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Don’t Let Romney Shake the Etch-a-sketch Next Tuesday

Posted on November 2, 2012 by robw77

When I was a child, the etch-a-sketch was one of my favorite toys. Framed in red, it had an impressive screen where one could draw all sorts of fanciful things with the two left and right knobs at the bottom … Continue reading →

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Romney’s Lost Moment

Posted on August 8, 2012 by robw77

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY9TW6KwQCw&feature=player_embedded

Christie Whitman, Republican and former governor, points out a pivotal moment that could have been a game changer for Mitt Romney. It was the moment when Steve Snyder-Hill, a gay soldier, asked the dais of Republican candidates about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. And the audience booed him. Steve became a symbol for something beyond the question he was asking. He became a soldier under attack from an audience that should have respected him.
According to Whitman… this was the moment that Romney could have stepped up and showed the country that he was the man for all the people of this country who love this country. That he recognized that to serve was to do something beyond political opinions.
Unfortunately, Romney is not such a man, and he has no such vision. He has four deferments and an instinct to duck.
That was the wrong time to duck.

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