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Showing Original Post only (View all)The GOP's Kamikaze Candidate-"Republicans have selected the worst candidate in recent memory" [View all]
The GOP's Kamikaze CandidateSTEVE ERICKSON AUGUST 8, 2012
In their desperation to oust President Obama, Republicans have selected the worst presidential candidate in recent memory.
Whatever else was true of him, no one doubted Richard Nixon was a man of ability. Whatever else was true of him, no one doubted Barry Goldwater was a man of conviction. No one doubted that Gerald Ford was a man of integrity, or that Ronald Reagan was a man of eloquence, or that George Herbert Walker Bush was a man of experience, or that Robert Dole was a man of legislative accomplishment, or that George W. Bush was a man of crusty charisma, or that John McCain was a man of heroism. Nothing weve seen of him so far indicates that Mitt Romney shares a single one of these qualities. Craven, arrogant, empty, dull, opportunistiches a man of only ambition and acquisition, his distinctions the antitheses of all the attributes that have commended others to his party in the past. As such he reflects what the party has become: a political body so obsessed with defeating the president as to nominate a man known for but a single thing, which is that the name those mysterious tax records bear is not Barack Obama.
http://prospect.org/article/gops-kamikaze-candidate
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The GOP's Kamikaze Candidate-"Republicans have selected the worst candidate in recent memory" [View all]
kpete
Aug 2012
OP
wait, mr. sure-i'll-pardon-a-criminal-for-the-presidency was a man in integrity?
unblock
Aug 2012
#4
Romney was simply the least offensive, and limped into winning because he seemed more electable.
progressivebydesign
Aug 2012
#9
"opportunistic" says it all in a nutshell. This is the 1% going for broke.
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2012
#30