Another GREAT OP from Horsey (and a toon) Mitt Romney's secrets are not all in his tax returns
Mitt Romney's secrets are not all in his tax returns
David Horsey / Los Angeles Times (July 18, 2012)
By David Horsey
July 19, 2012, 5:00 a.m.
Mitt Romney’s income tax returns may contain some surprises that he does not want the world to know about, but they are hardly his only secrets. His biggest secret, the question he has not answered through the entire campaign, the one that bothers conservatives even more than it irks liberals, is this: Does he believe in anything besides Mormonism and money?
He won in the Republican primaries because he did not hesitate to do whatever it took to destroy his opponents. Now, his campaign aides are saying, off the record, there is no limit to what they will do to beat Barack Obama. The Romney campaign will attack him for the shady friends he may have kept back in Chicago. They will ding him for smoking pot in high school. And, as demonstrated this week by one of Romney’s surrogates, former New Hampshire Gov. John H. Sununu, they will try to cast doubt on whether the president is a true American.
The one thing Romney did not do in the primaries and is not doing now is reveal what sort of president he wants to be. Oh, sure, he has put out position papers. Every day on the campaign trail he speaks in generalities about getting government out of the way of business. He is against apologizing for the USA in foreign affairs. But does anyone really know what his economic policy would be or how he would conduct himself as commander-in-chief?
Romney is an enigma. He has reversed the positions he took as governor of Massachusetts on gay rights, abortion, healthcare and immigration, yet his reversals are squishy enough to make many conservatives doubt the sincerity of his new convictions.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-romneys-secrets-20120718,0,1392391.story
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