The real Mitt Romney finally stands up

[Playinghardball]

Magic Mic: Mother Jones set the famous Romney Wayback machine to May 2012
and set off a retroactive time bomb in the candidate's ever-shifting facade.

The most vexing and compelling question of the 2012 election cycle is not, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" much to the frustration of the Romney campaign and the right-wing spin machine. No. While mostly unspoken and unacknowledged, a much bigger question has been driving the American political machine for well more than a year. That question is, "At his core, just who is Mitt Romney, really?"

People of all political stripes want to know. It is the driving force that makes all his position changes and flip-flops and contradictions and walk-backs relevant and newsworthy. On the topic of who Mitt Romney is and what he believes there are more stories to keep straight than in a season's worth of To Tell The Truth contestant panels.

And it was reasonable to think, given his history, Romney was at least a pretty competent and intelligent person. But then, how to reconcile that with his stewardship over multi-million dollar organization know as Romney for President, Inc.? The last time a Michigander spent this much money on such a disastrous national endeavor the country coined a new synonym for failure: The Edsel.

Was young Mitt Romney really the man described by Ann at the Republican National Convention as an impoverished youth, eating off an ironing board and subsisting only by selling off his stock portfolio? Or was young Mitt Romney really a privileged prep school grad and Ivy Leaguer who found himself tapped by the national magazine of the swank set, socialite journal Town and Country, as one of the most eligible bachelors of 1967?

In his heart is Romney really the man who promised in 1994 to be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy? Or is he the man who in 2012 has pledged his allegiance to the darkest anti-gay forces in the country? Is he really the Romney who said in 2002, "I will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose"—or is he the Romney of 2012 who's definitely against a woman's right to choose and not really clear if that includes cases of rape, incest, and the life or health of the mother?

More at: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/23/1134430/-The-real-Mitt-Romney-finally-stands-up

[Warpy]

1. He didn't eat off an ironing board because he was poor.

Like other rich kids I knew who lived off campus while they went to Harvard, MIT or other big name schools in town, they bought only what they absolutely needed to have because they felt it was stupid to invest in a lot of furniture for student digs--and they were largely right.

I find Mitt at his core frighteningly like Reagan, his policies and core beliefs determined by the last ideologue he talked to.

Deep down, there is really nothing there.