Romney to Flip-flop If He Wins Convention

[BigSkyBob]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/top-romney-adviser-mitt-will-erase-his-conservative-positions-once-hes-the-nominee/2012/03/21/gIQAMYOlRS_blog.html

Romney advisor equates Romney breaking every promise he made to conservatives to win their votes with shaking an Etch A Sketch. The man has no core, and no principles other than the belief that he ought to be President.

[BigSkyBob]

Depending on the play this gets, the could give Santorum a final, last wind.

Probably not though.

That advisor ought to be fired, no one should be stupid enough to say that in public, even if everyone knows it is true.

It is Romney whom ought to be fired. Scapegoating an underlying for Romney's character flaws would just compound the offense.

[BigSkyBob]

Classical example of what happens when one blurs the line between what everybody knows and what everybody is supposed to know.

What the electorate should expect from politician is the Truth.

If "everyone" really knew it, it wouldn't be news. The point is that it is something everybody on the inside already knows, but is not stated because some of the benighted sheeple on the outside aren't aware of it, yet.

[BigSkyBob]

How did this guy get to be a campaign advisor?

The real question is how Romney was ever taken seriously as a candidate.

[BigSkyBob]

As usual, people start taking a statement out of context.

But this idiot of a so called advisor should be fired in no uncertain terms.

The statement simply wasn't "taken out of context."

[BigSkyBob]

As usual, people start taking a statement out of context.

But this idiot of a so called advisor should be fired in no uncertain terms.

The statement simply wasn't "taken out of context."

Obviously this stupid remark by this idiotic hopefully former advisor was taken out of context.

When one is in a Presidential campaign, it is conducted differently than a primary campaign.

No, in each case you state your case to the electorate. Everything said before the convention is as much a part of that case as things said after the convention.

While the remark was "stupid," it simply wasn't "taken out of context." He said what he meant, and meant what he said.

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How stupid do you think the folks here are?

[BigSkyBob]

You miss my point.

A Presidential campaign is obviously organized differently from a primary campaign.

Unless everyone working for the campaign is presumed to submit their resignation the day after the convention, any Etch-A-Sketch analogy isn't accurate. Team Romney will stay. Only his promises to Republican primary voters will be discarded.

His meaning was clear: the words Mitt Romney used to pursue the nomination were not in any way binding on Mitt Romney the moment he seizes the nomination. Why should "swing" voters in the general believe a single word Romney has to say to them after the words he said to primary voters were rescinded the minute he seized the nomination?

[BigSkyBob]

It is really sad to see those who despise Romney so much latch onto a stupid statement by an idiotic campaign advisor about using a ridiculous etch a sketch analogy and blowing it completely out of all proportion and turning it into something completely different than what was intended by the one who made the statement.

I think that "idiotic" adviser said what he meant, and meant what he said: swing voters in the fall matter to him, and rank-and-file Republican don't. That has been pretty much SOP for establishment Republicans. The only thing he'd think was "idiotic" was making that revelation while his campaign was still in boob-bait-for-bubba mode.

The actual conservative whom helped Romney turn around his debate performances against Gingrich was fired. Given that track record, this moderate will probably be promoted, and, promised a cushy job.