Romney Voted for Tsongas in '92 Massachusetts Primary - Gives Another "Flip Flop" Reason Why
Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) has apparently found something else to flip flop about - his reason for voting for former Sen. Paul Tsongas (D-MA) over then-Gov. Bill Clinton (D-AR) in the Massachusetts Presidential primary.
During ABC's This Week with George Stephanopolous, set to air Sunday, Romney says he voted for Tsongas over Clinton because he thought Tsongas would be the weaker challenger to Vice President George H.W. Bush in the General Election.
Romney could vote in the primary because he was a registered Independent, and Massachusetts is an open primary. By that time, Vice President Bush had the nomination locked up.
There's only one problem: Romney gave a different reason for voting for Tsongas to the Boston Globe in 1992.
"Romney confirmed he voted for former U.S. Sen. Paul Tsongas in the state's 1992 Democratic presidential primary, saying he did so both because Tsongas was from Massachusetts and because he favored his ideas over those of Bill Clinton," the Boston Globe's Scot Lehigh and Frank Phillips wrote on Feb. 3, 1994. "He added he had been sure the G.O.P. would renominate George Bush, for whom he voted in the fall election."
It's one thing to change your position on abortion or gay marriage and explain why. It's another to invent a new reason for something you did IN THE PAST. Whatever you did at the time, you did it for the reason you did it at the time, not a reason you give 15 years later.
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