Mitt Romney Will Not Live by Your Bourgeois Moral Standards
Mitt Romney Will Not Live by Your Bourgeois Moral Standards
by Steve M.
Wed May 30th, 2012 at 04:22:49 PM EST
I'm fascinated by the way Mitt Romney has become a proud, unabashed moral relativist.
It used to be that politicians dissociated themselves from supporters or staffers who said or did unsavory things because they wanted to be seen as believers in the notion that life requires certain standards of conduct. A lot of this has always been self-serving, of course, but the point has always been to identify oneself with the notion that there really are lines of decency that shouldn't be crossed.
Mitt Romney, as Byron York reminds us, thinks the morality of one's associates is irrelevant and calling out improper conduct is nothing but theater. He's not gonna live by your bourgeois, petty moral standards, maaaan!
Mitt Romney's refusal to repudiate Donald Trump sends a signal, both to Democrats and the voting public: With the nation's future at stake in this November's election, Romney will not accommodate calls that he disown supporters who make ill-considered, unpopular, or sometimes outrageous statements on matters not fundamental to the campaign.
(Let's stop right there -- what if Barack Obama had declared in 2008 that he wouldn't play the "repudiation game" with regard to "outrageous statements" such as ... oh, say, years-old remarks about America made by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright? Would Romney have backed up Obama's decision? I'm guessing not.)
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http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/5/30/162249/057
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