THANK YOU for posting this.
I’ve been saying this since he entered the campaign, and since he “suspended” it. More so since his suspension.
The point is valid, and one that was CONSTANTLY obfuscated if not outright ignored by his supporters. Some of his more adamant supporters here on FR would insist that, if his Kerry-esque FLIP-FLOPPING were pointed out, then that person MUST be an anti-Mormon bigot.
I quite frankly couldn’t care less about a person’s religious affiliation in the world of politics. I deal with POLITICAL facts when deciding upon a candidate, NOT religious facts. He could have been an atheist, and I would’ve still voted for him if he just wasn’t a flip-flopper.
I’ve said this before too: I can’t imagine for the life of me why someone would want to, ultimately, through their support of Romney, want to be in the same position in the general election as Kerry’s supporters found themselves in 2004 after THOSE primaries. I mean, did we all forget how EASY it was to exploit HIS flip-flopping?
This would be a vastly different, if not much more palatable race if all the Romney supporters had looked past the “bigotry” smokescreen, seen what he was (a Kerry like flip flopper), and gotten behind a true conservative like Hunter or Thompson. Do I sound like I’m blaming the McCain curse we now face on Romney supporters? That’s because I am.
The problem of the discussion of flip-flopping was that many of the claims were lies, distortions and exaggerations.