For me, Romney “vetting” involves his flip-flopping statements on issues from health care to gun control to human life.
Heck, Mitt told folks in Massachusetts that he believes in a “woman right to choose”, now he says something like “I’ve always been pro-life.”
Which statement is the true one?????????
There’s no doubt there’s stuff out on Romney and that more stuff could/should be thrown at him.
The question is whether it will stick at this point, and that’s what I’m analyzing.
Doesn’t matter how much dirt there is against Romney, of how much it stinks to high heaven, if other factors about the political zeitgeist make it “impossible” for that dirt to stick.
That’s why I’m arguing that to go for the juglar, it’s not enough to “further vet” Romney and hope that bloodying his nose makes people not want to vote for him.
You have to undermine the RATIONALE they are using to vote for him. And, as I look around at the political landscape, it seems to me that the major rationale they are using is that Romney is **perceived by them** (UGH - see my previous post) to be more electable than Gingrich.
Right now the “no one is perfect” and “I don’t care what he’s done so long as he can defeat Obama” memes are working in Gingrich’s AND Romney’s favor.
That fact needs to be clearly addressed.