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Ron Fournier, a political reporter for the AP, offers a harsh assessment of Mr. Magic Underwear that makes Romney seem less trustworthy than even Giuliani. Mittens wants all the Fundie vote but he will have to split it with the Huckster and the Hutt.
Analysis: Mitt won, authenticity lost
Posted by Ron Fournier/Associated Press
January 15, 2008 21:53PM
WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney's victory in Michigan was a defeat for authenticity in politics. The former Massachusetts governor pandered to voters, distorted his opponents' record and continued to show why he's the most malleable -- and least credible -- major presidential candidate. And it worked.
This is a man who campaigned for governor of Democratic stronghold Massachusetts as a supporter of abortion rights, gay rights and gun control -- only to switch sides on those and other issues in time for the GOP presidential race. The first thing he did as a presidential contender in January was sign the same no-tax pledge an aide dismissed as "government by gimmickry" during the 2002 campaign.
He was a political independent who voted for Democrat Paul Tsongas in the 1992 Massachusetts presidential primary; now he is a Reagan conservative. He was for embryonic stem cell research; now he favors restrictions on it.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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