{"id":2379,"date":"2012-03-21T20:47:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T00:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2012-03-21T20:47:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T00:47:28","slug":"mitt-rmoney-the-etch-a-sketch-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/21\/mitt-rmoney-the-etch-a-sketch-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt RMOney, the Etch-a-Sketch Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nMitt Romney has now responded to the Etch-a-Sketch story, in which his top aide said voters minds were like an Etch-a-Sketch: Mitt could reposition back to the center in time for the general election with little damage from the primaries. In other words, you just repaint the picture. No one remembers. Romney himself now says that wasn’t about him shifting his positions. It was about changing the campaign’s org chart as he moves toward the general. – Josh Marshall, quoted at Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday morning was supposed to be a high point for Mitt Romney, who secured one of the the most sought-after endorsements of the cycle in former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush after an easy win in Illinois. Instead, a coalition of Democratic and Republican political operatives used every possible tool at their disposal, from cutting-edge social media to old-school political theater, to spoil his day completely.<\/p>\n

The story began with a gaffe by Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom, who responded to a CNN reporter\u2019s question about whether his candidate had moved too far to the right in the primary by comparing the campaign to a certain children\u2019s toy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s almost like an Etch-A-Sketch,\u201d Fehrnstrom said. \u201cYou can kind of shake it up and restart all of over again.\u201d <\/p>\n

2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/03\/the-day-in-etch-a-sketch-how-the-political-machine-overran-romney.php\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think at this point it has become crystal clear that American politics now predicates all campaigns on the assumption that the majority of voters are ignorant boobs, with an attention span of about 60 seconds, who make all their decisions based on their most primal fears, their bigotry, hatred, contempt for women, and homophobia. How great the 21st century is turning out to be.<\/p>\n

We are the hollow men
\nWe are the stuffed men
\nLeaning together
\nHeadpiece filled with straw. Alas!
\nOur dried voices, when
\nWe whisper together
\nAre quiet and meaningless
\nAs wind in dry grass
\nOr rats’ feet over broken glass
\nIn our dry cellar
\n…
\nThis is the way the world ends
\nThis is the way the world ends
\nThis is the way the world ends
\nNot with a bang but a whimper.<\/p>\n

– T.S. Eliot<\/p>\n

T.S. Eliot\u2019s \u201cThe Hollow Men\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mitt Romney has now responded to the Etch-a-Sketch story, in which his top aide said voters minds were like an Etch-a-Sketch: Mitt could reposition back…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61,39,32,38,44,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions\/2380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}