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Bashir: To pivot or not to pivot, that is the question for Romney
MSNBC’s Martin Bashir summons “Hamlet” to discuss the slings and arrows – not to mention the outrageous fortune – that marks any discussion of the “severely conservative” Mitt Romney and his years at Bain Capital.
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It’s now time to clear the air and with Ron Paul finally accepting the inevitable, and suspending his campaign, Mitt Romney can now head unchallenged and unencumbered toward the nomination in Tampa.
But the period between now and August could actually prove to be even more hazardous than those primaries and that’s because all of us will be trying to figure out who, exactly, Mitt Romney will choose to be and how he plans to run against the president.
It was Shakespeare’s Hamlet who said these immortal words to Ophelia, the woman he was desperately trying to court, “God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.”
Or in Mitt Romney’s case another and another and another. We’ve already seen him pivot towards the center and it’s hard to imagine that as he panders toward Independent voters, he’ll describe himself like this again.:
Mitt Romney: “I am severely conservative.”
But the real fear for Romney, as evidenced by the two minute video about the collapse of GST Steel in Kansas, is that his past is about to come back and haunt him, filling the vacuum between now and the convention.
Of course, he may try to redefine himself for the umpteenth time, but, like Hamlet, he may be forced to admit the brutal truth, “I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my back that I have thoughts to put them in.”
