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Activist Claims 'Deception' Behind Gov. Romney's 'Conversion' to Conservatism

By Jim Brown
December 6, 2006

(AgapePress) - A pro-family activist group in Massachusetts is warning that Governor Mitt Romney is not the conservative politician he's portraying himself to be. The group has unveiled a lengthy document titled "The Mitt Romney Deception."

Mass Resistance founder Brian Camenker says the Republican presidential candidate has been "posturing" himself in other states as a conservative, pro-life, anti-homosexual "marriage" candidate -- but his record, says the activist, tells a much different story. Camenker has followed Romney since his first political campaign against Ted Kennedy in 1994.

"I watched him on television talk about how he was for abortion and how he would be more for homosexual rights than Ted Kennedy himself," he shares. "I mean, we watched him say this on television. And when he ran for governor, we all watched as he claimed to be just as pro-choice as his Democrat opponent."

In "The Mitt Romney Deception," Camenker states that Romney's "new found conversion" to conservatism "very likely coincides with his candidacy for the presidency." The document, says the activist, is necessary because of a "calculated effort" by the Romney campaign to "revise his history and portray [him] as far more conservative than the record shows." And that record, writes Camenker, "indicates that [Romney] has spend his entire career speaking and governing as a liberal."

Camenker says he does not see how a conservative group or publication could take Romney seriously.

"It really shocked me how gullible a lot of these conservatives around the country have been," he says, "and part of it has been because of Romney's very impressive PR campaign into which I guess he's pumped quite a lot of money -- probably millions of dollars -- and the fact that a lot of people just didn't see what we saw here in Massachusetts."

According to the Mass Resistance spokesman, homosexual newspapers have praised Romney quite a bit over the years. In addition he notes that the Log Cabin Republicans, a pro-homosexual group within the GOP, endorsed the governor in both elections while he ran as a liberal.

Romney's office did not return calls requesting an interview with the governor.


Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.

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