Yet another article documenting yet another flip from Romney, this time on immigration.
It occurs to me that Romney’s history of flip-flops, in a way, documents the insanification (that word is copyright me, by the way, and is patent pending. Might not be as good as truthiness, but it gets the point across) of the Republican Party. Romney is a man of pure ambition, and in 2006, when he uttered relatively sane things about immigration, he was already aiming at the White House. He hasn’t changed a bit. It’s the Republican party that has become so crazy that a coldly calculating Republican of 2006 could not predict that his party would become so unbelievably demented that a mainstream conservative position would disqualify him from becoming a presidential nominee within six years. As he does now, back then he was saying what he felt would get him Republican support. Now, in case after case he’s been forced to flip from sometimes sane but bad policy prescriptions to out and out insane positions. It’s not that he necessarily likes flip-flopping, it’s just that, having no core beliefs, he finds it so easy, and if that’s what it takes to win, that’s what he’s going to do. Of course, he also had the misfortune of having run for office in Massachusetts, where he also had no compunction about saying whatever was necessary to get what he wanted.
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