Romney’s stock in trade: Scrubbing one’s brain clean of previous positions
A scrubbing on foreign policy
By Dana Milbank, WashPost, Published: October 8
In 1967, a TV interviewer asked George Romney to explain why he supported the Vietnam War after a trip to that country in 1965 but opposed it two years later when he was running for president.
“You know, when I came back from Vietnam, I just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody could get,” Romney said.
“By the generals?” asked Lou Gordon, from Detroit’s WKBD-TV.
“Not only by the generals but also by the diplomatic corps over there,” the candidate said. “They do a very thorough job.”
Susceptibility to brainwashing is apparently an inherited trait. If brainwashing accounts for a change in position, George’s son Mitt has had his gray matter cleansed more often than most people shampoo their hair.
The “brainwashing” interview ended the elder Romney’s career. But brainwashing doesn’t carry the stigma it did 45 years ago. Scrubbing one’s brain clean of previous positions has been Mitt Romney’s stock in trade. In fact, his foreign-policy speech Monday to the Virginia Military Institute was one long gargle-and-rinse of the candidate’s previous positions.
(More here.)
In 1967, a TV interviewer asked George Romney to explain why he supported the Vietnam War after a trip to that country in 1965 but opposed it two years later when he was running for president.
“You know, when I came back from Vietnam, I just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody could get,” Romney said.
“By the generals?” asked Lou Gordon, from Detroit’s WKBD-TV.
“Not only by the generals but also by the diplomatic corps over there,” the candidate said. “They do a very thorough job.”
Susceptibility to brainwashing is apparently an inherited trait. If brainwashing accounts for a change in position, George’s son Mitt has had his gray matter cleansed more often than most people shampoo their hair.
The “brainwashing” interview ended the elder Romney’s career. But brainwashing doesn’t carry the stigma it did 45 years ago. Scrubbing one’s brain clean of previous positions has been Mitt Romney’s stock in trade. In fact, his foreign-policy speech Monday to the Virginia Military Institute was one long gargle-and-rinse of the candidate’s previous positions.
(More here.)
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