11-30-2007, 08:04 PM | #1 |
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Romney's strategy is easy to see and somewhat understandable
Romney knows gun and Bible totin' Republicans are scared of Giuliani, the anti-gun Catholic Italian agnostic from New York City with the lisp. But many of them still support Giuliani simply because they're more scared of Muslims (these people's world view is all about paranoia and nativism, see Tex), and they perceive Giuliani as the guy who's going to competently show the Muslims what for.
Romney wants to out-hawk Giuliani. He thinks that if he can it'll be check mate. And he figures that if meanwhile he pisses off Waters, Cali and SeattleUte that's fine becuase we aren't going to be annointing the Republican nominee anyway. We saw a glimpse of what's going on in Romney's head when he even went off topic to say that Guantanamo is such a wonderful thing and those Arabs don't deserve lawyers, then making a gratuitous left cut against the ACLU. He's about the most cynical candidate I've ever seen. It's so easy to tell Romney thinks this whole process is just pure bullshit and he's gaming it. No one knows better than Romney what asses are the masses.
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... or voting Republican in the national election.
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I agree that Romney looked bad in that response. I was offended by the swipe at the ACLU (even though I don't particualrly care for it all the time, Ijust thought it was so transparent).
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Maybe he will win. Maybe he won't be such a bad president.
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11-30-2007, 08:34 PM | #6 |
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The swipe against the ACLU was very 80s-ish. Like he is trying to win the nomination against Dukakis. I was surprised he couldn't throwing something in about flag burning and gay marriage as well.
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Is Romney different than any other politician?
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