Jeff Goldstein adds his unique voice to those of us who refuse to be rounded up into the Romney camp:
"I’m curious why you’d expect me to reward a candidate who, in every
election cycle, uses his money and his surrogates and sycophants to
level insidious attacks against his opponents — not on the substance of
their ideas, but rather in an attempt to smear them personally and,
frankly, to ruin them. (The tell came last evening when Romney
suggested to Wolf Blitzer that, in fact, Gingrich had indeed used a
certain phrase, making his attack valid even if the phrase was taken completely out of context, and he knew it to be out of context.)
Watching the “pragmatic” center-right electability-jackals go after
Newt Gingrich the last couple days — in a concentrated, concerted, and
organized way — suggests to me that the establishment sector of “our”
movement has adopted the worst tactics of the left, which it will use,
amazingly, only against those to their right.
That is, these “pragmatists” are willing to smear and demonize
conservatives (while pretending to define contemporary conservatism, in
that way moving it leftward), and yet they make it their mission to woo
the moderates and independents with pleasing panders and populist
pablum.
And for this they deserve my vote?
Sorry, but that’s how Obama made his political bones. And I’ll be
damned if I’m going to support that kind of behavior just because those
reveling in it wear flag lapel pins and check R on their voter
registration forms.
In fact, I hope they fail."
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