Snakes on a Campaign: Mitt Romney by the Southern Avenger

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's magical transformation from moderate, Northeastern Republican into a heartland "conservative," during his quest to become the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, is a study in conventional, political duplicity.

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[Thrashfan21]

What the Southern Avenger fails to tell everyone in this piece is that Ronald Reagan(the President Republicans admire more than any other) Actually was a Democrat at one time and also was a pro choice governor himself. So yes people have the right to change positions and parties over time. Nothing inherently wrong with that.

[Jack Hunter]

Harper's Magazine:"Romney and his handlers portray him as having undergone a political conversion, but they can't point to any convincing catalyst. There was no political awakening (as with Ronald Reagan, a New Deal Democrat who joined the Republican Party in 1962 and backed Barry Goldwater for president two years later, which at the time was hardly a politically savvy move)...

[Jack Hunter]

...With Romney, there's merely been the recent espousal of positions diametrically opposed to his earlier ones, feeding the suspicion that his political shifts are more reflective of his ambition than of his convictions."

[AntiFed1791]

Not a single Candidate, left or right, can compete with the voting record of Ron Paul.

If you aren't voting for Ron Paul, you're voting for the status quo. It's time for a change.

Vote Ron Paul!

[kebon]

Great piece - dying to watch the other major Snake, the master of pretention himself, Rudolfo Giuliani the Sicilian Snake.

Wake up America, the paradigm is shifting.

The Ron Paul Revolution is on!

[DecendantKnights OfMalta]

I personally admire Goldwater more.... not the actor..... i mean Reagan

[ErikLiberty]

Like what?

[Samuel Bunderson]

Chalk full of half truths

[overmind25]

It just proves Romney is another tryannt.

[ferrozm]

Conservative!? Ha! A governor who introduced a model of socialized health care that Hillary and Barack are proposing nation wide.

[Thrashfan21]

SA I wonder if you might be whistling a different tune now? You left out the quote where he says in his gubernatorial run "Call me old fashion, but I think marriage should be between a man and woman."

[shiftstart]

Romney is a charlatan CEO trying to sell to the conservative voters corporate stock that's about to go under.