re: #118 HappyWarrior

Exactly. I think deep down he knows it’s a load of shit but he wants this job so bad that he panders to whatever he thinks is popular. I really think that if there were a strong social democratic tradition in this country that Mitt would have pandered to that at one point in his career because he thinks the answer is telling people what they want to hear and then when that position becomes unpopular turning on it and acting like it never happened.

Yes, not only has Mitt been running non-stop for 5 years, but since we’re talking psychoanalysis there just might be some unresolved daddy issues that compel him to run. His father was a competent GOP prez candidate in 1968; he later became a punch line because of his unfortunate comments on Vietnam. (He said, “I was brainwashed” when trying to explain his earlier positions on Nam, which he had changed.)