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January 09, 2007
Catching Mitt
Judging by his $6.5 million bonanza yesterday, Mitt Romney is about set to make his splash on the 2008 White House run. Is Romney as conservative as he sounds? Or a closeted liberal/John Kerry opportunist? The American Thinker runs two articles on Romney today, each taking opposite sides of the issue. Selwyn Duke, citing various flips and flops on abortion, taxes and gay rights, and the Governor's virtual-Hillary-Care solution to health care, says Romney's a garden variety Massachusetts liberal.
Au contraire, says Amy Goldstein. She attributes Romney's transformation to getting older and wiser, not to his interest in becoming President. "One is not endowed with wisdom, but has to come by it through life experience," she writes. "Leadership involves learning from those life experiences, adapting one's outlook and applying the learned lessons going forward. That is the process of political maturation, and Governor Romney had gone through that very process."
My own (admittedly cynical) view is that everything in politics is calculated. On both sides. All the time. Here, any jury would regard Romney's earlier comments as more reliable, since there's little reason to believe an ulterior motive was at work. Can't quite say that about Romney's warm-up for a White House run, aye? So I think Goldstein comes across as a bit of a naif.
Posted by bill at January 9, 2007 09:28 AM
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