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February 23, 2012

Romney's Plastic & Dishonest Campaign

George Neumayr, The American Spectator


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Mitt Romney's campaign is essentially plastic and dishonest, aninsuperable problem Wednesday's debate in Mesa, Arizona,underscored yet again for disenchanted primary voters. Romneybested a rattled Rick Santorum in it, but this victory, like hisothers, looked hollow and dispiriting.

One suspects that Romney's low surrogates paid punks toenter the debate hall and loudly boo his opponents. Not thatSantorum didn't deserve a few. He blew it, exposing himself torepeated strikes from a Ron Paul-Mitt Romney pincer movement.Seated to Santorum's right and left, Paul and Romney took turnsneedling him. If, as the saying goes, a candidate "who isexplaining is losing," then Santorum lost very badly. He keptgetting entangled in the weeds of boring disputes from the past inwhich he had betrayed...

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