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Owner59 -> Principles...?.....what principles?....... (11/1/2011 5:30:22 PM)
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Mitt Romney: The Candidate You Can Push Around
This past weekend's big political column came from syndicated columnist George Will, who called out Mitt Romney at length for his serial flip-flops and lack of authenticity in a piece titled "Mitt Romney, the pretzel candidate."
-busting law enacted by Ohio Governor John Kasich, which is facing a possible repeal via a ballot initiative. The move was followed by a next day recantation."
Perry is the one who stood on principles and what did that get him?
More:
"If you look at what's happened during the campaign, you can see the attitude of the GOP's base voters aligning in a way favorable to Romney. When Rick Perry jumped into the race, he was immediately hailed as the top not-Romney in the field, and his presumed broad appeal very quickly presented itself in the polls, where he shot to frontrunner status. But pretty soon, he was taking shots for parts of his record as governor -- most notably his support for state-mandated HPV vaccinations and the provision of educational opportunities to the children of undocumented immigrants.
Perry attempted to parry these attacks by standing behind principles -- he did the right thing, in both cases, under the circumstances. But standing by his principles brought him no end of grief. He countered by referring to his opponents as heartless. That only made matters worse: Within days, his once promising standing in the polls had all but evaporated.
So, in 2012, what's so great about having principles? Sure, Romney might, as David Plouffe suggested, have nothing but an empty space where is "core" should be, but Romney's awkward, rapid repositioning in Ohio demonstrates that you can rent that space for cheap. Your other GOP frontrunner of the moment, Herman Cain, has evinced a similar malleability. Don't like his "9-9-9 plan?"
Well, it's a "9-0-9" plan now! What is it that you want Cain to say about abortion? Fine, that's what he thinks now."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/mitt-romney-the-candidate_n_1070245.html?ref=politics
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