NOTE: I will be adding pre-2023 blog posts to the blog over the next six months. These are postings I made during the period 2007-2017. They’re drawn from a previous version of the They Will Say ANYTHING! blog. Each post will be preceded by this blue text block. Of course, I will continue to add new post-2023 postings as well.
October 27, 2011
New and irrefutable evidence proves Mitt Romney was separated from principles at birth, according to communication scientists and other unnamed sources. After a long period of examining his political positions these experts “could find no other rational explanation for why Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on matters of national importance at such an exceedingly high rate,” according to the Flip-Flop Research Consortium. In their report, released today, the consortium provided a summary chart of a small representative sample of Romney’s “serial flip-flops,” set out below:
| Mitt Romney 1 | Mitt Romney 2 |
| ‘I’m not in favor of privatizing Social Security or making cuts.’ | ‘Social Security’s the easiest and that’s because you can give people a personal account.’ |
| ‘I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.’ | ‘I did not see it with my own eyes.’ |
| “When I first heard of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ I thought it sounded very silly” | ”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has worked well.’ |
| On bin Laden – ‘It’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.’ | ‘He’s going to pay, and he will die.’ |
| ‘I supported the assault weapon ban.’ | ‘I don’t support any gun control legislation.’ |
| ‘I respect and will protect a woman’s right to choose.’ | ‘I never really called myself pro-choice.’ |
| ‘Based on the numbers of American Muslims… I cannot see that a cabinet position would be justified.’ [Ed., According to the Census this criterion would eliminate members of 25 U.S. religions.] | ‘A person should not be elected because of his faith nor should he be rejected because of his faith.’ [Ed., Presumably, this would include cabinet positions.] |
| ‘Roe v. Wade has gone too far.’ | ‘I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.’ |
| ‘I like mandates. The mandates work.’ | ‘I think it’s unconstitutional on the 10th Amendment front.’ |
| ‘The TARP program… was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures.’ | ‘When government is… bailing out banks… we have every good reason to be alarmed.’ |
| On the so-called “Romneycare” ‘If Massachusetts succeeds in implementing it, then that will be a model for the nation.’ | Again on “Romneycare” ‘What works in one state may not be the answer for another.’ |
| ‘I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.’ | ‘Ronald Reagan is my hero.’ |
| ‘I’ve been a hunter pretty much all my life.’ | ‘Any description of my being a hunter is an overstatement of capability.’ |
| In 2003, Romney launched the Massachusetts Green Energy Fund, saying the program offered “an opportunity to capitalize on two emerging trends: the growing level of investment interest in clean energy and the importance of Massachusetts’ academic and corporate R&D in forming clean energy technology companies,” | On President Obama’s green energy programs These programs “invite cronyism and outright corruption”and should be disbanded. |
| July 11, 2011[ President Obama] “didn’t create the recession, but he made it worse, and longer.” | July 30, 2011 Asked about his July 11th assertion “I didn’t say things are worse.” |
| 2009 “I think there is a need for economic stimulus. Americans have lost about $11 trillion in net worth. And government can help make that up in a very difficult time.” | September 2011 ‘I have never supported the President’s recovery act. No time, nowhere, no how have I ever supported the President’s stimulus.’ |
| In 2008 On “Romneycare,” he bragged that it “helped get health insurance premiums down and got all of our citizens insured. If we can do that nationally, we not only help Michigan and the auto industry, but the entire nation.” | 2011 “One thing I’d never do is impose a state’s plan on the entire nation, that makes no sense. I’ll repeal Obamacare.” |
| 2006 Romney was against “rounding up 11 million people and forcing them at gunpoint from our country.” | 2011 “I disagree fundamentally that the 12 million people who come here illegally should be allowed to stay here permanently. I think that is a form of amnesty and that it’s not appropriate.” |
The consortium spokesperson explained that “the rate and number of flip-flops exceeds any we have encountered before.” This may indicate “that Mr. Romney has no connective tissue between the two sides of his brain which, in the average person, leads to a general consistency in beliefs.” The researchers did not imply that Mr. Romney was a “serial liar,” but suggested that, without the vital connective tissue that exists in the normal human brain between the two halves of the brain, Mr. Romney may have no ability to even recognize that he’s taking contrary positions on most every issue he speaks about. The spokesperson concluded by observing, “it’s either that or he’s just plain stupid. In that case, there’s nothing that can be done at this late date to remedy that.”
Updates will appear here as this vital research continues.