{"id":7612,"date":"2012-04-21T11:47:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T18:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7612"},"modified":"2012-04-21T11:47:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T18:47:03","slug":"attacking-switch-hit-mitt-from-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/21\/attacking-switch-hit-mitt-from-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Attacking Switch Hit Mitt from the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"21RomneyRight\"So long, flip-flopper. Hello, right-wing extremist. <\/p>\n

Mitt Romney may be inclined to start moving to the political center<\/strong> now that he\u2019s practically got the Republican nomination won and done, but the Obama campaign would much rather keep him right where he\u2019s been for the past few months: in the conservative territory he staked out while battling for Republican primary voters. <\/p>\n

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 \u2014 and it\u2019s deep red. <\/p>\n

Mr. Romney\u2019s overheard remarks<\/a> 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<\/strong>. \u201cMitt Romney Tells Rich Voters His Secret Plan to Cut Housing Assistance,\u201d said a headline from ThinkProgress<\/a>, 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\u2019s proposal would \u201ccut critical funds for homeless veterans.\u201d\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>] <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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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.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}