Joe Klein of Time Magazine has written a devastating article about Romney's terrible, shameful and hollow campaign.
More below the fold.
Klein criticizes Romney for backing off his own Massachusetts health care plan, which includes an individual mandate to expand the pool of insured people so that insurers could provide coverage for all at reasonable rates and regardless of pre-existing conditions without going bankrupt. From this criticism, Klein reaches a decidedly unfavorable review of Romney as a candidate and even as a person.
Choice quote:
Romney has dumbed himself down to fit a Republican Party that has become anachronistic, hateful and foolish. He has never once stood up to the party's extremist base in this campaign--not even when asked whether he would accept a deficit deal with $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in new revenues, not even on immigration and contraception, issues that sent women and Latinos scurrying toward the exits. His has been a shameful, shameless campaign. The public will occasionally turn out an incumbent President, but only when offered a real alternative. Mitt Romney has offered them only a mirage.
The whole article is here:
http://www.time.com/...