The President’s opening statement at the next debate with Mr. Mitt maybe should be something like the following.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, Candy Crowley, and Mr. Mitt. Before we get too far into tonight’s effort, I was hoping we could clarify a point. Which Mr. Mitt am I debating tonight? Is it the former centrist governor of Massachusetts who provided the model for Obamacare? Is it the uncompromising far right ideologue of the Republican primaries for whom Obamacare was an obscenity? Or is it the etch-a-sketch semi-centrist who suddenly appeared a couple of weeks ago and whose objections to Obamacare appear limited mostly to the name?
And it’s not just Obamacare. Mr. Mitt in his various guises has been all over the map on taxes, budget deficits, financial regulation, other types of regulation, and foreign policy.
All this shaking and baking makes a substantive give and take on the issues rather difficult. Our exchanges are in danger of being reduced to:
“That’s not my position.”
“Well, it was once was your position.”
“No it wasn’t.”
“It certainly was.”
“Liar, liar, pants on fire.”
“So’s your mother.”
Somehow, I feel the American people are expecting a little more from us. So I’m pleading with you Mr. Mitt, tell me, the folks here in the audience, and the millions of viewers round the nation, which of you am I facing tonight?
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