Is Mitt Romney the New Nelson Rockefeller? (Great essay)

American Spectator ^ | Tuesday June 14, 2011 | Jeffrey Lord

[Lancey Howard]

Mitt Romney reminds me of the TV character “Joe Izusu”, the pathological liar car salesman, in the Izusu car commercials of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Or this guy, from the same era:

"Yeah.. That's the ticket."

[Luke21]

“Still George Romney is treated like he was a shock therapy patient.”

He was an absolute idiot and an Arlen Specter before his time. Mittens didn’t fall far from the tree.

[rokkitapps]

romney should be running for the democrat nom for president.

[Antoninus]

I don’t trust him. I think that were he to win, he would be a modern day Hoover.

Worse, the left would get everything they wanted (witness Massachusetts) and the national GOP would be finished as a vehicle for anything resembling Conservatism.

He MUST be defeated.

[WOSG]

In late 1967 George Romney sank his presidential chances by stating in a television interview that he had been “brainwashed” by US officials when he visited Vietnam. Great example of the media contorting an honest statement, hyperbole of course, but honest, against a republican.. Romney was trying to find facts about Viet Nam and the Johnson government lied to him. What he saw on the ground did not jibe with what he was told. Does any of this ring a bell? Still George Romney is treated like he was a shock therapy patient.

I agree with your interpretation. He was steamrollered by the poor use of words, when his substantive point was the LBJ DOD wasnt on the up and up. which was correct! .. And so it goes. Gingrich had to live with the 'wither on the vine' remark, Bush has to live down 'mission accomplished'... it's amazing how the media can use one phrase, overstate its importance and make it anchor around a politicians neck.

[WOSG]

Nah, he’d be better than Hoover ... more like Eisenhower meets Ford. A throwback to the pre-Reagan moderate GOP.

[RobbyS]

Neiher IKE nor Ford confronted what we confront now. More like Hoover who thought he knew what he was facing but really had not a clue. A bit like Captain Smith of the Titanic.

[Rudder]

Mitt Romney reminds me of the TV character “Joe Izusu”, the pathological liar car salesman...

You nailed Romney to a tee. The quintessential politician...

Hoisted by his own petard.

[rmlew]

I’m a native Upper East Sider and do not recall “saddle” being a euphemism for “secretary”.

[Doc Savage]

Why? Do you think he’s destined to die mid-coitus with his pants down???????????

[Diogenesis]

"...it's amazing how the media can use one phrase,
overstate its importance and make it anchor around a politicians neck. "

Not really 'amazing'.
The MSM is comprised of traitors to the USA
and the American people.

They LIE routinely. They coverup the real news
and substitute Weather, fabrications, and lies.

IF America survives the next three years,
history should not be kind to the MSM.