YOU KNOW, HIS PARENTS DIDN'T GIVE HIM THE NAME "FLIP FLOP MITT"... HE EARNED THAT HIMSELF, ONE FLIP FLOP AT A TIME

if the shoe fits...

There's a reason no discerning person believes a word that comes out of Mitt Romney's mouth, no matter how right-wing talk show hosts cream over his masculine chin. But, to be realistic, how can you expect someone who claims to be a devout believer in the Book of Mormon to understand the difference between fairytales and the kind of truth we learned in the Boy Scouts. Whatever else he is, Romney isn't trustworthy.

Tonight Rick Klein and Jake Tapper exposed the varmit hunter as another Repug who is, for lack of a better expression, full of poo.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has long cited a November 2004 meeting with a Harvard stem cell researcher as the moment that changed his long-held stance of supporting abortion rights to his current "pro-life" position opposing legal abortion.

But several actions Romney took mere months after that meeting call into question how deep-seated his conversion truly was.

Within two months of his epiphany on this issue, Romney appointed to a judgeship a Democrat who was an avowed supporter of abortion rights. In May 2005, Romney also declared his support for a House bill lifting President Bush's ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research-- a bill he now said he opposes.

How can anyone know if they agree with him or not? He doesn't even know if he does himself! As for stem cell research, he's also been all over the map, supporting, opposing, signing, promising to not sign... the man is so twisted and unsure of what he believes that you have no choice but to feel certain that he believes in nothing at all-- other than a thirst to attain power.

Romney has faced other questions about his judicial appointments. A July 2005 Boston Globe analysis found that Romney nominated registered Republicans for only one-fourth of the 36 judicial vacancies he filled during his first 2 1/2 years as governor. The personal abortion views of most of those nominees are not known, since most had no previous judicial writings and were private citizens before becoming judges.

The Globe found that Romney's nominees included two longtime gay rights advocates; one was a former board member of the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association. Romney had no opportunities to make appointments to the state's supreme court -- the panel that made Massachusetts the only state in the nation to recognize gay marriages -- during his four years as governor.

When not flippin' and floppin', Romney has been spending most of his time-- like all the nutcases running for the GOP presidential nomination-- making believe he's the next Ronald Reagan. That and fighting off attacks by John McCain (and anyone else standing in the way of the Mormon takeover of the White House), who has been busy exposing him as not a real conservative and not a straight talker.



UPDATE: MR. FAUX DOESN'T THINK MUCH OF FLIP FLOP MITT EITHER

Tomorrow's NY Times paints a picture of Romney as the ultimate empty suit and meaningless phony. "His polished 'presidential bearing' has been marveled upon, a package of great hair, sleek suits and dreamy smiles well matched to podiums and magazine covers... He is loath to get off point or behind schedule. There is a definite 'master of the universe' flavor to his campaign." His McCampaign is so plastic and staged that no one seems able to relate to him. Meanwhile Joe Gandelman of the Moderate Voice makes the point that "Romney, who as a presidential candidate has already drawn criticism for changes in his positions on other social issues, is now facing questions on whether he has shifted his stand on expanded federal support for embryonic stem cell research... Romney seems to be flip flopping like a water-starved halibut reeled in on a fishing trip."