New CNN poll has Obama up over Romney by 7 points — 52-45. Yesterday’s Ipsos poll had the same spread.
What’s remarkable to me about Romney’s flip flop problem is that he and the right fostered it together, with absolutely no help from Democrats.
This is a little bit meta, so bear with me. I’m not talking about Romney’s actual substantive history of holding wildly inconsistent policy views. I’m talking about the perennial campaign ritual of candidates defining themselves and being defined by their opponents. Read More
Is Romneycare Mitt’s Iraq War? From TPM Reader WB …
I was volunteering for Kerry when he made the comment about how he would have authorized the use of force in Iraq even knowing what we knew then. I still vividly remember the anguished conversations I had with fellow Kerry volunteers on the bus ride from RI to NH about the comments.
Is Romney flip-floppery just impossible to square with the GOP brand? TPM Reader CL says yes …
I think JR is right that the essence of the attack on Kerry was that he was inconsistent, flip-flopper, whatever. But I disagree that this is unimportant in the current election.
Ann Coulter says Romney campaign spokesperson Andrea Saul must be fired for touting Romneycare.
Mitt Romney on that now infamous photo of him and his Bain partners back in the day:
Not content to let Mars get all the attention, Earth shows what it’s got. Impressive.