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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWAPO Hopes Obama Wins: Mitt Romney’s "One consistency = contempt for the electorate.”
THROUGH ALL THE flip-flops, there has been one consistency in the campaign of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney: a contempt for the electorate.
How else to explain his refusal to disclose essential information? Defying recent bipartisan tradition, he failed to release the names of his bundlers the high rollers who collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations. He never provided sufficient tax returns to show voters how he became rich.
How, other than an assumption that voters are too dim to remember what Mr. Romney has said across the years and months, to account for his breathtaking ideological shifts? He was a friend of immigrants, then a scourge of immigrants, then again a friend. He was a Kissingerian foreign policy realist, then a McCain-like hawk, then a purveyor of peace. He pioneered Obamacare, he detested Obamacare, then he found elements in it to cherish. Assault weapons were bad, then good. Abortion was okay, then bad. Climate change was an urgent problem; then, not so much. Hurricane cleanup was a job for the states, until it was once again a job for the feds.
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Mr. Romney........seems to be betting that voters have no memories, poor arithmetic skills and a general inability to look behind the curtain. We hope the results Tuesday prove him wrong.
OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)I just saw that quote on Hardball and went to look for it. Thanks!
K&R
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)FEMA, Regulations, Social Security , he has more contempt than compassion.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)and Mitt is the gift that keeps on giving because he is so obvious about his contempt that Republicans can see it. He is probably the creepiest presidential candidate to ever run in a final election (but I could be wrong).