The foreign policy elephant Romney's trying not to think about.
The wobbly center of Mitt's political ambition is
the "brainwashing" comment that brought his father
down. I believe that undoing the disaster of George's comment
from 1967 is why the son ran for President in 2008 and is running
again in 2012. The son is running to redeem the father, and
that means first & foremost not making the same political
blunder the father made.
Mitt was in France when his father blurted out that honest
& enlightened statement about Vietnam.
Mitt determined then or later to never make the same
mistake--basically, to lie and hide what he feels &
believes to such an extent that he's lost track of the truth
himself, of who he is. Words are tools for climbing the
ladder, they have no inherent worth of their own.
Never reveal yourself, never admit you're wrong, and when
you change your mind, simply pretend you haven't changed your
mind. The alternative is disaster, defeat, public humiliation.
That fearful mindset is at work in all his mirage-like policy
positions, but he's most vulnerable on foreign policy,
because that's where his father crashed and burned.
Look at the disastrous foreign trip Mitt had
during the campaign, one mortifying bungle after
another, partly because he was so conscious of trying
NOT to blunder. He's haunted by the ghost of "brainwashing."
To him the sound of the very word brainwashing must be like
chains dragging across a dungeon floor..
I wouldn't be surprised to see Romney have some huge gaffe in this
coming debate, a gaffe that will match Ford's bonehead comment
about no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, or worse,
primarily because that's all he'll be thinking about--NOT
making the kind of disastrous blunder his father made
45 years ago that meant the downfall of his entire campaign.
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believes to such an extent that he's lost track of the truth
himself, of who he is. Words are tools for climbing the
ladder, they have no inherent worth of their own."
mitt has Insulted the Intelligence of the American People for too long and I want him to feel the full wrath and fury of the People he's scorned.
Willard should be quite comfortable with "brainwashing"
the technique) because that's what he, Ryan, fox, hate radio, Billy Graham et al are so expert at performing.
New Ad From Team O out on mitt's ..5 Step approach to Foreign Policy.
Step 1: Get the facts wrong.
Step 2: Undermine long-standing relationships with your allies.
Step 3: Frequently highlight your lack of experience.
Step 4: Assemble a team of ideologues committed to endless war.
Step 5: Mistake your enemies.
h/t ProSense http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021587679
I saw the look on his face when Candy Crowley and Pres Obama corrected his lie..he doesn't want that humiliation again, either. Bob Schieffer will probably be a pushover like Jim Lerher..hope I'm wrong.
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