Is Mitt Romney the Toothsome Carpetbagging Phoney He appears to be?
Very entertaining piece from the New Yorker on the ruinous flip floppery of Mitt Romney's Cult that includes Jim Bopp and the National Review Online.
Who would ever again go to National Review Online and believe they were getting the full story?
How long have we been duped by the crowd of hacks surrounding Mitt Romney, lying, covering up, deceiving the records of politicians they ask us to embrace?
How convincing is he about all this? To my mind, not very. God knows any half-sane columnist will defend to the death the right to change one’s mind. Yet the timing of Romney’s policy U-turns—at precisely the moment when he first got that I’m-a-gonna-run-for-president gleam in his eye—inevitably raises suspicions.
Needless to say, what matters isn’t what people like me might say but whether Republicans find Romney’s account of his switcheroos persuasive. And here the news is no less grim for Mitt. According to the latest Fox News poll, Romney’s support among Republicans nationally fell from 8 percent in December to just 3 percent at the end of January. To a large extent, Romney’s desultory numbers reflect low name recognition. But that they’re trending down instead of up should be, must be, freaking him out, even at this early stage.
Can Romney be the Willie Shoemaker of presidential politics? Maybe so—but the more likely outcome, it seems to me, is that he’ll be the Pete Wilson of 2008.
The real problem for Romney, as it was for Wilson, is not that he’s a cultist or a contortionist but that he’s a hollow man. And there’s nothing that the White Tape People will be able to do about that.
Mitt Romney is hollow BECAUSE he's a cultist.
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Posted by: Mel Chizdek | March 02, 2007 at 12:28 AM