Editorial: For the ever-changing Romney, a new persona: himself [Boston Globe] [barf]

The Boston Globe ^ | 2009-09-03

[rabscuttle385]

MITT ROMNEY isn’t openly running for president yet, but he’s clearly focused like a laser on 2012. And seldom has a noncandidate done so well by doing so little. That’s mostly because an astonishing number of his putative 2012 rivals have obliged Romney by systematically stumbling.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s stock sank like a stone after his amateurish, underwhelming response to President Obama’s February address to Congress. Sarah Palin’s decision to resign as governor of Alaska has only exacerbated doubts about her abilities. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and Nevada Senator John Ensign have been badly embarrassed by soap opera affairs, which have made a mockery of their pious public pronouncements.

By contrast, the polished Romney, who is the very picture of a devoted husband, has gotten taller just by keeping his head relatively low. But something equally important seems to be happening inside his camp. According to Sasha Issenberg’s story in the Boston Globe Magazine, Romney’s team has come to think that the former venture capitalist and governor’s best route to the White House will come by stressing economic and fiscal issues and managerial competence rather than by pushing conservative social and cultural hot buttons.

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[rabscuttle385]

Puke.

[DemonDeac]

So the pro-abort, pro-gay, anti-gun Mitt wasn’t the real Mitt and the conservative Mitt of 2008 wasn’t the real Mitt and we are supposed to believe that now we will see his genuine side?

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

Have an air-sickness companion bag ready... or three...

[Nervous Tick]

“focused like a laser” isn’t a phrase I would use to describe Mitt Romney. Ever. And I don’t particularly dislike him like many here do.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Perfect cartoon.

Nice family guy, business acumen and private sector experience, telegenic, that’s all nice and well.

But he tries so hard to please everyone and say anything to get elected, that I don’t know where he truly stands on anything.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Am I wrong, but for some reason, as I was reading this barf, I thought this song somehow ought to be playing in the background...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMDKDAfnNFs

[fieldmarshaldj]

Everywhere... and nowhere. As long as we remember it’s always and only about him, you know where he really stands.

[meandog]

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... get the point?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Willard should just join the democrat party as he is already a rat.

[rabscuttle385]

That is an appropriate song. Very appropriate.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

It will take a lot of changing before I’d ever trust or support Mitt Romney. Hell may freeze over first!

[Diogenesis]

The "new" improved, redone, shapeshifted, Romney:

RINO backstabber, socialist Mitt Romney:
“Make all the promises you have to...”

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"Romney in Seven Words"
"On Wednesday, after his loss in the New Hampshire primary, Gov. Mitt Romney returned to Boston
to lick his wounds and conduct a telephone fundraiser before heading off to his next must win state of Michigan.
ABC Radio microphones were there and they featured an audio quote from Romney in their top of the hour news broadcasts.
Romney was encouraging his phone bank volunteers with a little pep talk when he unintentionally summed up his entire campaign;
ironically hitting upon the reason why he has failed to gain any traction with conservatives despite spending the most money of any Republican.
ABC News Radio was contacted by telephone and confirmed the following quote from their report.
" Hit the phones today make all the promises you have to, and…
make sure that we get the funds that we need to keep on propelling this campaign forward with power and energy.
“Make all the promises you have to.”
That’s Romney in a nutshell.
Of all the Republicans running, he alone has sought to clarify, cover,
and indeed change past positions in an attempt to curry favor with conservatives.
In the process, Romney has developed a reputation not as a principled conservative,
but as a politician who will say almost anything and take almost any position to win votes. "

[Lancey Howard]

[Reagan Man]

>>>>>By contrast, the polished Romney...

That luster is phony and rubs off easy, leaving behind a slick oily substance that exposes Romney for what he is. An unprincipled, two-faced chameleon for whom political expediency trumps principle at every given opportunity.

If the GOP wants to come out on the losing end in 2012, picking Romney as its nominee would seal the deal.

[fieldmarshaldj]

That’s a town in Greece, right ?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Thanks for confirming I wasn’t entirely crazy. ;-)

[Diogenesis]

[svcw]

How does an ever change guy focus like a laser? He focuses more like an incandescent bulb.

[rabscuttle385]

You? Crazy? I highly doubt that.

Though, I wouldn’t have known of the song otherwise, since it’s older than I am.