Romney doesn't understand his base
by digby
This is incredibly lame, even with the softball question:
I honestly can't see why average (non-nuts) Republicans could ever vote for this phony. Any Republican presidential candidate who doesn't reflexively and ostentatiously genuflect before the military and loudly declare his devotion to the troops is totally inept.
Keep in mind, it's not that he won't radically increase useless defense spending. That's GOP Keynesianism and he's very likely to do it. But as a politician, if he doesn't understand that the GOP coalition is dependent upon its belief in itself as a better defender of the troops than the hippie team on the other side, then he's just too incompetent to be president.
I've never seen any Republican in the last 40 years, no matter how lame, allow the Democrats to out-Patriot him. But he did it.
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