Talkie show host Piers Morgan thinks that Mitt Romney's business "experience", consisting of cutting up corporations and selling them for profit, and asking for huge donations to bail out the Salt Lake City Olympics, constitutes enough acumen improve our country's economic fortunes. Even despite the prognostications that massive budget cuts that would be necessary to reduce the budget deficit would push our economy right back into recession promptly.
But ignoring that, here's what Piers says about the man that Republicans are going to vote for:
"He’s also one of the least principled politicians I’ve ever encountered. There’s barely a big issue that Romney hasn’t switched his position on for apparent political expediency, earning him the nickname ‘Mr Flip Flop’.
In fact, it’s hard to even recognise the new Mitt from the one who was a successful and popular Governor of Massachusetts.
On abortion, he was once firmly pro-choice, now he’s equally firmly pro-life.
On guns, he outlawed lethal assault weapons. Now he says they’re fine, despite a rash of horrific recent mass gun killings.
On healthcare, he was the first governor to bring in a compulsory ‘mandate’health insurance scheme. But when Obama did the same thing, he lambasted it as a terrible idea.
He was also a huge fan of stem-cell research, but now he says he’s been ‘persuaded that the stem-cell debate was grounded in a false premise’.
Each move was dictated by the need to make him more electable – not to the wider public, but to his own party members, particularly the more Right-wing Tea Party element, so he could win the Republican nomination during the Primary race – and it worked.
But now he’s approaching the actual general election, he’s started moderating his positions once again. To widespread mockery, he said this week he wouldn’t seek any anti-abortion legislation if he became President, a direct contradiction of what he said at the start of the year. ‘Here’s old moderate Mitt!’ chortled former President Bill Clinton. ‘Where you been boy? . . . Just show up with a sunny face and say, “I didn’t say all that stuff I said for the last few years.” ’
Rick Santorum was right. The Etch-a-Sketch plan is kicking in. And the Republicans are buying what Mitt's selling.
Those of us watching the campaign knew this would happen -- knew it had to happen for Mittens to have a chance.
But will it work?
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