07-18-2012, 04:34 PM
The fun part about watching Romney gyrate is that he is trying to do what the last generation of Republicans did, and he can't quite get the hang of it. Karl Rove is manipulative and evil, but he knew enough to avoid being caught in obvious lies again and again. Romney is entangled in a bunch of excuses and half-truths that he has been using in the hope that a major scandal will go away, much as Richard Nixon tried (and often succeeded in) back before there was an internet and a 24 hour news cycle. Romney is stuck with his record at Bain and he is stuck with contradictory statements he made about his participation in Bain between 1999 and 2002. In the meanwhile, people are starting to ask about his tax returns, in the sense of "What is he hiding?" The longer he hides, the longer this is going to be front page stuff.
What's interesting about this from the standpoint of media criticism and history is that the major press organizations are not leading this inquiry, although the Boston Globe has a reporter who has done some good work on it.
What's interesting about this from the standpoint of media criticism and history is that the major press organizations are not leading this inquiry, although the Boston Globe has a reporter who has done some good work on it.