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Related: About this forumGeorge F. Will: Romney Must Have Calculated That There Are Higher Costs in Releasing Returns
randr
(12,412 posts)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.
patrice
(47,992 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)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)'something' isn't everything, or to even know that 'something' isn't necessarily the precise something that you NEEED to know about us."
ladjf
(17,320 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)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)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)it can pass for insightful.