Mitt Romney's flip-flop on gay rights
has been questioned by Obama adviser David Plouffe.
Appearing Sunday on NBC's Meet the
Press, Plouffe said Romney has “moved all over the place” on
issues, including gay marriage.
During his appearance, Plouffe referred
to a letter Romney wrote to gay GOP group Log Cabin Club of
Massachusetts while campaigning for the U.S. Senate in 1994. In the
letter, Romney claimed that he would a stronger advocate for gay
rights than then-Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
Romney “has no core,” Plouffe told
host David Gregory. “And everyday almost it seems to be we find
another issue. He was supportive of doing things like cap and trade
agreement, now he doesn't think that climate change is real. He was
to the left of [the late Senator] Ted Kennedy on gay rights issues,
now he wants to amend the constitution to prohibit gay marriage. He
was an extremely pro-choice governor, now he believes that life
begins at conception and would ban Roe v. Wade.”
“I can tell you one thing, working a
few steps down from the president. What you need in that office is
conviction. You need to have a true compass, and you need to be
willing to make the tough calls. And you get the sense with Mitt
Romney that, you know, if he thought it was good to say the sky was
green and the grass was blue to win an election, he'd say it,” he
added with a smile. (The video is embedded in the right panel of
this page.)
Plouffe's comments come after Texas
Governor Rick Perry and Obama
strategist David Axelrod also criticized Romney's waffling on gay
rights.