Romney's Campaign Efforts DESTROY The MSM Talking Point That The Country Is More Conservative
The corporate media repeatedly pushes the talking point that the Nation leans conservative. Indeed, many folks have deluded themselves into believing this talking point. Yet, Mitt Romney’s 11th hour moderate makeover in which he contradicted positions that he advocated through September of this year undermines this talking point.
With the first debate, Mitt introduced the character of moderate Mitt who was not for tax cuts to the rich, was for the auto bailout, who had no plans for anti-abortion legislation, wanted to protect Medicare and Social Security, and was open to barring insurance companies from refusing coverage based on pre-existing conditions. Suddenly, Mitt’s fortunes in the polls went from dismal to competitive. Heck, by the third debate, Mitt’s best rejoinder to President Obama’s foreign policy positions was a “me too.” Gone were the references to Russia as America’s number one threat or easy trip wires to a war with Iran.
Perhaps to the chagrin of the right wing, Mitt’s election fortunes actually improved a bit with the new moderate Mitt contradicting and disavowing the positions taken for the months by the Mitt that actually won the Republican primary. Yet, Mitt still remains on the road to an election loss mainly because few people trust him anymore given his minute by minute changes in position based on the audience of the moment.
Nonetheless, the only reason why this race is competitive is that, in addition to hundreds of millions of corporate money, Mitt has muddled right wing positions and kept silent about the specifics of the right wing policies that he has advocated such as how he pays for his $6 trillion tax cut. Thus, rather than show that the Nation has moved to the right, Mitt has only managed to make up ground against President Obama by muddling the distinctions between himself and President Obama.
If the Nation were truly conservative, Romney would have been winning going away at the end of September and, rather than muddle his positions and lie, Romney would be doubling down on the right wing rhetoric and positions he was pushing during the primaries. Instead, Romney is doing his best to avoid discussing the specifics of his platform while President Obama is the one getting more specific as to how his economic plans add up as we approach the election.
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Really spot-on!
