I coined the nickname Switch Hit Mitt for Romney, because he bats from both sides of every plate. In other words, he has positioned himself absolutely and irrevocably on both sides of every issue. Now that his nomination is virtually guaranteed, he will be trying to etch his sketch leftward, as far as he can, without completely offending the extremist hatemongers, to whom the Republican party has chosen to pander. As he does, the best tactic we can use to to define him using the positions that he staked out himself to win the extremist vote. Fortunately, it appears that is what the Obama campaign is doing.
So long, flip-flopper. Hello, right-wing extremist.
Mitt Romney may be inclined to start moving to the political center now that he’s practically got the Republican nomination won and done, but the Obama campaign would much rather keep him right where he’s been for the past few months: in the conservative territory he staked out while battling for Republican primary voters.
After months of depicting Mr. Romney as the ultimate squishy, double-talking, no-core soul, Team Obama is shifting gears. Senior administration officials, along with Democratic and campaign officials, all say their strategy now will be to tell the world that Mr. Romney has a core after all — and it’s deep red.
Mr. Romney’s overheard remarks at a fund-raiser in Florida on Sunday night that, if elected, he planned to slash government programs (though he has not spelled that out for the voters) gave Obama backers the perfect opening, and they jumped on it. “Mitt Romney Tells Rich Voters His Secret Plan to Cut Housing Assistance,” said a headline from ThinkProgress, a blog put out by the left-leaning Center for American Progress. Democratic officials followed that up with a call to reporters on Thursday charging that Mr. Romney’s proposal would “cut critical funds for homeless veterans.”… [emphasis added]
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Romney has endorsed the Republican wars on women, the poor and middle classes, workers, LGBT folks, seniors, students, voting rights, and human rights. We need to hammer him with those endorsements, every time he tries to sleaze away from them.
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Romney has endorsed the Republican wars on women, the poor and middle classes, workers, LGBT folks, seniors, students, voting rights, and human rights. We need to hammer him with those endorsements, every time he tries to sleaze away from them.
You are absolutely correct– As much as possible show how he talks out of both sides of his mouth! Shine a spotlight on every single thing he says!
Thanks Phyllis!
Never trust anyone who talks big but doesn’t make his ideas public because he doesn’t want to be held to account. Just look how people are calling down Mr Obama for not closing Gitmo. He wanted to but Congress passed a law that prevented that. So people only remember that he didn’t do it, not why he didn’t do it. Rmoney can’t go to the American people and say “I want to get rid of HUD and cut the Dept of Education down to one tenth of its current size” (possible specific plan) because he will alienate voters. Instead, he’ll say something more in keeping with mainstream America to woo the vote. Once he is in, when it is too late, he’ll get rid of HUD etc.
I agree that the Democrats need to use a sledge hammer and keep hammering away at Rmoney’s endorsement of the war on women, war on the poor, war on the LGBT community, on the middle class, on workers’ rights, on human rights etc etc. And because Rmoney is likely to try and hit with economic issues, Mr Obama has to keep reiterating about the obstructionist Congress.
Obama 2012!!!!!
Excellent Point, Lynn!
When Obama came to power, Bush had just about flushed the whole American economy down the tubes, hadn’t he? Now look at what Obama has achieved in the face of GOP obstructionism – but they will lie, lie and go on lying till Doomsday as far as I can see.
It is no surprise at all (sadly) that Romney is a secret fascist – he is the type of politician who will lie incessantly and unremittingly just to get power – then fulfill his own agenda which he wouldn’t dream of letting the electorate know about. Reminds me of the rise of the ‘National Socialist Party’ in Germany in the 1930s (most alarmingly). God help us all – and revitalise the Democrats activists and supporters!
Welcome Pat! 🙂
You are correct on every point.
The name for a person like Romney is pathological liar. A person like this is never to be trusted.
But isn’t that just saying he’s a Republican?
How right you are about that!