Steven Pearlstein: A tale of two Mitts
By Steven Pearlstein,
WashPost
Tuesday, June 7, 6:32 PM
The Good Mitt could be the next president of the United States. The Bad Mitt won’t make it past Super Tuesday. The problem for governor Romney is that he just can’t decide which Mitt he wants to be.
I found both Mitts while reading his obligatory pre-campaign book, “No Apology,” with the lapel-pin subtitle, “Believe in America.”
Despite what you might think from the title, the book doesn’t have anything to do with explaining why Mitt once drove to Canada with the family dog strapped on the roof or why he helped create a mandatory health-care plan for Massachusetts that looks very much like the Obama plan he now vows to repeal.
Rather, it’s meant to be a dig at President Obama and other Democrats who, he asserts with very little evidence, don’t believe in free markets, free enterprise and free trade — or freedom of any kind for that matter. It’s a sneaky way of accusing people who don’t agree with him of having so little faith in America that they’re constantly apologizing for it, from which we are meant to conclude that they don’t love America as much as Mitt and the Republicans. This is the Bad Mitt talking.
(More here.)
WashPost
Tuesday, June 7, 6:32 PM
The Good Mitt could be the next president of the United States. The Bad Mitt won’t make it past Super Tuesday. The problem for governor Romney is that he just can’t decide which Mitt he wants to be.
I found both Mitts while reading his obligatory pre-campaign book, “No Apology,” with the lapel-pin subtitle, “Believe in America.”
Despite what you might think from the title, the book doesn’t have anything to do with explaining why Mitt once drove to Canada with the family dog strapped on the roof or why he helped create a mandatory health-care plan for Massachusetts that looks very much like the Obama plan he now vows to repeal.
Rather, it’s meant to be a dig at President Obama and other Democrats who, he asserts with very little evidence, don’t believe in free markets, free enterprise and free trade — or freedom of any kind for that matter. It’s a sneaky way of accusing people who don’t agree with him of having so little faith in America that they’re constantly apologizing for it, from which we are meant to conclude that they don’t love America as much as Mitt and the Republicans. This is the Bad Mitt talking.
(More here.)
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