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He's pandering for votes, nothing else. He was against gay marriage before he was for it.
No,no,no servant this is an Obama thread....not a Romney thread( of course in Romney's case he was for it, before he realized he had to be against it to get the nomination ).
Mike, there's NO WAY they are willing to even go NEAR anything Romney's got to say on the issue I posted the links to FOUR of his positions in one message.
Here's more ... and this shit is fresh this week:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/07/opinion/frum-romney-errors/index.html?hpt=op_t1
Then two days ago, when pandering to, I mean campaigning in front of a group
Editor's note: David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of seven books, including his new first novel, "Patriots."
Washington (CNN) -- There is something tragic in the unfolding of Mitt Romney's campaign for president.
Here is a supremely intelligent and competent man, superbly qualified in so many ways for the highest executive office.
Yet through six years of campaigning for the presidency, he has allowed himself to be remade and redefined by his worst enemies.
It happened again last week.
The Romney campaign had hired a new foreign policy spokesman, Richard Grenell, a former aide to then-U.N. ambassador John Bolton.
Grenell is a fierce conservative who is also outspokenly gay. Grenell has taken strong public stances in favor of same-sex marriage. The Romney campaign knew all that when it hired him. Grenell had the competence to do the job, and nothing else mattered. As it shouldn't.
The hiring came under attack. As attacks go, this wasn't much: A couple of obnoxious blog posts and a tirade by a local radio host who runs a third-tier social conservative group. Still, the campaign opted to take cover. It reduced Grenell's visibility, keeping him off a conference call with media where someone might ask about the social-conservative criticism, that kind of thing.
Nobody at the campaign wanted to lose Grenell. In fact, he was repeatedly urged to stay. The campaign only wanted a discreet interval for the fuss to blow over.
The trouble was that Grenell got the job in the first place because he is a fighter. When the campaign wouldn't fight for him, he decided he wouldn't fight for it. He resigned. The hiring of Grenell interested only political insiders. His departure detonated one of Romney's worst news weeks.
Political professionals will remind us that there remain six months to November. By voting day, the Grenell story will have been long forgotten -- even by the comparatively small number of people who ever heard of it in the first place.
Maybe. But what a campaign does is paint an image of a candidate in the public mind. The Grenell flap added a stroke to that image: The Romney campaign yields to anti-gay intolerance. That stroke lands on top of other strokes, some fair, others unfair, but all together cohering into an ever-more focused picture.
For example: Romney did not initially support legislation that would allow all employers, religious or not, to drop birth control coverage from their health plans. That was introduced by Marco Rubio. Romney has campaigned with Rubio, and he's is much discussed as a possible Romney running mate. Although Romney has not made an issue of birth control, he will be wearing the issue in the general election.
A brand is not just something you make. It's also something that can happen to you if you don't speak out against it.
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At times, Romney has foreseen the danger and struggled to avoid it. He never intended to campaign in 2012 as an advocate of additional tax cuts. His carefully crafted economic plan of September 2011 proposed only to perpetuate the Bush tax cuts but nothing more. Through the early Republican primaries, however, Romney came under pressure to offer a bigger bid.
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