Mitt Romney rewrites himself - Boston Phoenix

[Mass]

Mitt Romney makes John McCain look like an amateur when it comes to flip-flopping. Not only does he tries to reformulate himself, change his positions on issues, create a new packaging.

New and improved Romney
He's more fiscal, less social. And he's got millions. But will GOP voters give a Mitt?
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | February 12, 2010

...From the looks of it, the 2012 version of Romney will be somewhat different than the one that lost in 2008. In that campaign, Romney tacked hard to the right — where Romney and his strategists perceived an opening as the conservative alternative to front-runners John McCain and Rudy Giuliani.

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In fact, most observers agree that Romney is doing everything right to prepare for a 2012 run at the GOP nomination. And many think he's making a wise move away from the social issues, toward the "real" Romney — assuming, of course, that this is his last reinvention.

Read more: http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/96976-new-and-improved-romney/#ixzz1DfnCYpie

Unfortunately, last year (before Scott Brown's election in MA and the Tea Party explosion in November, Romney published a book where he had written his views on items like healthcare or the stimulus package, and they are not suitable for the new repackaged Romney. But dont worry. Tnis is why new editions are for, For the publication of his paperback edition, Romney is busy rewriting his book, making him more in line with his new packaging.

http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/talkingpolitics/archive/2011/02/09/new-in-the-phoenix-mitt-rewrites-himself.aspx

New In The Phoenix -- Mitt Rewrites Himself
Published Feb 09 2011, 04:22 PM by David S. Bernstein 0
In this week's issue of the Boston Phoenix -- in print tomorrow, online now -- I comb through the new paperback edition of Mitt Romney's "No Apology" and discover that he has rewritten two sections.

Those changes, along with the new, very Tea Party-pandering introduction, suggest that the 2010 elections have taught Romney that he can't get away with running a safe, centrist campaign.

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/115412-mitt-rewrites-himself">Mitt Rewrites Himself
A new Apology
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | February 11, 2011

When Mitt Romney's second book, No Apology, came out a year ago, it looked like he was moving away from the far-right demagoguery of his 2008 bid for the presidency, and toward a more moderate centrism for the 2012 election cycle. (See "New and Improved Romney," Talking Politics, February 10, 2010.)

But times change, and so does Mitt. A year later, with the Tea Party–fueled extremism of the 2010 midterms foretelling a rightward tilt to the GOP presidential primaries, Romney is tacking back — as evidenced by changes made to two sections of the text in the new paperback edition of No Apology.

The first rewrite excises a relatively even-handed assessment of the 2009 economic-stimulus package. In the original, Romney wrote that it "will accelerate the timing of the start of the recovery, but not as much as it could have." The paperback pronounces the stimulus "a failure," and blasts Obama's "economic missteps" with conservative red-meat language — for example: "This is the first time government has declared war on free enterprise."

The other major change comes in a chapter on health care. In the original hardcover, Romney tried to carefully distinguish between the Massachusetts law and the national version that was nearing passage as he wrote.

But the Massachusetts model has become Romney's bête noire among conservatives, who loathe the national reform they call "Obamacare." The rewritten paperback swings much harder, proclaiming that "Obamacare will not work and should be repealed," and "Obamacare is an unconstitutional federal incursion into the rights of states."

Here are a few of these rewritings.
(click on the link)

[Yavin4]

1. I Like The Nick Name That Ted Kennedy Gave Him During The Debates

Multiple Choice Romney

[politicasista]

2. And yet, an Obama supporter compares him to Kerry

as a flip-flopper. Not surprising that some "Democrats" would disrespect the Senator for working for progress. Go figure.

[Mass]

3. Again? Tell this person he is an idiot and move on.

[politicasista]

4. Would but might get banned

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=433&topic_id=608811

[Mass]

5. Not worth being worked up with this.

I am not even sure this is Kerry bashing, more like a rhetorical question.

[politicasista]

6. Ok. Makes sense n/t

:)