Sorry, Erick: Mitt Romney Is The *PERFECT* Conservative

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Sorry, Erick: Mitt Romney Is The *PERFECT* Conservative

by Dracowyrm

One of the many strikes against Mitt Romney's candidacy has been a regular drumbeat of complaint by movement conservatives like Redstate's Erick Erickson that Romney isn't sufficiently ideologically conservative, that he's wishy-washy on their issues, that his tenure as Governor of Massachusetts shows he's too liberal, etc. During the primary season, each of the Non-Romneys du jour took a crack at undermining the Mittster based on this critique.

Sorry, right-wing nutcases, but I've got news for you: Mitt Romney is precisely what your party stands for.

In fact, he is a carbon-copy of what your party has nominated in each of the four past Presidential cycles: a privileged, spoiled, morally blank, mean-spirited person driven solely by desire for self-aggrandizement.

Why does it surprise you that Romney will tell you what you want to hear, gainsay it ten minutes later and then deny the contradiction? Republican Presidents have been doing that since Ronald Reagan. At least he had the excuse of dementia (which was denied, of course), but that hardly extends to his many handlers and flaks, who lied cheerfully and liberally, daring the worshiping press to contradict them. Romney is no more mendacious than Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, Dana Perino or Scott McClellan were on behalf of Dubya, or than John McCain is when throwing his supposedly stellar principles under the bus for political expediency (this week, it was Our Veteran Hero voting against the Veterans' Job Act).

The current nominee's only innovation in this regard is in having shortened the intervals between flip and flop, and not bothering to try some tortured rationalization for why the contradictions are somehow consistent.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/26/1136902/-Sorry-Erick-Mitt-Romney-Is-The-PERFECT-Conservative

Erickson is also a CNN consultant. Mitt is in the middle of a desperate Etch-A-Sketch moment and conservatives are trying to distance themselves. Freepers are in meltdown.

Hilarious Freeper meltdowns under way after Romney brags about MA health care
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021422970

Mitt Romney Did NOT Cover All Children In MA
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/26/1136897/-Mitt-Romney-Did-NOT-Cover-All-Children-In-MA

[HereSince1628]

1. Not sure how we're counting last 4 presidential election cycles in this article...

If you count previous as in previous that would take us back to Bob Dole. And say what you will of Mr. Dole's politics and character, he really and truly wasn't a kid of privilege.

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2. Maybe he counted this one.

If not it should be three, a minor point, don't you think?

[HereSince1628]

3. It's the minor points that leave the weasels escape routes.

All that's needed to smash a generally true statement is one counter example that reinforces your opponents existing beliefs.

Of course, such minor things have no impact on partisans who start on the same side of the writer and see only reinforcement of their existing beliefs.

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4. Not really.

I think you're making too much of this, and it doesn't really impact the larger point. I mean, privileged was just one charaterization among serveral.

"a privileged, spoiled, morally blank, mean-spirited person driven solely by desire for self-aggrandizement."

At the very least, mean-spirited does apply to Dole. It's not like Dole hadn't amassed significant wealth by the time he ran.


On edit: Like I said, you also don't know if the four includes this one. It could, and at the very least, if someone were to harp on that point, be written of as such.

[HereSince1628]

5. You are entitled to your opinion

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