’t challenge his previous support of stringent gun laws, and only asked about whether women who have abortions should be prosecuted — a position no presidential candidate that I know of held.

And there was this powderpuff:

Governor, what’s your reasoning behind saying that questions about your faith are un-American?

What could possibly (po$$ibly?) explain this?

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UPDATE: Related and strangely forgotten – Romney did not participate in a “Values Voter” debate in September 2007 (neither did Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, or John McCain).

Romney’s empty chair was asked the following question:

Unfortunately, that’s the best answer he could have given, present or absent.

But what about the “pornography” part of the question? Where did that come from?

Well, here (”Romney Criticized for Hotel Pornography”) and here (a Salt Lake City Deseret News editorial, “The nasty taint of porn”).

According to a July 2007 Associated Press article carried in the Washington Post (never disputed by Romney, as far as I can tell):

Romney said his current concern is not about pornography per se, but children unwittingly stumbling upon it on the Internet or television.

Even though this position directly contradicts that of alleged social conservatives, Romney is now getting support from many of them, including some who were criticizing him in the July 2007 AP article (yeah, I’m talking to you, Tony Perkins).

What could possibly (po$$ibly?) explain this?