If you've spent as much time as I have studying Romney (weird I know) you'd know that what he was doing was not being dishonest or acting in self-interest, it was trying to be everyone's candidate.
2) Sure I could've gone on at great length about Romney's undeniable 180 degree flip on countless major issues, instead I chose that one sentence as a concise summary of a defense of an indefensible proposition---that Mitt Romney is no more wishy-washy or ungrounded or unprincipled than any other politician.
Seriously, can anyone think of another prominent politician who has changed his standing so completely and quickly on so many policies?
1) Then why quote me if I have nothing to do with the Republicans you're mentioning?
2) Go right ahead and do so. In case you don't know already, there are volumes of factual information available regarding Romney's actual record (not the one manufactured to smear him) in my post history. I reccommend you read up on that before spewing the repetitive, debunked nonsense I have spent years now dismissing. And yet somehow, people still think they're being original and intellectually challenging by questioning Romney's record on social issues. Thanks but no thanks.
1) My quoting you to critique your defending Romney and the comparison of many Romeny supporters criticizing Kerry as a flip-flopper were largely unrelated. The latter was merely a tangent I went off on. Again, "many Republicans", not "Fezzy Festoon".
2) No, I don't think questioning Romney's blatant wholesale flip-flopping on many issues is either original or intellectually challenging. It's like challenging DeMint or Inhofe for being extremely conservative, or former Rep. Bob Ney for being corrupt: Obvious on its face and well-documented in the public record. That's why I
tried to be concise (though am obviously failing the longer this back and forth goes on).
Now defending Romney as a man of principle who sticks to his guns--
that's "original and intellectually challenging", to put it nicely.
(BTW: Although I only recently began posting to the forum I've been an active lurker for almost three years. So trust me that I've read your and others' valiant attempts to spin Romney as ideologically consistant, I just don't buy it as all evidence is clearly to the contrary.)
