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randr

(12,412 posts)
1. Like trained animals
Sun Jul 15, 2012, 12:42 PM
Jul 2012

Mitt and his ilk assess every move as win or lose, risk vs. gain.
Right is a political term and wrong is something someone whats to do to you.
Amorality is the rule of the rich.

JHB

(37,161 posts)
9. Not quite the whole story...
Sun Jul 15, 2012, 06:44 PM
Jul 2012

Two other big factors also at work in this:

1) Accountability is for little people. He doesn't believe anyone has the right to hold him accountable, so he's trying to get away with showing the absolute minimum to say he did. In other words, gaming the system, just like he always has.

2) Force of habit.the Republican scandal MO has for decades now been to stonewall and accuse the press of bias and the Democrats of hyper-partisanship at the expense of the country. Not only is that play book getting increasingly frayed from overuse, but it usually depends on already being in power and thus controlling access to the information needed to go further with the story. He doesn't have that here, and the Obama campaign isn't interested in playing ball on his terms.

patrice

(47,992 posts)
2. Oh god, it's proof positive that they think "You all are too god-damned dumb to know that
Sun Jul 15, 2012, 12:43 PM
Jul 2012

'something' isn't everything, or to even know that 'something' isn't necessarily the precise something that you NEEED to know about us."

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
5. Will has always been one of my favorite conservative commentators
Sun Jul 15, 2012, 01:53 PM
Jul 2012

Will has a different perspective, but he usually gets his facts right and you won't ever, ever hear him say anything like Romney "retired retroactively" from Bain.

 

greiner3

(5,214 posts)
8. "Every once in a while Geo. Will says something that makes sense."
Sun Jul 15, 2012, 05:31 PM
Jul 2012

If G. Will has this much against Romney, the presumptive nominee, then there is a big push to oust Romney, somehow, someway from running.

What, or who, will rear its very ugly head?

Come on George, give us a hint.

 

Marr

(20,317 posts)
6. That is so obvious as to almost be a tautology. From George Will, however,
Sun Jul 15, 2012, 02:52 PM
Jul 2012

it can pass for insightful.

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