Great column by Ernest Dumas again this week, loaded with details on big issues on which Mitt Romney has done about-faces — clean air, gay rights, abortion, health care and more.
The irony is that Romney benefits from the unelectability of the extremists he now parrots. The good news is that there’s no reason to fear Romney — he could just as easily flop back the other direction as president.
There are, in fact, certain advantages to having weak character. Old-line Republicans, who are still the majority in the party, and independents may not admire Romney—few could—but they don’t fear him. As president they know he would govern by accommodation as he always did. No one believes that he would stick to any of the stands he has taken the past year.
The full column follows