Former Boehner staffer on Mitt: He's wildly ambitious, willing to lie, an uncharismatic plutocrat

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That's the description of Romney from a"wildly ambitious"..."willing to lie"..."an uncharismatic plutocrat" former Boehner staffer, who's also a former writer for the right-wing Washington Times, in a column for US News.

And he's writing it as part of piece that's meant to be complimentary -- he considers the combination of willingness to lie and wild ambition a plus.

Which I guess it is, for a Republican.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/scott-galupo/2012/01/30/the-truths-mitt-romney-is-willing-to-tell

Savvy conservatives know very well that telling the accountant's truth about Obama is not going to be enough to defeat him, and they're worried that Romney isn't mean enough to deliver the necessary payload of ecstasy.

-snip-

If you had asked me a couple months ago, I would've said (actually, I did say) there are places Romney just won't go in order to get himself elected. I no longer believe that. He was posturing all along—trying to remain above the fray for as long as he could. After South Carolina, that became untenable. The Romney campaign's self-described "destruction" of Gingrich in Florida is an indication of how much he means business.

We know this: Romney is wildly ambitious and willing to lie.

Whether enough Americans are going to buy the ecstatic truth from an uncharismatic plutocrat with a strange-seeming religion is an open question. But I have no doubt that Romney will try to sell it.

Empasis added.

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