Deseret News running interference for Romney...?

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Deseret News running interference for Romney...?

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Today, it is easy to find people complimenting the remarkable career of George Romney, a true public servant, even as some do it to dimish his son.

In that there's the rub: It's hard not to conclude that the press' relentless framing of a bumbling George Romney weeded out the wrong guy in 1968, because the man who beat Romney in the primary was Richard Nixon.


This seems a thinly veiled apologetic aimed at blaming the press for Mitt's gaffe prone image...

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8655 ... .html?pg=3

Now, I am not saying either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney is another Nixon, but in this strange, frustrating election system we have now, we just don't know much about our candidates' true characters despite the relentless coverage, and it's more than possible that a few decades from now we'll look back and say we elected the wrong guy.


Information about Lane Williams - the writer of the above piece.
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Re: Deseret News running interference for Romney...?

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yes, just as we now see Romney would have been better than Nixon, one day decades from now they'll realize they should have nominated Santorum.
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Re: Deseret News running interference for Romney...?

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palerobber wrote:... one day decades from now they'll realize they should have nominated Santorum.


Or that "none of the above" was the correct answer.
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