The Bob Taft vs. Objectively Unfit Mitt Romney ‘Face-off’
If the polls are to be believed, it would appear that the logical approach opponents of Mitt Romney’s presidential candidacy are using to explain his record of constitution-breaking, flip-flip-flopping, and betrayal, while providing copious details to prove the points, isn’t working.
Maybe that’s because that approach is so, well, left-brained.
Maybe it’s time for a new, more (ahem) right-brained approach.
So here goes.
(Links are absent, because they’re so, y’know, left-brained.)
This is Mitt Romney:
This is Ohio’s previous governor, Bob Taft:
Got it? Okay.
Now let’s compare 
to 
:
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mostly raised taxes and increased some fees, in combined amounts totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.
mostly raised fees and increased some taxes, in combined amounts totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.
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presided over an economy that generated few new jobs and failed to share in the country’s general 2003-2006 prosperity.
So did , in spite of his vaunted “business” experience.
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opposed Ohio’s same-sex marriage constitutional amendment in 2004. It passed anyway.
called his state’s attempt in (I believe) 2002 at a constitutional amendment too extreme (I believe it never got on the ballot in MA). His state has never passed such a constitutional amendment.
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, an alleged champion of free-market economics, imposed a state-run health care system on his commonwealth that will penalize people who don’t buy coverage either $912 or $1,824 for not having it.
didn’t impose any such system on his state.
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, while claiming a prolife “epiphany,” imposed taxpayer-subsidized abortions with a $50 co-pay on his state.
, who was prolife for decades, didn’t.
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violated his state’s constitution and his oath of office by unilaterally imposing same-sex marriage on his commonwealth.
, for all his myriad faults, did no such thing.
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Despite all of this and so many other items I could list (a lot of right-brainers can’t focus for too long, so I’m stopping here), is considered by many to have been a good governor, and is now a leading presidential contender.
Meanwhile, is considered one of the worst governors, if not the worst, in his state’s history.
But in reality, governed worse than .
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But does have better hair. The hair, plus 
, remain the only conceivable reasons why is so popular among conservatives who almost universally despise .
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So when you see or hear about Objectively Unfit Mitt Romney, this is the image you should hang onto in your head:
Choosing a GOP nominee for president becomes a much easier exercise.
And you left-brainers are free to criticize yours truly for how weakly I combined the last picture. Alternative pictorial contributions are welcome.
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UPDATE: The artist, formally known as Matt at Weapons of Mass Discussion, is responsible for the late-night, uh, improvement to the composite picture.
So… what you are saying is that you are NOT going to post the below graphic here?
Comment by The Squeaky Wheel — January 24, 2008 @ 5:37 pm
(Graphic did not come through… I mean the FredHead banners found here
11:45 p.m. BIZZYBLOG NOTE: Sorry, no free pub for Objectively Unfit candidates. He’s welcome to buy, and can afford to buy, a banner ad. :–>
Comment by The Squeaky Wheel — January 24, 2008 @ 5:37 pm
With republicans like Taft & Romney who needs, well republicans.
Good comparison.
Comment by Gordon — January 24, 2008 @ 6:08 pm
Tom;
I enjoyed the post. The scary thing for Ohio is that while Romney did the above under a socialistic state, Taft did it with a Republican controlled General Assembly.
Comment by Brian — January 25, 2008 @ 1:12 pm
#4, I will, unfortunately for Ohio, give you that.
I’ll also respond that a lot of what Romney did to compromise conservative principles consisted of totally unforced errors, and went way beyond MA Dems’ wildest dreams. He has told certain groups before he was elected that as a Republican governor he could do things and get away with them that a Dem never could.
Comment by TBlumer — January 25, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
Not to forget these concerns also:
Mitt’s reputation on building American jobs and business may be another bogus statement by Mitt. Mitt’s vow to keep American jobs, may need to be another statement where Mitts wording needs to be closely examined.
I mean … like the same close examination of Mitt’s wording which needed to be done when Mitt attempted to deceive South Carolina voters that he was a Washington outsider not owing any lobbyist, by stating that he did “not†lobbyist “running†his campaign, to which a shocked journalist questioned Mitt about the “lobbyist’ who had been with Mitt on his many campaign stops, whom the traveling journalist assigned to the Mitter, had been viewing day in and day out with Romney. Mitt in all his ‘holier than thou’ response said listen to my words, I said no lobbyist was ‘running’ my campaign’– oops however there are lobbyist ‘tied’ to Mitts campaign — o.k. America, Mitt likes word games— lobbyist are traveling with him, sitting next to him, chatting with him, but not ‘running’ his campaign.
Mitt told Michigan voters he would fight for Michigan jobs—every ‘one’ of them…. Guess that means if ‘one’ job is left in Michigan; Mitt would have kept his promise to the Michigan voters!
Mitt made what has been termed as ‘jaw dropping’ profits on company buy outs in American, which were leveraged. Mitt made what are described as ‘huge fees’ before companies were bankrupt, Mitt, through his company Bain Capital, also closed American factories which resulted in the lost of American jobs, and the Mitter made huge amounts of money on debt hedge funds.
Not to mention, complex web of hidden accounts in off shore tax havens which are beginning to come to light, some leading to only a P.O. Box in tax haven islands.
Mitts China investments had Duncan Hunter concerned over Mitt Romney, as well as other political figures. Yes, all are fine examples of Romney’s dedication to buying a stronger America.
Comment by sweet, kind and caring — January 26, 2008 @ 6:37 am
#6, thank you. As noted in the post, examples were cut off to accommodate short attention span right-brainers.
One wonders where the Buchanan brigade is on what Hunter brought up.
Comment by TBlumer — January 26, 2008 @ 7:26 am