"‘Romnesia’ and the weasel factor" by Greg Sargent at WP

[applegrove]

‘Romnesia’ and the weasel factor

by Greg Sargent at WP


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/romnesia-and-the-weasel-factor/2012/10/19/de003690-1a0c-11e2-aa6f-3b636fecb829_blog.html?hpid=z2

"SNIP.........................................

Obama runs through Mitt’s “Romnesia” on a range of issues — equal pay, contraception, abortion, tax cuts for the rich, etc. — and then ends on a joke. He says the good news is that Mitt’s “Romnesia” can be cured — thanks to Obamacare, which guarantees coverage to people with preexisting conditions.

Republicans are mocking the new coinage, claiming it reveals — along with the Big Bird hit — the superficiality of the Obama campaign. But there’s actually a serious point to be made about this. The “Romnesia” riff is all about resolving the strategic dilemma the Obama campaign has faced when portraying Romney as alternately a flip flopper and an extremist.

There was never any real contradiction there, despite pundit claims to the contrary. Romney held extreme positions to get through the primary, then flip flopped away from them to get through the general election, but can be expected as president to honor the extreme positions he originally took, since his base won’t let him do otherwise. There’s nothing contradictory in pointing all that out. However, painting Romney as a flip flopper does risk driving home the idea that Romney never really believed in the exreme positions he adopted and is a moderate at heart.

The new “Romnesia” riff can be seen as an answer to this. There’s no need to choose between “extremist” and “flip flopper.” Romney is simply a weasel.

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[wisteria]

1. Weasel is a good word too.n/t

[Cha]

2. "... But there’s actually a serious point to be made about this"

Ya Think!

Greg Sargent called Romney a "weasel"! That works for me!

Thanks applegrove..this is great.

There's nothing else the mitt campaign can say except we're "not serious". They can't refute any of the Romney LIES.

Will Romnesia be mentioned in any way shape or form at the Debate in Boca Raton..the scene of the "47%" Crime? The suspense continues..

[applegrove]

3. Romney is a serial fabricator. And that makes him the least serious of candidates.

[Cha]

4. Precisely! I had that thought running

around in the back of my mind and you've articulated it perfectly!