"Romney has a near-perfect record of cowardice, obfuscation and downright lies. It shows enormous

[Happyhippychick]

disrespect for the intelligence of the public."

--- Joe Klein



Couldn't have summed it up better!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

1. I have a feeling we've just scratched the surface

with ever more evidence of cowardice, obfuscation, and lies yet to come.

[Scuba]

2. And they say he's not consistent.

[hifiguy]

3. If it is so obvious that a consummate insider like Klein

would say this in print, how much more obvious can it be? This is not the kind of thing the Beltway Elite says about any "mainstream" politician.

[gratuitous]

4. Enormous disrespect for the intelligence of the public

And yet . . . he won the Republican nomination pretty handily. In all those months of first one flavor of the month (T Rump, Bachmann) and then another (Perry, Santorum), the major media didn't bother to put this guy on the spot even once? We're just a bunch of wonks with internet access, Mr. Klein; where have the millionaires who are supposed to bring us the news been on this?

[freshwest]

7. I suspect they've been watching the GOP voter pool and decided that...

The intelligence, honesty, courage, etc. of the public, or at least Republicans, were not respected traits for the GOP nomination. Nor for their voters.

The Teabaggers running the GOP are only brave when in a mob shouting down someone who can't fight back. Their intolerant emotional ravings show deficits in reasoning and maturity.

So they probably gave it up as hopeless, like talking to a fence post, but may be heartened by seeing the tide turning back to sanity in this country.

[cali]

5. wow. that's not mincing any words.

[Ikonoklast]

6. We are all just peasants to people like him.

Inherited wealth will kill Democracy.

[ejbr]

8. With his showing in the polls,

there appears to be a lack of intelligence to respect.