Posted by
The Old Whig on Wednesday, June 06, 2007 3:07:58 AM
I read Hugh Hewitt’s blog critical of John McCain. Some of the comments posted there left me chagrined.
The media early on attempted to spin Mitt Romney as a flip-flopper,
and some conservatives bought it. But it didn’t stick. Why? Because
Romney effectively answered the charge and is a believable guy.
Apparently he has had some traction with voters because his poll
numbers have been steadily rising.
Anyone heard the MSM using the flip-flopper
label on Romney lately? Not much anymore. But leave it to some
conservatives who have not studied Romney’s record or positions to
continue to carry that sad mantra as proxies for the MSM.
Liberal Patriot (an oxymoron) attempts to paint Romney as a
hypocrite (and a very poor attempt at that) because he advertises in
spanish while supporting English as the official language. This is a
“non-sequitur,” and a bad one too.
Informed people understand that passing an
English-as-offical-language bill would only mean that the government
would be prohibited from printing its forms in anything but English. It
would not prohibit you or I or even presidential candidates from
advertising in Spanish.
So is Romney really a flop-flopper or a hypocrite? No, but I suspect
that the facts don’t matter to many of Romney’s critics. Facts
certainly haven’t swayed them thus far.