Our buddy Patrick Hynes weighed
in today against Jim Antle and his piece
on Mitt Romney by casting doubt on Romney's conservative bona fides
-- just the sort of thing one might expect from someone now working
for John McCain and evidently worried that Romney is outflanking
McCain on the right.
To answer a few of Patrick's specific complaints: I would bet
McCain is effectively more pro-choice than Romney these days, and
that McCain's suppression of the First Amendment via
McCain-Feingold incumbent protection dwarfs any of the coerciveness
in Romney's health-care reform. As for who Romney is surrounding
himself with -- the puny-minded article Patrick links to tells us
nothing on that score -- I think a bigger worry should be McCain,
whose current brain trust includes such conservative stalwarts as
Colin Powell, Richard Armitage and Gerry Parsky.
But you know Patrick's really ready to throw mud for his man
when he for all intents blames Romney for the recent Big Dig
tragedy. I was wondering who'd be the first to take that route.
(For a much more thoughtful and informed response to Patrick
Hynes, see Jim Antle's post here.)
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