Election Day is four weeks from today, and it seems as if the Romney campaign has rolled out Mitt 2.0 (or is it version 3, 4, 4 or 6?). Seriously, if you’re confused about who the GOP nominee is, you’re not alone.
Daily Kos put together a short but biting video of Mitt Romney debating Mitt Romney on three issues: his tax plan, the need to hire more teachers, and health coverage for people with pre-existing conditions: Mitt Romney debates himself
Obviously, Mitt Romney goes which ever way the wind blows…
Then there are the people who are now endorsing him, but saw that he never took a position he didn’t contradict himself on first. Hmmm…
GOP Leaders “Endorse” Mitt Romney for President
Four more weeks… Ugh.
My friend Cliff Schecter noted this phenomenon in his latest column for Al Jazeera English, “The Two Romneys” and offered President Obama some advice for the upcoming debates:
President Obama needs to go into the next debate with a simple theme – one which happens to have the benefit of being true. There is the Mitt Romney you see in public, and then there’s the Mitt Romney behind closed doors.
Public Mitt Romney loves all of humanity like it’s a baby cuddled close to his breast for protection. Private Mitt Romney thinks 47 per cent of us are moochers who are not worthy of his attention because we don’t support his candidacy, as we’re somehow not bedazzled by his heartlessness towards children of undocumented workers, attacks on women’s rights and serial abuse of hair product.
Public Mitt just hates offshoring. Behind-closed-doors Mitt used to attend secretive meetings while at Bain where he invested in a company that pioneered new methods for taking American jobs to China. Public Mitt just loves, (loves I tell you!), Medicare. The more private Mitt is meeting with his vice-presidential candidate, Paul Ryan, to figure out how to voucherise it.
Finally, you have public Mitt chastising President Obama for not being more “transparent”. Yet, Private Mitt thinks he should have the right to only share one year of his tax returns with those who would make the most powerful person in the land -breaking a tradition his father started and all modern presidential candidates have adhered to (although, in his defence, it may be because he got tax amnesty for 2009 and earlier, for using UBS accounts to avoid paying taxes for years – and that could make him look like a rich brat who lacks respect for the laws of the US, or something).
It’s going to be a long four weeks!
It’s Tuesday, that means I spent some time with GottaLaff of The Political Carnival talking about these stories and more:
VIDEO: Paul Ryan Walks Out On Local Reporter For Pressing Him On Taxes
VIDEO: The debate debate; let’s not forget what preceded it.
Tommy Thompson Forgets How Many Homes He Owns
Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister on Romney: “What I see is ignorance of what is reality.”
So much for Romney’s “bipartisanship” claims
Justice Scalia: Outlawing “homosexual sodomy” is a no-brainer
Denver restaurant receives threats after passing on Romney campaign stop