Words are funny things. Right now, the headline of the Washington Post reads "Romney: Hope is Not a Strategy in the Middle East" (from his "foreign policy" address at VMI today).
And yet in the midst of his discussion of the Palestinians in his infamous 47% tape, Romney had this to say:
And I look at the Palestinians not wanting to see peace anyway, for political purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel, and these thorny issues, and I say there's just no way. And so what you do is you say you move things along the best way you can. You hope for some degree of stability, but you recognize that it's going to remain an unsolved problem. I mean, we look at that in China and Taiwan. All right, we have a potentially volatile situation, but we sort of live with it. And we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve. We don't go to war to try and resolve it.
One senses that Mitt Romney's followers suffer from such a severe case of flip-flop whiplash, they are unable to perceive what a serial liar their candidate is.