This devastating
You Tube video captures many of the times that Mitt Romney took
positions as far left as, or even further left than, Ted Kennedy
and Barack Obama. It’s rather bracing to see it in person — but,
in truth, I sorta knew most of it. What I somehow had missed was
that Romney didn’t just support TARP — in a crisis, so did some
other mistaken conservatives — but, later, he also supported the
“stimulus” package. In fact, he said his regret was that the old
Congress hadn’t already passed a $700 billion package for GW Bush
to sign. I know of no other evem semi-conservative major figure who
supported that monstrosity. But in this video, from about the 3:29
mark to about the 4:10 mark, Romney did just that. He also showed
himself so far left on abortion and gun control that it went beyond
what I already had known about him on those subjects as well. It’s
really amazing, politically, that a supposedly conservative party
is, according to conventional wisdom’s projections, about to
nominate a presidential candidate whose recent past was so
profoundly unconservative.
