And a scathing assessment of Mitt Romney
Kinsley, with an accurate explanation of why the press loves Haley Barbour and a scathing assessment of Mitt Romney:
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a master spin artist, plays on this social insecurity among journalists. Barbour doesn’t literally wink as he spins, but he manages to send the message: This is all a big game — a big wonderful game — and you have the privilege of playing it with me. The other approach, safer, is to remain totally deadpan. Never let the mask drop. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, possibly a primary opponent for Barbour in 2012, has a capacity for intellectual dishonesty that can take your breath away. He can denounce President Barack Obama’s health care reform with such apparent sincerity and venom that you forget his own plan in Massachusetts was essentially the same. If he thought there was some political advantage in asserting that two plus two is five, Romney would be out there within minutes with a speech about how business had taught him a thing or two that these government bureaucrats will never understand and promising that in his administration two plus two will equal six.
Politico
10/5/10
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