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brooklynite

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Wed Dec 14, 2011, 01:26 PM Dec 2011

The GOP race in a nutshell...

The robotic consistency of Romney’s newfound conservatism does contrast sharply with Gingrich, who lurches between hysterical right-wing paranoia and bouts of bipartisanship. And yet the erratic character of Gingrich’s swings suggests that they’re unplanned, and thus that they spring from actual conviction, albeit momentary convictions. Gingrich actually believes what he is advocating at the moment he is advocating it. Nobody can plausibly say the same of Romney.

Romney is the handsome swindler who plots to win your mother's heart and make off with her fortune. Gingrich is like the husband who periodically gets drunk and runs off to spend a week with a stripper in a low-rent motel but always comes home in the end. Which one would you rather see your mother marry?

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/12/romneys-eerie-post-flip-flop-consistency.html
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The GOP race in a nutshell... (Original Post) brooklynite Dec 2011 OP
If you change the word "momentary" to monitary I think it would be more truthy OffWithTheirHeads Dec 2011 #1
I don't think Romney is all that handsome. Liberal_in_LA Dec 2011 #2
Reminds me of the Ken doll from my sister's childhood. ChairmanAgnostic Dec 2011 #3
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