Posted on 02/25/2012 11:36:08 AM PST by The Iron Duke
To understand Mitt Romney, you have to understand the most difficult passage of his political life: how he changed his position on abortion. Not the story he tells about it, but the real story. Romney began his political career as a pro-choicer. In the story he tells, he had an epiphany, a flash of insight, and committed himself thereafter to protecting life. But that isn’t what happened. The real story of Romney’s conversion—a series of tentative, equivocal, and confused shifts, accompanied by a constant rewriting of his past—paints a more accurate picture of who he is. Romney has complex views and a talent for framing them either way, depending on his audience. He values truth, so he makes sure there’s an element of it in everything he says. He can’t stand to break his promises, so he reinterprets them. Parts of the story have been told before. But no one has put it together. And no one has assembled the many video and audio clips that bear witness to what happened.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
The main reasons conservative view Romney with lack of enthusiam is that (a) he has too often shown RINO colors and (b) he blows whichever way the wind does.
In 2008, the RNC gave us McCain the RINO. And it was an electoral disaster. Now, showing that they have learned nothing from the experience, they give us Romney the RINO.
After the stabbings in the back McCain has done the conservatives, the conservatives fear more of the same, but with a different name.
It's the Mormon way.
They believe in polygamy, until the Utah is denied Statehood because of polygamy.
They believed in the curse of black skin, until 1978, when it became too uncomfortable.
Ok. That's one way of putting it.
Imagine that, Romney tries to put a little truth into everything he says. How admirable.
That line cracked me up. So long as there is just an “element of truth” then I guess we should just ignore the lies in the rest of his assertion.
Actually Romney was their guy in 08 as well.
Complex=wishy-washy
It’s gotten to where I can’t stand to even look at Romney. He combines Bill Clinton’s abuse of the language with Al Gore’s charisma. However after reading the whole article I thought there may be some possibilities as long as any Romney nomination comes at the end of a long primary struggle in which he has been forced to make some very specific promises. Romney’s political default mode is towards his father’s style progressiveness but he’s not particularly ideological nor is he a genuine leader. When weighing his options he will always triangulate towards what he sees as the biggest voting block, so on every issue we will we have to convince him that is us.
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