The log in Romney's eye

Marc Nadeau

Visibly, Mitt Romney is desperate.  Lacking popular support at the base, he has poured many millions of dollars of his personal fortune to campaign for the highest office in the United States.  But he now realizes that money can't buy everything.

Last week, he accused John McCain of using dirty tricks against him regarding his position about Iraq.  On GOPUSA Forum, Thomas Sowell - who must also be desperate about the political fortune of the one-term liberal Governor of Massachusetts went as far as comparing John McCain to... Benedict Arnold!  Don't change your glasses, you read well.

What would be Romney's team reaction if a McCain supporter or sympathizer was to say that, at least, the Maverick has never been brainwashed either about Vietnam or about Iraq?  They would hit the roof.  It is thus surprising that they try to take speck out their neighbor's eye when they have a log in their own.

When Senator McCain said that Romney once supported a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq, he was right.  The one-term liberal Governor of Massachusetts did.  You notably can attest for yourself here.  Right Smart, a fellow blogger, thus remarked that this may have been the reason why anti-war protesters did not protest in front of Romney's HQ in Iowa way back in December.

That's not all.  Romney, the new-born proud knight of Conservatism, is now trying to convince the GOP rank and file that he is the real conservative in the pack.  Let's see the facts, for some clarity.

Like his positions on other issues - notably abortion - Romney flip-flopped about his true conservative allegiance.  When he ran for the Senate in 1994, liberal Romney was afraid that being defined as a conservative and disciple of the Gipper might hurt him.   In a word "he had little use of the policies of the Reagan Revolution".  In 2008, he says that no, no, he ran "as Republican and as a conservative."

Furthermore, the same post reveals - or simply evokes something most of you already know or should know - that 1) he had considered entering the race as an independent, 2) he only became  a member of the Party late in 1993 (a couple of decades after John McCain...), 3) he had voted for Democrat Paul Tsongas in the 1992 Democratic primaries and 4) he was openly bashing Jesse Helms - one of the architects of Ronald Reagan's ascension to the Presidency.

Now, wait a minute.  This is the man who tries to teach John McCain a thing or two about conservatism and Party loyalty?

While many of the readers of this blog are heading in front of their televisions or to attend Super Bowl Parties tomorrow, they should ask themselves who's got the best team spirit between McCain and Romney?  The loyal soldier who played in the team against all odds or the disproportionate ego who flip-flopped his way in political life?