Top Romney Adviser Says Romney Can Change His Positions After The Primaries: ‘Like An Etch A Sketch'

I think they have been using the 'Etch A Sketch' strategy on a daily basis.

but in the case of Mitt der Shitt, it's obviously a much simpler procedure.

kannst du Deutsch?

There are instances where certain phrases sound funnier to me in ersatz usage of different languages, however.

Electing someone who ends up being moderate and not extreme enough for them? I hope this gets around because it will sink Mitt and Santorum will be the nominee. Not that I want Santorum to be president; I just think he will be easier to beat than Mitt.

Willard's stupid remarks will live forever on the intertubes.

In the Etch-A-Sketch days you erased. But now you go viral.

Although their super pacs will try their best.

Have you ever heard of keeping things in the "thought bubble?"

Not only have you given the dems a nice attack ad but you have also
given the right wing base a reason to stay home in the fall. Good Job!

...from something I said on the Mrs. Santorum thread yesterday:

So Mr. Fehrnstrom, are you saying that Rmoney is lying and pandering like a typical politician now, or that he'll be lying and pandering like a typical politician if/when he's running in the general election?

He actually doesn't have any positions, merely temporary stances. He also has no morals, feelings, thoughts, empathy......

come back to the middle or appears to be too reasonable.

I have had it with the corporatist-political world viewing US citizens as mindless
dolts who are nothing but objects with which to be toyed. This "etch-a-sketch" comment spotlights the horrifying mindset that was showcased during HBO's recent "Game Change" movie about Palin.

Steve Schmitt said, in "Game Change, "News isn't meant to be remembered anymore! It's entertainment. Nothing is remembered for more than forty eight hours any more..." Gee, thanks for treating us like imbeciles.

The political machine on both sides believes that the American people are stupid, ignorant, incapable of rational thought and easily persuaded with a snappy marketing campaign. Yep, throw us some "red meat" and come up with a catchy slogan--and we're sooooo on board!

I don't agree with ANYTHING Mitt Romney has to say, and I agree less with the rabid right-wing of the Republican party that is being duped here. So, Romney kow tows, lies and puts on his best fake face for the extremists in his party--then his people admit that words and promises mean nothing. When will people realize that the political world views us as idiotic fools.

Dare I say--Obama has done the same thing. No one expected a non-reform healthcare bill. No one expected the further erosion of our Constitution. No one expected that Obama would sign on to indefinite detention of United States citizens. No one expected that he would morph his staff and cabinet into a Goldman Sachs fraternity. No one expected that Guantanamo would still remain open. Yes, Obama has done some great things--and I am relieved to know that a Republican is not in the White House. But still---it appears that both sides engages in this kind of "etch-sketch" campaign politicking, and it's so wrong.

Another example of how we are seduced and then used (for our votes)--and then cast aside like one night stands--while our elected representatives continue their long-time love affair with their corporate masters.

We have a sick, sick system.

...just keeps on coming!

An Etch A Sketch




Someone has to do a graphic with Romney as an Etch A Sketch

It's an outrageous statement but we all knew it was coming. Of course Romney will reverse course on everything he's ever said in his campaign and pretend he never said it.

They're used to this. In fact, they expect it. In fact, they would probably be upset if this didn't happen because they'd be afraid that Romney wasn't an authoritarian leader.

Authoritarians live in a virtual reality, a "bubble" of sorts where actual, evidence-based reality is forbidden and the party line of the moment is the only "truth". Think "we have always been at war with Oceania" in 1984.

If the Romney campaign was incapable of changing its tune on the fly, this would horrify authoritarian followers. They might actually have to approach evidence, face reality and actually think.

I know being flexible is important in politics, but so is consistency.
You want the people who voted for you in the primary to vote for you in the general, right? IF YOU CHANGE TOO MANY OF YOUR POSITIONS, THEY MAY NOT VOTE FOR YOU- isn't that how elections work, right?

I wonder how much contortion an Etch-A-Sketch can do?

http://www.ohioart.com/lets_sketch.jsp

This could go viral like the Rmoney pic.

he'll only prove what everyone on the thugs side who is pissed at his buying this election have been saying all along.

Best thing about this is it was gift from a RWer. This is the first time I have ever seen a campaign admit that, this is their strategy. Not, the first time I have seen the strategy, but I digress. I hope the meme catches on with the RWers. Probably won't they aren't real quick on the uptake.

Or now maybe he doesn't?

idiot gaffes, flubs and stumbles. He has a communication director who is just like him.

Your candidate's been doing that for years.

First, it's absolutely true. Second, he can say it without fear that it will come back to haunt the general election campaign. Third, the popular media will tacitly agree that they will not remember stuff from the primary campaign and they will certainly not be so gauche as to bring it up to Romney should he secure the nomination.

And if any of you lot are such Captain Buzzkills that you bring this to CNN's attention come August or September, be assured that you will be ignored (if you're lucky) or subjected to withering ridicule.

Shake it really, really hard!!!

you always will be lying scum! You can't erase or change that! Its who you are at your core!

Vote for Romney!

is perpetuating and expanding the corporate oligarchy. And he'll say whatever anyone wants to hear at any time to that end.

I've heard him saying what a wonderfully business friendly place China is. And as we've just seen Bain Capital is selling video surveillance equipment to the Chinese government to help them maintain their police state control. Birds of a feather.

pictures are saved - forever .

Its a real balancing act for the candidate to appear to say the "right" things, but still leave a passage back to the center when he's the nominee. Just exchange center > right and you have the Obama blueprint. A few teabaggers will boycott the vote if Mittens wins the primaries, but the GOP would be banking on the many more moderate conservatives coming back to the fold to take up the slack. Just like progressive Democrats, a lot of die-in-the-wool Republicans will be thinking "who else?"

He just gave them the gift that keeps on giving.

RW America look like a bunch of idiots.

Doesn't make any of us look good. Like we have the attention span of a fruit fly.

I'm hoping for a video montage of all this with the song "Will The Real Mitt Romney- Please Stand Up" by Eminem playing over it.

As long as you're a Republican that has god on your side.

This spectacular etch-a-sketch comment, in my view, is the end of Mittens and the beginning of the serious draft Jeb Repuklican movement. Ironically on the very day Jeb endorsed Mitt. Seems fixed? Is the BFEE becoming a little too obvious?

see the WaPo's Alexandra Petri.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/post/mitt-romney-and-the-etch-a-sketch/2012/03/21/gIQAYZ0USS_blog.html

Petri goes to great lengths to get the other side's point of view. Here, for example, is Satan's take on Rick Santorum:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/post/satan-speaks-out-on-rick-santorum/2012/02/22/gIQA5VkPVR_blog.html

Gaffitis must be contagious in the Romney campaign.

NT!