Seeded No. 1 by acclamation, the GOP standard bearer is so outdoing himself in issue acrobatics that even a sympathetic judge, Rupert Murdoch, is raising questions about doping in his performance.
“Met Romney last week,” he tweets. “Tough O Chicago pros will be hard to beat unless he drops old friends from team and hires some real pros. Doubtful.”
Such concern, echoed in the Wall Street Journal, of course, is prompted by the health care tax/not-a-tax swan dive by Romney as he perfects his love Roberts/hate Roberts stance on the Chief Justice.
While voters prepare to start paying serious attention to 2012 election gymnastics, flip-flop records are being set by Romney’s whirling dervish moves to the point that pundits are wondering if the President, with his puny past record of reversals on the individual mandate, stands a chance of competing.
“A foolish consistency,” Emerson wrote, “is the hobgoblin of little minds.” By that measure, the former governor of Massachusetts is the Einstein of modern politics.
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