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Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
Didn't see any examples there, BigTurd.
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Apparently, StupidOldFart did not take the time to read the linked article or he certainly would have known they cited a few examples. Then again, StupidOldFart might not be intelligent enough to simply click on the link. Apparently, following a linked bouncing ball must be a huge stretch for someone as stupid as a StupidOldFart!
That being the case, I will make it easy for StupidOldFart and cut and paste a few of the specific "examples" taken from the Sacramento Bee Editorial Board. (Assuming that StupidOldFart is capable of following a non-linked bouncing ball.)
"The question of who the real Romney is has dogged his candidacy from the start. GOP rival Jon Huntsman once called him "a perfectly lubricated weather vane." The presidential debates highlighted this flaw for all to see.
For instance, on Monday night, Romney endorsed Obama's plan to withdraw nearly all
U.S. forces from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. This from the same man who repeatedly blasted the president for announcing a pullout timetable, saying that would only help the Taliban.
In the two earlier debates on domestic issues, Romney presented himself as the moderate Massachusetts governor, not the hard-line conservative he campaigned as while seeking the Republican nomination.
For instance, he earlier supported legislation that would allow employers to refuse to cover
birth control in their
health plans. But during the town hall forum in
New York last week, he declared that he doesn't "believe employers should tell someone whether they have contraceptive care or not."
In the first debate, he claimed that his incredibly vague, trust-me tax plan would not lower taxes paid by high-income Americans, though he has been suggesting the opposite the entire campaign and even though the few proposals he has released such as repealing the
estate tax and eliminating most taxes on
investment income would reduce the
tax burden on the rich.
There are many, many other examples.
Romney is trying to pull off these head-spinning political pirouettes despite the armies of fact checkers in the media. If his deeply cynical strategy succeeds, will it really matter again what candidates promise?
A senior adviser to Romney let the cat out of the bag in March. "I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes," Eric Fehrnstrom told CNN. "It's almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up, and we start all over again."
Maybe you can get away with that as a candidate. You can't as president."