A group representing gay Republicans on Thursday launched a television advertisement leveling a new attack on Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney for his past support of abortion rights when he ran for the U.S. Senate in 1994.
 
The Log Cabin Republicans, which has previously expressed a preference for front-runner and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, plan to run the 30-second spot for two weeks on the Fox News Channel as well as locally in the early voting state of Iowa highlighting Romney’s change of heart on abortion.
 
“As much as Gov. Romney wants to re-invent himself, his record speaks for itself,” Patrick Sammon, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, said in a statement.
 
The Romney campaign fired back that the ad comes from a group that has previously expressed its support for Giuliani and that it was no surprise that a national gay rights group would attack Romney because he supports a federal marriage amendment to the Constitution that would recognize only a marriage between a man and a woman.
 
“The advertisement misrepresents Gov. Romney’s courage to admit that he had been wrong on this issue and the fact that he is proud of his strong record of defending the sanctity of life,” said Romney spokesman Kevin Madden.
 
Here’s the ad: 

– Photo credit: Brian Snyder (above, Romney campaigning in New Hampshire)