Can Obama successfully tar Mitt Romney as both a flip-flopper and a fire-breathing conservative? Yes

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http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/10/obamas-two-edged-attack-romney

Obama's Two-Edged Attack on Romney

—By Kevin Drum

| Fri Oct. 14, 2011 8:28 AM PDT.

Andrew Sullivan links to some anti-Mormon nutbaggery over at WorldNetDaily:

"While he attempts to portray Mormonism as just another Christian religion, Mitt Romney counts on his skills to shift our attention away from what he truly believes," says Tricia Erickson, author of "Can Mitt Romney Serve Two Masters? The Mormon Church Versus the Office of the Presidency of the United States of America." "If the American people knew what he truly believed, they would surely not place him in the highest office in the land."

Et cetera. I was listening to Chris Matthews the other day, and he was wondering if the Obama team could successfully tar Mitt Romney as both a flip-flopper and a fire-breathing conservative. I think they probably can. They'll never admit this (and I might be wrong about it), but the flip-flopper message seems most likely to be aimed at evangelicals who are leery of putting a Mormon in the White House and are looking for an excuse — any excuse — to stay home. The flip-flopping charge won't be enough to get them to vote for Obama, but it might be enough to get them to bag the whole thing and just skip the election entirely. Plus it has the virtue of being true.

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1. k&r

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2. He definitely is a flip-flopper, especially about his HC in Ma. and now

trashing the HC we have now. The are almost the same.