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McKay Coppins takes a look at how (and why) America's right is falling in love with Mitt Romney:
After a day spent waging bi-coastal combat with the Obama campaign, Mitt Romney's team in Boston earned the highest compliment Rush Limbaugh has ever paid them Thursday afternoon: "I'm telling you," he said. "This is not the McCain campaign."
Once-skeptical conservatives knew exactly what he meant. In the eyes of many on the right, John McCain's 2008 presidential bid was a disaster not because he lost, but because he refused to fight. Conservatives believe McCain bought into a liberal media narrative that personal attacks on Barack Obama were unseemly and even racist. The conservative caricature of Candidate McCain that emerged in the wake of the Republicans' defeat wasn't of an unreliable moderate rather, it was one of an Establishment figure paralyzed by political correctness, and unwilling to go blow for blow with Obama.
But if the Vietnam veteran disappointed conservatives with his gun-shy campaign in 2008, Romney is uniting the right by playing the role of the bomb-thrower.
To put it another way, these conservatives are realizing that Mitt Romney, Cranbook's senior bully, and Mitt Romney, 2012 Republican nominee, are one and the sameand they'd love nothing more than to see Eric Fehrnstrom pin President Obama to the floor as Willard shaves that crazy hair right off Obama's head, lest it turn into an Afro.
They really aren't paying attention the substance of what he says, at least when it comes to policy, because so much of what Romney says on policy is a jumbled mess of contradictions and falsehoods. But when Romney goes after Obama, it really gets them hot-and-bothered.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/01/1096482/-Right-wing-falls-in-love-with-Mitt-Romney-because-they-finally-realize-he-s-kind-of-a-jerk
warrior1
(12,325 posts)Wait till the debates.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)especially now that they believe Romney is a Mexican with only a "certificate of live birth," and is the father of Obama-care.
Just wait until they find out that Mitt dyes his hair and speaks French!
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Cognitive dissonance, party of one, your table is ready!