Friday, February 24, 2012
Romney's moment of truth
On the campaign trail is used by Paul Krugman to illuminate the total mendacity of The Great Mormonator. PK would have us understand that the total lack of principles on the part of Mittens is behind his failure to stand with any one position.
To give equal time to all the Republican/Teabagger candidates. he is not the only one to engage in nonstop mendacity. Truth was an early casualty of their War on America.
Every one of the Romney campaign’s major themes, from the attacks on President Obama for going around the world apologizing for America (he didn’t), to the insistence that Romneycare and Obamacare are very different (they’re virtually identical), to the claim that Mr. Obama has lost millions of jobs (which is only true if you count the first few months of his administration, before any of his policies had taken effect), is either an outright falsehood or deeply deceptive. Why the nonstop mendacity?In trying to be all things to all people he is nothing to anyone. And, should he be successful in his quest, he would not have room to be anything else while in office.
As I see it, it comes down to the cynicism underlying the whole enterprise. Once you’ve decided to hide your beliefs and say whatever you think will get you the nomination, to pretend to agree with people you privately believe are fools, why worry at all about truth?
To give equal time to all the Republican/Teabagger candidates. he is not the only one to engage in nonstop mendacity. Truth was an early casualty of their War on America.
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