Sometimes, the amount of gaslighting and bad faith emanating from the MSM is almost beyond belief.
Politico, a left-wing political news organization, has produced this doozy of an article titled, “I haven’t changed, even if Washington has, Mitt Romney says.” In it, that news source reported on CNN’s interview with Mitt Romney, the retiring Utah Senator and the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, in an incredibly sympathetic manner. The final quote of the piece was, as said by Romney – “I think we really want to have people of faith who believe in something bigger than themselves.”
Of course, the theme of the article, and of the interview itself, is the contrast between the fine, upstanding, godly, and principled politician, Mitt Romney, and the current Republican leader, you-know-who (the guy whose name rhymes with Ronald Stump).
Now, I voted for Mitt Romney in 2012 in the general election. It was not a close call. Barack Obama was a disaster as president. He was dishonest, an arch-leftist, and a would-be- authoritarian to boot. The fact that Mitt Romney was not my favorite Republican candidate was immaterial to that vote. And I would vote for Mitt Romney again in 2028 if he faced a Democrat similar to Obama.
But, even during the height of the campaign of 2012, if you had told me that Romney was a godly man of true principle who hadn’t changed over time, even if Washington around him had, I certainly would have burst out laughing. As everyone knew, Mitt Romney was one of the most flexible politicians ever, who changed his positions and ideology whenever it helped him politically.
For example, I assume, as a man who claims to be a faithful Mormon, Mitt Romney was originally very socially conservative, especially on abortion. However, when he first ran for political office in very pro-choice Massachusetts, challenging former Senator Ted Kennedy in 1994, Romney pledged, “I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country.” And when he ran in 2002 for governor, also in Massachusetts, Romney assured voters that “I will preserve and protect a woman’s right to choose and am devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard.”
But then, when Romney ran for president in 2008 and 2012, he switched (back?) to a pro-life position. In 2011, the year before becoming the Republican nominee, he wrote (in the National Review), “I am pro-life and believe that abortion should be limited to only instances of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. I support the reversal of Roe vs. Wade, because it is bad law and bad medicine.” He also promised to appoint pro-life judges.
And as a U.S. Senator in Utah, a heavily pro-life state, Mitt Romney has maintained this pro-life stance, which is required in that Mormon majority state.
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So, what we have here is Mitt Romney, the epitome of a politician as political chameleon and a flip-flopper on the issues, being portrayed by the MSM as a man of principle and faith. Because, as we all know, now is the time for the MSM to develop its “strange new respect” for the old Republican Big Bad whom they once thought was a greedy corporate crook who gave someone cancer, wanted to put blacks back in chains, bully gays, and, yes, was a Nazi who wanted to be another “Hitler.” All to slam the current Republican Big Bad, Donald Trump. Again.
As I said before, this is almost beyond belief.
There are two ways I will respond to this. The higher-level approach, channeling Daniel Hannan, “MSM, when you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that Mitt Romney is more godly and principled man than Donald Trump, now that Romney is retiring and Trump is about to become president, I have to tell you, you sound like a Brezhnev-era Apparatchik giving the party line. You know, and we know, and you know that we know that it’s nonsense.”
Or I could take the lower-level, cruder approach. “MSM, do me a small favor here and stop p*ssing on my leg and telling me it’s raining.”
