I'm Mitt Romney. I can count my supporters on one hand. (Brian Synder/Reuters)
Mitt Romney sure is trying his gosh darndest to prove to the frothing base of the Republican Party, aka the American Taliban, that he's always been a really super duper "
severe conservative," even though his actual record
suggests indisputably proves that isn't so.
He's even whored himself out to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, insisting that making contraception available is an attack on religious freedom—even though most Americans support it and Romney himself has supported (and opposed and then supported and then opposed) making contraception more easily available. While running to the right as fast as his weak knees will take him to embrace all the requisite stupidity and insanity of the party, it seems he's lost some independents along the way. Well, actually, lots of independents.
But at least he's managed to win the hearts and minds of the frothiest base of the party, right? Nope. As DemfromCT pointed out:
Pew joins other polls in noting that conservatives and tea party types don't want any part of Mitt Romney[.]
So after all the flip-flops—like denouncing Obamacare, which is pretty much just like Romneycare, except that Romneycare
covers taxpayer-funded abortions; and
supporting a constitutional Personhood Amendment, only to
deny supporting it the day after such an amendment was soundly defeated in Mississippi; and taking so many positions on
emergency contraception that who knows what the hell he thinks about that—it seems that Mitt Romney has managed to alienate both the conservative base
and the moderates.
Way to go, Mitt. You've pissed off all the wings of your own party, plus some in-the-middle folks, but at least we on the left appreciate all you've done in this primary season. In fact, we couldn't be happier.