Democracy as Caricature
“I’m not familiar, precisely, with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was.” Mitt Romney Another articulate politician from the Republican Party explains his position on the issues. It happened at the end of last week in Jacksonville, Florida . Governor Romney had just finished repudiating a reported plan by Republican strategists and billionaire founder of TD Ameritrade Joe Ricketts, to run a $10-million super-pac advertising campaign linking President Obama once again to the outspoken Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright. In appearing to sneak up to the imaginary line separating substantive political discussion from a phenomenon known as “News Abuse,” Romney nevertheless stood by a statement made earlier in the year on a right-wing radio talk show asserting that Mr. Obama wanted to make America “a less Christian nation.” Governor Romney had just finished condemning the President for running a campaign based on personal attacks and the equivocation is hard