Thursday, October 04, 2012
The Debate
Yes, Romney appears to have "won" the debate. The President appears to have been kind of listless, not that engaged, and not very aggressive at challenging Romney's untrue statements or defending his administration. I had, as other had, hoped that Obama was just playing rope-a-dope, but eventually you have to fight back. But still, team Obama is still left with a lot of points that they can use going forward. As I said years ago, Romney will never pass up a cheap and easy way to score political points, and the "fire Big Bird" thing is exactly that. Neil Tyson perfectly explains why it's one of those typical, symbolic, meaningless statements that Romney excels at. So, Obama still has plenty of time to recover, and hopefully he can do so.
Monday, October 01, 2012
Man this guy was prescient
Letter to the editor to the Boston Globe, 1/4/07
RECENT ARTICLES regarding outgoing Governor Romney's flurry of last-minute court and political appointments (Page A1, Jan. 3; City & Region, Dec. 21) make more and more clear Romney's true nature. He leaves Massachusetts as a typical 11th-hour political hack, despite his opposition to patronage.
Governor Romney leaves with no real record of accomplishment, despite his frequent claims to the contrary. He never met a promise he couldn't break or forget about, he never met an easy and cheap way to score political points he couldn't pass up (see the gay marriage issue, the toll booth issue, and his frequent out-of-state mockery of Massachusetts), and he never held a personal belief he couldn't cast aside when it became politically convenient (see abortion, stem cell research, and - again - gay marriage).
Governor Romney could be announcing his presidential candidacy soon. I hope that most Americans will come to see what we in Massachusetts have known for a while: Mitt Romney is a political con-artist.
JAMES KAPLAN
Watertown
Credit: Boston Globe
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