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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Mitt In A Nutshell

eyeglassgame in a comment thread at Balloon Juice offered this gem up.


Romney ran for governor of Massachusetts as a pro-choice moderate, because he thought he could get elected by running as a pro-choice moderate.
He ran for president last time as an anti-abortion conservative, because he thought he could get elected by running as an anti-abortion conservative.
He will run this time as an anti-health-care libertarian, because he thinks he can get elected by running as an anti-health-care libertarian.
If he thought he could get elected by running as a pirate, he would run as a pirate.


To that, I would add that he can't run as a pirate.  Obama already has that position well staked out.

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