The Concord Monitor’s editorial page has taken the unusual move to anti-endorse (so to speak), Governor Romney: Romney should not be the next president.
The piece highlights Romney’s two big liabilities: his record of flip-floppery on key issues, and his plastic, phony feel. While I can’t imagine that this editorial will change many minds, I have to concur with its thesis in terms of Romney’s main problems. Certainly any Republican who thought that John Kerry had malleable views should have a hard time voting for Romney (remember the flip-flops at the Republican convention in 2004?).
The editorial is spot-on, it would seem, when it notes:
People can change, and intransigence is not necessarily a virtue. But Romney has yet to explain this particular set of turnarounds in a way that convinces voters they are based on anything other than his own ambition.
h/t: The Caucus.
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