@snood,
Quote:I don't understand why his lying ass doesn't get exposed more clearly, and why about half the voting public doesn't even care.
I don't either, I heard the craziest excuse yet for supporting Romney from David Brooks on Morning Joe yesterday. It all boiled down to, well, so Romney is a flip flopper that means that he will bendable when in the WH.
Quote:On Tuesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, co-host Willie Geist asked Brooks to elaborate on his endorsement and explain whether he was bothered by Romney’s apparent policy switches.
“It does trouble me,” Brooks said. “I mean, it disturbs me about how many different shapes he’s taken. It disturbs me, from a sheer management perspective. … If you work for a president who doesn’t know what he wants, then every policy decision has to start at square one, and there’s massive confusion. And so a lack of a consistency can really mess up a management structure.”
The area where it doesn’t bother me is this — we’re no longer in the Cold War,” Brooks continued. “We had a Cold War leadership model, which was the forthright person who is stalwart, who never bends, who is just strong — sort of the Margaret Thatcher [and] Ronald Reagan Cold War leadership. We’re no longer in a Cold War. Maybe we probably need a little different style of leadership — a little less stalwart … a little more flexible to deal with. What are essentially cross-cutting problems we have — we have three big problems, we’ve got growth, and we’ve got debt and inequality. It takes a bit of subtlety to deal with these three cross-cutting issues, and a little more pragmatism if you want to put it that way, would be useful. Nonetheless, opportunism, a little troubling.”
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I note they didn't bring up flat out lying, I'm wondering how that can be twisted to be a positive. Not to mention, from the policies that Romney has given out, none of them would address the problems laid in his "endorsement."
I don't think his bending would go so far as to support increase in revenue as well as cuts in so called "entitlements." I am betting democrats keep the senate, but I doubt by large enough margins to be able override the house and a republican white house. Most republicans signed that stupid pledge and won't even consider raising revenue. So I don't see the political landscape changing enough no matter who gets in there.