HuffPost : Robert Creamer : "Voters want to know that the candidates they support are the leaders they will get after the election -- not, as John Huntsman said of Romney, "a well-oiled weathervane"." - Character and Core Values will decide the Presidency

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"Romney has never seen a position he couldn't change if he determined it would be to his advantage to do so. He thinks of politics as a business marketing project, where you say what you think you need to in order to maximize sales. Romney doesn't think of voters as citizens to be engaged -- he thinks of them as customers to be manipulated".

Huffington Post :
Why Character and Core Values Could Prove Decisive in Battle for Presidency
January 29, 2012

By Robert Creamer
Robert Creamer is a long-time political organizer and strategist, and author of the book: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win. He is a partner in Democracy Partners and a Senior Strategist for Americans United for Change


Why Character and Core Values Could Prove Decisive in Battle for Presidency


Some excerpts :

As Massachusetts Governor, Romney was pro-choice -- now he is anti-choice.

Romney was the author of the Massachusetts health care plan that in many respects served as the model for Obama's own health care plan. Now he wants to repeal "Obamacare."

Romney once refused to sign the "no new tax pledge." Now he has signed the "no new tax pledge."

Romney favored extension of the assault weapons ban. Now he opposes extension of the assault weapon ban.

Once he said the TARP "was the right thing to do." Now he says he opposed it.

Right after the economy collapsed he said he favored an economic stimulus program; now he says he opposed the stimulus bill.

Once Romney said he believed that human activity contributed to global warming; now he says he doesn't think we know what causes global warming.

One day he was emphatically neutral on Ohio Governor Kasich's union-busting legislation -- that was ultimately "vetoed" by the Ohio voters. The next day he one hundred percent supported that legislation.

Romney is a guy who, when called on his flip-flops and inconsistencies, said: "I'm running for office, for Pete's sake."

The reason Romney is having such a difficult time making the sale in the Republican primary contest is that many Republicans don't think he has strong core beliefs, don't trust him and think he's a phony.

Wait until he has to convince swing voters that he's anything more than a "vulture capitalist" who will say anything and do anything to make the biggest deal of his life -- the "acquisition" of the government of the United States of America.

But, you say, maybe he will flip-flop back into a more "moderate" Mitt Romney if he becomes President. Don't bet on it. People who have no core values will sell their services to the highest bidder. Romney's Presidency has already been sold lock, stock and barrel to the big Wall Street banks, the CEO class, the multi-millionaires who are behind his super PAC and the Republican Establishment that have financed his campaign.

In fact, throughout his career, Mitt Romney has demonstrated that his only "core value" is his own financial and political success. In Romney's view, both in politics and in business, every other belief or commitment can be thrown overboard if it weighs him down in his quest for success. And that goes for the people and communities that were impacted by the "creative destruction" of his corporate takeovers and leveraged buyouts at Bain Capital. To him, they were apparently nothing more than "collateral damage."

In the end, it is likely that the ultimate irony of the Romney campaign will be that his own willingness to toss aside positions and values that might at one time or another have appeared inconvenient, will ultimately weigh him down more than anything else.

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