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Galraedia

(5,026 posts)
Fri Nov 2, 2012, 09:18 PM Nov 2012

Mitt Romney’s campaign insults voters

THROUGH ALL THE flip-flops, there has been one consistency in the campaign of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney: a contempt for the electorate.

How else to explain his refusal to disclose essential information? Defying recent bipartisan tradition, he failed to release the names of his bundlers — the high rollers who collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations. He never provided sufficient tax returns to show voters how he became rich.

How, other than an assumption that voters are too dim to remember what Mr. Romney has said across the years and months, to account for his breathtaking ideological shifts? He was a friend of immigrants, then a scourge of immigrants, then again a friend. He was a Kissingerian foreign policy realist, then a McCain-like hawk, then a purveyor of peace. He pioneered Obamacare, he detested Obamacare, then he found elements in it to cherish. Assault weapons were bad, then good. Abortion was okay, then bad. Climate change was an urgent problem; then, not so much. Hurricane cleanup was a job for the states, until it was once again a job for the feds.

The same presumption of gullibility has infused his misleading commercials (see: Jeep jobs to China) and his refusal to lay out an agenda. Mr. Romney promised to replace the Affordable Care Act but never said with what. He promised an alternative to President Obama’s lifeline to young undocumented immigrants but never deigned to describe it.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romneys-election-campaign-insults-voters/2012/11/02/69fcc1fc-2428-11e2-9313-3c7f59038d93_story.html

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Mitt Romney’s campaign insults voters (Original Post) Galraedia Nov 2012 OP
This is was what I was thinking earlier. Third Doctor Nov 2012 #1
I like to think the best of people... savebigbird Nov 2012 #2

Third Doctor

(1,574 posts)
1. This is was what I was thinking earlier.
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 12:02 AM
Nov 2012

He made a calculation that the american public is so unengaged and dumb that they would not understand that he was lying. It's from a position of stunning arrogance. Sadly a lot of people have fallen for it or they are willfully ignorant.

savebigbird

(417 posts)
2. I like to think the best of people...
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 06:55 AM
Nov 2012

so I'm going to keep telling myself that Mitt was just too unintelligent to keep his lies straight. He would never think we're stupid enough to buy into his flip-flopping!

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