#Rick Santorum is right to carry around the Etch-a-Sketch--he can nail him all day long on being a flip-flopper

Rebecca Besbris  -  5:02 PM  -  Public

Not sure where the +Democratic National Committee is going with this ad? +Mitt Romney is the opposite of extreme--that's what his campaign manager is saying here. You have to be more to the fringes in the primary, then bring it back towards the center for the general. +Rick Santorum is right to carry around the Etch-a-Sketch--he can nail him all day long on being a flip-flopper. But the theme of this ad--that Romney is "unshakably extreme"? Well, that's ridiculous. Show him as a flip-flopper, sure. A panderer who will say anything to get votes. But trying to label Romney as extreme is akin to calling Taco Bell "Mexican food."

Mitt Romney: Unshakably Extreme

youtube.com – DNC Video: "Mitt Romney: Unshakably Extreme"

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Meg Tufano  -  +Jeffrey Raskin I live there. I live in Tennessee, in Appalachia, where people who have never paid an income tax in their lives (and there is no State income tax) want "lower taxes." They are the ones who will starve to death on the Republican budget, but they think that President Obama is not an American and not a Christian. It's really like a bad play.

Having re-read Hare's scary book recently (about psychopaths) ("Without a Conscience") and knowing that these political people now can use any money they want (remember when everyone was so afraid of "Chinese influence" on American politics? What does it mean to have a billionaire with factories in China spending billions on American campaigns?) I am more than a little afraid of what could happen here.

But we've been here before. And one thing about the truth: even if there is some intervening suffering, eventually the truth gets out. I think of the day Nixon left office: How in the world could anyonehave believed this man should be President? Ever?

One great thing about hubris, it usually pulls a person down fast. President Obama has said in varying places that he continually watches out for ego-inflation. The three candidates we've been looking at this year on the other side seem not to be so self-aware (putting it mildly).

A gaffe a day keeps them away from the Presidency? ;') (I don't really have a sense of humor at all about this . . . that "Don't Re-N--" Ad still has me sick to my stomach.)

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Jeffrey Raskin  -  +Meg Tufano The "people" did ultimately reject the "pallin' around with terrorists" meme last time, so there is certainly hope. And there aren't very many better communicators than this President. His speech in Oklahoma this morning on energy was classic.

But, as you note, Romney will have unlimited SuperPAC money at his disposal. That and his ruthlessness and his the fact that he does not care what he says will keep him in the game.

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