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07/24/2012

Mysterious Mitt

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Signe Wilkinson gets to sneak one more Aurora Shooting cartoon into the mix because it's really a slap upside the head of a candidate who refuses to tell us anything about himself and denies the things we already know.

Apparently, Romney was for assault gun bans before he was against them. Granted, it may be that in the wake of his assault gun ban, he had so many sensible advocates of a well-regulated militia that never meets, never drills, doesn't keep rosters and has no rules come speak to him on the topic that he genuinely changed his mind.

Genuinely, that is, in the sense that he no longer believes in banning assault weapons, no longer feels, "I believe the people should have the right to bear arms, but I don’t believe that we have to have assault weapons as part of our personal arsenal."

I don't mean "changed his mind" in the sense that he realized he'd have greater political success by taking the opposite tack.

The latter being the legislative equivalent of the "I'm sorry if anyone was offended" apology: "Not sorry I said it. Sorry you're so damned oversensitive. And I'm not sorry I banned assault weapons, but I'm sorry I angered a large and well-funded lobbying group."

WHAT-ever.

Mysterious Mitt Romney continues to run on a platform of being the candidate.

It's not an easy task. Tom Tomorrow apparently feels a little sorry for the poor fellow:

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Maybe he could bring in the Harry Nilsson/Ringo Starr fan base by adopting the motto: "A point in every direction is the same as no point at all," but, if the critical Nilsson/Starr bloc is his goal, he seems more attuned to "You see what you want to see and you hear what you want to hear."

Rock on, Mysterious Mitt.

 

 

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Gilda Blackmore

Oooh! I didn't know anyone else in the world remembered "The Point". Hooray for you. You always (well, nearly always) have a point!

Posted by: Gilda Blackmore | 07/24/2012 at 10:40 PM

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