Thursday, July 05, 2012
Ouch! WSJ compares Mitt to John Kerry
Rubert Murdoch, who has been critical of Mitt Romney’s campaign staff and style, let his Wall Street Journal uncork today on the likely GOP nominee’s initial refusal, via his spokesmen, to call the ObamaCare individual-mandate penalty a “tax,” as the Supreme Court has called it. But of course, the Romney camp has now shifted gears. So Romney has managed now to achieve a negative threefer: A.) He’s angered his GOP base by throwing a good issue to the side. B.) Let Obama off the hook by throwing away a good issue. C.) Given ammo to those who say’s he’s an incurable flip-flopper like, as the WSJ suggests, John Kerry. … But fear not, alleged conservatives: William Kristol has the perfect rationale for you to get through the elections, i.e. look-the-other-way partisanship, similar to what the conservative “movement” did through most of last decade when a sitting GOP president and Republican-dominated Congress acted like Democrats:
Rubert Murdoch, who has been critical of Mitt Romney’s campaign staff and style, let his Wall Street Journal uncork today on the likely GOP nominee’s initial refusal, via his spokesmen, to call the ObamaCare individual-mandate penalty a “tax,” as the Supreme Court has called it. But of course, the Romney camp has now shifted gears. So Romney has managed now to achieve a negative threefer: A.) He’s angered his GOP base by throwing a good issue to the side. B.) Let Obama off the hook by throwing away a good issue. C.) Given ammo to those who say’s he’s an incurable flip-flopper like, as the WSJ suggests, John Kerry. … But fear not, alleged conservatives: William Kristol has the perfect rationale for you to get through the elections, i.e. look-the-other-way partisanship, similar to what the conservative “movement” did through most of last decade when a sitting GOP president and Republican-dominated Congress acted like Democrats:
“We shouldn’t lose sight of the forest for the trees. The trees are the tactical and rhetorical missteps of the Romney campaign, and the problems posed by Romney’s Massachusetts record,” said conservative William Kristol.
“The forest, which matters much, much more, is that Obamacare is unpopular, and Romney opposed it and will repeal and replace it.”Classic. It's all about winning elections. Principles? Who needs stinkin' principles!
