We aren’t sure why Mitt Romney makes for such an inviting target but it doesn’t take an advanced degree to figure out why he’s become such a marked candidate -- if nobody cared and he wasn’t a frontrunner here in NH primary land, he wouldn’t have these Charlie Brown moments wondering why “everybody’s picking on me.”
Consider the line-up of foes:
On any given day fellow Republican presidential wannabe Sam Brownback throws frequent haymakers at the former Massachusetts governor in an attempt to warn (loudly) conservatives that Romney is a Trojan Horse.
Or it could be the mysterious dolphin (as in flip-flop) that has dogged Romney on the campaign trail for months.
Or one of his hypervigilant aides who loved flashing around fake law enforcement credentials to, we presume, intimidate the vampire press into a coma state of affairs.
Or the folks at the Massachusetts Democratic Party who know him best and have done their best to highlight Romney’s extensive track record of, to put it diplomatically, evolving policy positions that amazingly all trend towards the, ah, conservative corner. Just in time to be a good reporter’s source, those helpful Mass Dems have created a www.romneyfacts.com which offers a comprehensive listing of Romney’s ever-evolving philosophy. They are even selling Mitt Romney flip flop t-shirts (at $15 a pop) for both leisure and politically formal occasions, I imagine.
“Our volunteers have begun attending Mitt’s events to call attention to the former Governor’s serious flip flops on issues important to voters, and these t-shirts serve as a visual reminder” said party chairman John Walsh in a press release I received. “It’s all in good fun until you realize that Mitt Romney has a real problem being straight with the American people, and that time and time again he has demonstrated a willingness to say anything and everything to get elected.”
This my friends is how politicians, rightly or wrongly, get measured (or tarred and feathered depending on your perspective) for being a pol who will say “anything to get elected.”
The potential pitfall for the Mittster is that it’s all on the record but he will have plenty of opportunity to separate the evolutionary from the merely flip-floppy. Of course, he also has to contend with honest and quite capable NH advisors like Donna Sytek who spilled the beans on Arnie Arnesens Political Chowder show this past weekend. Sytek, a former NH Speaker of the House, really likes her guy’s chances in first-in-the-solar-system primary land but she’s less certain about he will play nationally.
It could be worse. After all, wait until word spreads just how much time Romney spent out-of-state running and running for President while still, rumor has it, serving as Governor.
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