Posted on 04/16/2012 5:04:21 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
In the race to define Mitt Romney as he pivots from the Republican primary to the general election, President Barack Obama’s advisers are no longer making the case that the former Massachusetts governor has no “core.”
Instead, they are now arguing that all the conservative positions Mr. Romney has taken in the 2008 and 2012 presidential primaries reflect his true beliefs –- an effort to keep him from tacking to the center and appealing to independent voters, who are decisive in a general election.
If Mr. Romney were elected in November, a senior administration official said Monday, Americans would get a president who would: outlaw abortions, amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage, deport the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., veto the Dream Act that would give some immigrants a path to citizenship, adopt every conservative GOP economic and fiscal policy idea and extend America’s military engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The new effort to define Mr. Romney marks a shift for the Obama team, which has previously painted the former Massachusetts governor as a flip-flopper who takes positions purely to win elections. Last fall, Mr. Obama’s longtime political adviser David Axelrod told CBS that “there is no core to him” – a catchphrase he has frequently used since.
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And they say that like that would be a bad thing.
I wish I had that kind of confidence in Romney. I'd be happy if he gets half of those things done.
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