Change Fever--the GOP has caught It!

[rocktivity]

Transcribed from the 1/7/08 Stephanie Miller Show:

MITT ROMNEY: "There’s no way the Senator McCain is going to be able to come to New Hampshire and say he’s the candidate that represents change; that he’ll change Washington. He IS Washington."

"…What we’re gonna do to change Washington is to bring someone in--I’m talking about me. I want…to bring to Washington the kind of can-do change experience that I’ve had everywhere I’ve been. I changed the business. I changed the Olympics, I helped changed the state, and I’m gonna change Washington. We’re going to take it apart (and) put it back together again—this time smarter, smaller, and simpler."

Interesting--the Republican presidential candidates are starting to take a interest in change as a campaign strategy (for SOME reason). But seeing as it's the Republican way of government that America is ready to change FROM, does this not amount to effectively developing an entirely new dimension to the concept of hyprocrisy?

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rocknation

[KatyaR]

1. "I changed the Olympics."

If he's the one responsible for making the Olympics into nothing but a corporate-sponsored crapfest, burning money like leaves in the fall, then I've finally pinned down the reason I can't stand him. He's probably not responsible, but I'm okay with feeling this way.

[K Gardner]

2. Oh, did anyone catch Rudy on CSPAN? Here's a sample...

he was holding forth in a living room in NH, giving a group of blank-faced sheeples a lecture on the difference between Good Change and Bad Change.

R: "Now, if I say: I'm going to raise your taxes, is that good change or bad change?"

Sheeple: "GOOD CHANGE".

R: "Now, if I say: I'm going to have the government take over your medical care, is that an example of good change of bad change?"

Sheeples: " BAD CHANGE".

There were two applause lines.. one when he intoned the name of Ronald Reagan and one when he mentioned Victory in Iraq.

It was quite the sight.

[louis-t]

7. Why did I just flash back to Fahrenheit 451?

The man on the screen asks a question, there is a pause, and then the answer is given. " I answered it right! See!"

[K Gardner]

9. I need to rewatch that movie.. good idea !

[Johonny]

3. smarter, smaller, and simpler

I enjoy the fact that so many conservatives think that a modern industrial country with a population of over 300,000 can be run by a smaller, simpler government than the current one.

[Uncle Sinister]

4. He'd be a change agent, alright...Bush is one of the biggest change agents around....

the quesstion, though is which WAY we want to change

[Mike Nelson]

5. Romney Changes positions....

like he changes his underwear.

[KingFlorez]

6. Change isn't a part of doctrine

Republicans always stand for keeping things the way they are and the only changes they want are the ones that will roll back progress.

[Hieronymus]

8. Mitt's changed his position on everything ..

[tridim]

10. If we have real debates before the general election this could be a good thing.

"So Mittens/Huckster/McCain, what exactly do you want to change?"

"Uhmmmmmm..?"

It's just that easy.

The funniest part is that change is the polar opposite of "conservatism". Have fun with that GOP.