Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Mitt's Willie Horton moment? Part V
It ain't going away -- at least locally. Some of the recent local stories and commentary can be found here, here, here and here. Nationally? I don't know. The Washington Post editorialists are tut-tutting the affair in their typically boring MSM fashion. Yet I'm more interested in how this might be playing out within the GOP base. This National Review update seems to capture the crux of Mitt's vulnerability:
Blurred distinctions are hard to spin away. ...
It ain't going away -- at least locally. Some of the recent local stories and commentary can be found here, here, here and here. Nationally? I don't know. The Washington Post editorialists are tut-tutting the affair in their typically boring MSM fashion. Yet I'm more interested in how this might be playing out within the GOP base. This National Review update seems to capture the crux of Mitt's vulnerability:
(Blogger) Ed Morrissey says the Horton meme should be shot down, and indeed, Dukakis was more responsible for the weekend furlough program than Romney is for Tuttman's decision. But the true-crime visuals of this story - the thug's fearsome mugshot, the grisly crime scene - will probably blur those distinctions.
... Well, Romney's going to get a lot of questions about it, and he's going to be left with that answer, that her record suggested she would be tough on crime. He's going to be asked, "If you could be wrong in your assessment of her, could your assessment be wrong on other appointees? How about a Supreme Court justice?"
Blurred distinctions are hard to spin away. ...
