What's also disappointing is how, once again, Romney shows he has no core. As Jennifer Rubin reported, Romney did almost nothing to defend Grenell.:
During the two weeks after Grenell's hiring was announced the Romney campaign did not put Grenell out to comment on national security matters and did not use him on a press foreign policy conference call. Despite the controversy in new media and in conservative circles, there was no public statement of support for Grenell by the campaign and no supportive social conservatives were enlisted to calm the waters.
I guess if you stand in front of Romney's ambitions he will throw you under the bus and won't even think about defending you (that would require a backbone and strength of conviction, which Romney's record shows he doesn't have). Isn't that the type of thinking we are trying to get OUT of the White House?
Romney has got himself caught between a rock and a hard place.
ReplyDeleteHe was willing to kiss up to gays to get what he wanted in Massachusetts back when they were needed to win the governorship and he delivered all their radical agenda objectives as agreed, but now he can't win the presidency without the social conservatives...so he's hired Mike Biundo, Santorum's guy to try to get the evangelical social conservatives on board the Romney train...but that means friction with the gays and their coterie, who have been on board with Obama and have gotten great gains (but not fast enough to suit them). Romney can't have both the social conservatives (pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, pro-abstinence) and the 'gays'...so he's got problems.
Grenell is an overtly gay 'married' man who is gay first and foremost. That means he won't be able to 'tolerate' the social conservatives Romney is now having to kiss up to in order to pretend to be 'severely conservative.'
Where does Romney, who has taken every possible position, sometimes within a single campaign, REALLY stand? Romneyis first and foremost pro-Romney. He can be as pro or con any issue or position as needed for any audience. Romney is flexible. He has proven he has no principle or position that he would not abandon, compromise or reverse for a vote or a dollar.
Here is Romney's wife testifying to that: "He never takes anything at face value; he can argue any side of a question. And sometimes you think he's like really believing his argument, but he's not."
I think you have that exactly right
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