Republican National Committee chairman Reince Preibus didn’t like it when, this morning, Soledad O’Brien called him out for claiming that Mitt Romney has been 100% consistent on his abortion stance. Why does she have to ask him questions? Who does she think she is, anyway? Just some lady-journalist asking questions about lady-business. How dare she?

The very thought that Mitt Romney has been 100% consistent on anything is enough to make me question the very existence of time and space, but his egregious 2 hour abortion flip-flop on Tuesday was particularly mind-boggling.

On Tuesday, Romney told the Des Moines Register in Iowa that there were no abortion laws that he was “familiar with” that were on his agenda. Within two hours, his campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul had informed an NRO contributor that “of course he would support legislation aimed at providing greater protections for life.”

Then later that same say, Romney told reporters in Ohio that he is a pro-life candidate who would “immediately” defund Planned Parenthood:

“I think I’ve said time and again, I’m a pro-life candidate,” he told reporters at a campaign stop in Ohio according to a pool report. “I’ll be a pro-life president. The actions I’ll take immediately are to remove funding for Planned Parenthood. It will not be part of my budget.”

O’Brien pointed out this contradiction to Priebus. Priebus denied that it was a contradiction and then whined that O’Brien was doing her job and asking him questions. Oh, injustice!

From Raw Story, here’s what Priebus had to say:

“The fact of the matter is what he is referring to is whether or not there were piles of legislation in the Congress, what specific bills in the Congress in regard to abortion are you going to be pushing over the next four years,” the RNC chairman explained. “The fact of the matter is Mitt Romney has been absolutely 100 percent consistent on this issue, that he’s pro-life, that there will be no funding of abortion through Planned Parenthood using taxpayer dollars, that he would use an executive order — the Mexico City executive order — so that funding isn’t used to pay for abortions abroad.”

When O’Brien called him out, hilarity ensued:

“I’m going to read to you the verbate of what that question said: ‘Do you intend to pursue any legislation?’” O’Brien repeated. “I’m only repeating it because it’s a complete contradiction.” “You just keep repeating it and repeating it and repeating it,” Priebus complained. “I’d like you to answer it because I keep repeating it,” the CNN host shot back. “Explain to me how it’s not a contradiction.” “And I’m going to keep giving you the same — it isn’t a contradiction,” Priebus insisted. “You know what? He is going to have a piece of legislation in his budget that says there isn’t going to be taxpayer money used for abortion through Planned Parenthood. Why can’t you accept that?” “Because you’ve just admitted a contradiction!” O’Brien replied. “Soledad, I wish you’d be as passionate about taking Barack Obama to task for every one of his promises and for every one of his changes that he didn’t follow through on in the last four years,” Priebus quipped. “We do all the time,” O’Brien pointed out. “I will send you the tweets from people who hate me on the Republican side and hate me on the Democratic side. And anybody who comes on this show knows — I don’t mean you. I know you love me.” “I just got to tell you, we’re going to ask tough questions of everybody,” she concluded.

If you remove the vowels from Reince Priebus’s name, you get RNC PR BS.

How fitting.

The bottom line is this: Mitt Romney has no core beliefs. He will tell you what you want to hear, when you want to hear it. Why should women trust him?

Oh right — they shouldn’t.

[via Raw Story]

