“Met Romney last week,” he tweets. “Tough O
Chicago pros will be hard to beat unless he drops old friends from team and
hires some real pros. Doubtful.”
Such concern, echoed in the Wall Street Journal, of
course, is prompted by the health care tax/not-a-tax swan dive by Romney as he
perfects his love Roberts/hate Roberts stance on the Chief Justice.
While voters prepare to start paying serious attention
to 2012 election gymnastics, flip-flop records are being set by Romney’s
whirling dervish moves to the point that pundits are wondering if the
President, with his puny past record of reversals on the individual mandate,
stands a chance of competing.
“A foolish consistency,” Emerson wrote, “is the
hobgoblin of little minds.” By that measure, the former governor of
Massachusetts is the Einstein of modern politics.
Amid all this, the New York Times offers an OpEd argument that little has changed in the past half century:
“People on the political right have blamed the late
’60s for what they loathe about contemporary life--anything-goes sexuality,
cultural coarseness, multiculturalism. And people on the left buy into that,
seeing only the ’60s legacies of freedom that they define as progress. But what
the left and right respectively love and hate are mostly flip sides of the same
libertarian coin minted around 1967. Thanks to the ’60s, we are all shamelessly
selfish.”
Maybe so for Baby Boomers, but Romney’s antics for one even older observer recall
the first monologue of Bob Newhart, who back then was launching his comedic
career.
In the role of an airline pilot giving reassuring
information to passengers on the intercom, Newhart broke off to clear his
throat and ask nervously, “Would any of you folks back there recognize
Cleveland if you saw it?”
With Romney in the GOP cockpit, someone should turn on
the seat belt sign for the rest of the summer.
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