I knew Ronald Reagan. Mitt Romney is NO Ronald Reagan!
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Again I say, I don't really want to keep bagging on Mitt Romney, but there are some things, like his claim of roadside weeping, that just cannot be allowed to pass. The basic problem for the guy who once dissed Ronald Reagan and now claims to be his closest heir is that, unlike the Gipper, Mitt Romney's word cannot be taken with much more than a grain of salt. It's all about credibility.
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First came the claim, in front of a pro-gun audience, that he was a life-long hunter, followed by the revelation that he in fact, at best, hunted some sort of small varmits. Last weekend on Meet the Press, he said he received the endorsement of the NRA during the 2002 governor campaign, which turned out to be false. This week brought memories of watching his father march with Martin Luther King which were, well, also not really true...
"He was speaking figuratively, not literally," Eric Fehrnstrom, spokesman for the Romney campaign, said of the candidate.
With each passing day, it is apparent that Mr. Romney will say anything in a given moment, true or not, in order to pander to whoever he happens to be talking to at the time. And guess what? You thought that, given the week's end and the approach of the holiday weekend, Mitt might just stop for a spell, right? Wrong!(He really can't help himself) He's still at it, like some evil Energizer Bunny...
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As part of her "primary questions" project, Katie Couric asked all of the candidates about the last time they lost their temper and what happened. Romney said he doesn't lose his temper but instead becomes "intense." He went on to note that the last time was in a radio interview w/ Jan Mickelson in Iowa, during which he said Mickelson attacked his faith. He said the radio station had "hidden cameras" and the incident ended up all over the Internet. Click here to watch what he said to Couric. OOPS! On Dec. 19th, Mickelson heard about this and just about hit the fan. The audio is attached in a YouTube, which you can listen to here.
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Mickelson brings on the guy who videotapes the interviews with presidential candidates and they talk about how there were two cameras in the studio -- one two feet from Romney's face -- and all kinds of lights for filming. There were no "hidden cameras" and there was no way he didn't know they were taping. Moreover they say Romney's campaign called right afterwards and asked the station to take the video down but then later that day put it up on their own YouTube account. (This is obviuosly a big deal in Iowa circles because Mickelson is the biggest conservative talker in the state and basically spent 10 minutes proving Mitt a liar.)
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Thus it only got all over the Internet -- as Romney complained to Couric -- because Romney's own campaign thought it'd help him and posted it. It's still on their YouTube account! Doesn't this sound eerily similar to the "ant-Mitt" phone push-polling story that points to the campaign actually being the culprit?
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Sorry Mr. Romney, I know John Kerry, and you ARE John Kerry! (...Or is it Pinnochio?)
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