That was a quote from the last paragraph.
There is a conservative vacuum, and that makes an opportunity for pretenders to be promoted.
When all of the Republican candidates stand for nothing but watered-down leftism, i.e. compassionate conservatism, then we will know it is time to walk ... or time to regain control.
So a liberal rag now becomes gospel to the Mitt haters. Who would have thunk it?
It is bad enough this article is in Harpers, but the writer is even worse, contributing to the moonbat Mother Jones and the hard left The Nation. Why the heck should we take advise from this guy?
What DID I say a long time ago..”It’s all bought and paid-for”..”Mitt Romney’s campaign is a fake, and it won’t play down here”.\ I dont fault him for changing his mind, or even making mistakes in policy in the past (we have all done that to some degree..), yet there’s one think you can’t buy and that is a true sense of trust, and not just one tricking one into believeing you (Romney or anyone) are the right candidate; He lacks soul~
The only ones with absolute purity: themselves. Or so they would have us think.
a bit harsh on Romney
a) Pay Disney countless millions to construct an animatronic weatherboy.
b) Fill his head with conservative platitudes.
c) Ascend to boundless power.
Harpers is the one that had a fake article on the RNC convention.
Nice to see conservatives turning to a left wing magazine to attack another conservative. Shows what politics do to people. This must be another Clinton approved thread.
Ken Silverstein is the Washington Editor for Harper's Magazine and writes Washington Babylon for Harper's online.
A former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Silverstein has covered such topics as intelligence collaboration between the CIA and controversial foreign governments in Sudan and Libya, political corruption in Washington, and links between American oil companies and repressive foreign governments. His 2004 series The Politics of Petroleum, co-written with T. Christian Miller, won an Overseas Press Club Award. His stories on ties between the government of Equatorial Guinea and major U.S. companiesincluding Riggs Bank, ExxonMobil and Marathon Oilled to the convening of a federal grand jury, and to investigations by the Senate and the Securities and Exchange Commission. His report, co-written with Chuck Neubauer, on a lobbying business opened by Karen Weldon, daughter of Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania, led to the opening of an investigation by the House Ethics Committee.
Silverstein has been an outspoken gadfly in the newspaper business. In December of 2005, a memo he wrote to his editors at the Los Angeles Times expressing his dismay over their insistence on false balance was discussed in an article by Michael Massing in The New York Review of Books. While reporting on potential voter fraud in St. Louis in 2004, Silverstein was angered to learn that his findings were to be woven into a larger balanced piece on accusations being made nationwide, when it was clear that Republican charges of irregularities in St. Louis were insubstantial. I am completely exasperated by this approach to the news, Silverstein wrote. The idea seems to be that we go out to report but when it comes time to write we turn off our brains and repeat the spin from both sides.
Silverstein had been a contributing editor to Harper's before joining the Times. One of his pieces for the magazine, The Radioactive Boy Scout, became a highly acclaimed book of the same title published by Random House in 2004. He has also written for Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, The Nation, Slate, and Salon. From 1989 to 1993 he was a correspondent for the Associated Press in Brazil.
Fredheads remember THIS incident well.
Like Romney, McKissick is perfectly groomed, with not a single hair askew.
Hey, I'm not looking for someone who can do a brill creme commercial.
...said one young woman, reading from a script into a cell phone. After running through a list of Romneys accomplishmentsrescuing the 2000 Olympics in Salt Lake City...
Hey, I'm not looking for a chief Olympian.