Republican Strategic Forgettery

Never stops.

Over at "New York Magazine". Jonathan Chait notices how Willard Romney's entire campaign strategy has devolved into nothing more than completely rewriting his own immediate past, over and over again, in real-time.

Paul Ryan Helps Romney Reclaim His Political Virginity

By Jonathan Chait

...But were it not for Ryan, Romney’s effort to cast himself as the champion of high-minded and honest campaigning would be laughed out of court. Romney began his campaign by unleashing a hilariously dishonest ad showing Obama from 2008 quoting John McCain and portraying the quote as Obama’s own words, and when pressed defended the ad on the grounds that “that’s his voice.” Romney never stopped issuing a stream of utter fabrications, particularly employing his campaign’s favorite device of stitching together Obama quotations or pulling them out of context to create new meanings for them. (When Obama recently argued that reducing the deficit through a mix of spending cuts and tax hikes on the rich “worked” in the nineties, Romney turned it into an ad portraying Obama as having claimed the Obama economic program had worked — as in, he is unconcerned about economic suffering.) His campaign has accused Obama of launching a “war on religion” and deployed a surrogate to discuss his youthful drug use and call him un-American.

How can Romney, whose campaign spent months relentlessly smearing Republican and Democratic foe alike and spitting derision at the naïveté of anybody who objected, reclaim his political virginity? By bathing in Ryan’s soft glow.

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Regular readers of this blog know that massive, ongoing Conservative historical revisionism is not is not a bug in our political process.

It is Conservatism's main feature, reclaimed-virginity metaphor and all... ("Like a Virgin" from 09/11/09.)