Romney Hoax Fails To Fool Evangelicals That He Is a Conservative
By Gregg Jackson
Tuesday, December 11, 2007The Mitt Romney candidacy is in its own surreal way like a re-enactment of the O.J. trial. Most of the major talk radio hosts are like O.J.’s legal team, led by Mitt’s John the Baptist, Hugh Hewitt. Hugh declared in his commentary on the speech that anyone who doesn’t agree with him that Mitt is the Republican Savior is “not to be trusted.” Trusted?
It’s like the O.J. trial in one simple way: Mitt’s “lawyers” are turning reality upside down in the court of public opinion. Republican primary voters are the O.J. jury and they will decide whom to believe: (1) Romniacs who believe Mitt is the conservative messiah or (2) Mitt’s political record, which is the most liberal of any presidential candidate on stage – Republican or Democrat.
Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney greets a shopper at a mall in downtown Des Moines, December 11, 2007. Romney campaigned in Des Moines before the January 3 Iowa caucuses. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES) The biggest question after Romney’s religion speech is: How long can right wing talk radio deceive Americans that Mitt is the victim of a vast right wing conspiracy of bigots attacking him for his religion? The next biggest question is: how long can Americans accept the irrational idea that Mitt is the alpha and omega of the political spectrum – John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan?
And finally, how long can this enormous political hoax that Romney is The Conservative Dragon-Lady Slayer be sustained when his Hillary-like governor’s record is right out there for all to see?