Does this recent interview with USA Today feature a weird pseudo admission of previous inauthenticity by Romney?
Q: Why haven’t you done better with core Republican voters?
A: You know, I can’t begin to assess how people make their minds up in deciding what to answer in polls. I do know that I have a distinctive experience base, that my views on issues have been detailed in a book I wrote two years ago. And if people are attracted to that experience and those views, I’ll be the nominee. If not, I won’t.
I’ve now been experienced enough in the political sphere to know that you sleep a lot better if you express your views honestly and you don’t worry about the outcome.
The black-is-white-ness of the response is in keeping with the remainder of the interview, however, in which he claims that President Obama has been as divisive and partisan as any President in the modern era. The defense of such a claim is quite the non sequitur:
Q: The White House says it is Republicans who have refused to act in a bipartisan way.
A: The president is conveniently forgetting for his first two years he had a Democrat House and a Democrat Senate. He simply cannot blame Republicans for the failure of his economic policies. … He had a virtual free hand in pursuing his economic plans, and those plans have failed. … He is good at campaigning and blaming, but leadership seems to be beyond his grasp.
You know, the whole prolonged social and political stability thing has been good and all—and for that I’m grateful to our two-party system. But sometimes it’s a real drag to think that for all intents and purposes you’ve got to actually vote for one of these guys.
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