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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitt Romney’s campaign insults voters
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romneys-election-campaign-insults-voters/2012/11/02/69fcc1fc-2428-11e2-9313-3c7f59038d93_story.htmlTHROUGH 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 Obamas lifeline to young, undocumented immigrants but never deigned to describe it.
Cirque du So-What
(25,941 posts)and that is the gist of RawMoney's campaign. Sad, then, to consider the millions who are taken in by this charlatan who doesn't deign to offer even a whiff of an alternative to the hoi polloi, but then, why *should* he? They've already turned off their cerebral cortex to facts - preferring instead to allow the so-called 'pundits' who occupy the airwaves to do their thinking for them. For these people, facts don't matter - only that RawMoney is not 'the other' that the corporate media have made out Barack Obama to be.
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)Charlatans are tricksters who mimic and prey on believers.
Romney never even made a pretense of a belief.
Cirque du So-What
(25,941 posts)perhaps 'shitweasel' is apropos in this instance.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)madashelltoo
(1,698 posts)They hate President Obama. Their mission was to humiliate the first African American president and punish those who elected him so that they would never elect another minority. They never thought America would have elected an African American and they feel betrayed. That betrayal demands retribution. The Repig's have garnered power by harnessing hatred for minorities, women, lgbt, the poor, etc. When they try to explain their positions there is no truth, no balance, nothing a rational person can relate to. An intelligent challenge is met with a louder proclamation of the same insanity. Even after the president wins re-election they will not stop, they will become more rabid. My answer to that is . . . Take your shots and keep it moving, America.