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Thursday 11 October 2012
Mitt Romney Leads Us Into An Age Of Stupidity

A popular YouTube video compiles some of Romney’s biggest flip-flops through the years. By the end of it, you wonder if he’s an acute schizophrenic, a pathological liar, or someone who’s simply honing his views to please the conservatives. Romney has said that he’s dead set against letting lobbyists run a campaign, but he has had at least three of them working on his. He wants universal coverage, but when it’s called Obamacare, the ex-gov is against it—though wait, it turns out that he does like some of it. He supported strong gun laws, then tried to distance himself from that, no doubt to curry favor with weapon holders. He reversed on Social Security benefits and did somersaults on abortion. (In 1994, he was crazy for Roe v. Wade, but more recently, he said he wants it overturned. At least he acknowledged his turnaround and said his original opinion was wrong. Not as wrong as the new one!)

Romney’s also divided himself about bailouts, No Child Left Behind, and whether gays should serve openly in the military. Mitt Romney doesn’t want government to step in and take care of all your problems. He just wants it to step in and cause you problems by denying rights to gays, women, the needy, and the arts.

And when he does slip and say what he means, he gets in serious trouble. His instantly immortal remarks about 47 percent of America being dependent losers—remarks he finally admitted were “just completely wrong,” like liking Roe v. Wade—showed a patronizing lack of insight or compassion. (Is he aware that you actually pay for your Social Security benefits with money taken out of your paychecks your entire life? This is not any kind of handout, Mittens.) And how would Mitt solve the foreclosure crisis? By limiting the tax write-off for desperate people paying off their mortgages. Brilliant, no?

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