Chris Cillizza and Dan Balz have more on our man Mitt and the assortment of Winston Smiths who serve him:
By noon on Jan. 10, Matt Rhoades and Kevin Madden knew they had a problem.
The two men handle communications for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s presidential exploratory committee and had been told about a video flying around the Internet that spliced clips from Romney’s 1994 debate with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). In it, Romney (R), then running for the Senate in a losing campaign against Kennedy, voiced support for abortion rights and gay rights — positions he has since renounced.
Romney’s political inner circle, alerted to the threat, decided to strike back quickly. Less than eight hours after the attack appeared, a video of Romney rebutting the charges was being sent to his supporters and to Republican blogs.
“In a viral information age, a distortion of the record can quickly sink in as fact,” Madden said. “It was very important to show that what was an anonymous attack eventually became a moment of strength for our campaign.” [Emphasis added]
What strange, twisted relationships to fact exist in today’s campaign world that video of a candidate saying what he believes ten years ago (pro-choice, pro-gun control, etc) is somehow a distortion of that candidate’s record. That somehow those videos of Romney debating Kennedy in 1994 are no longer fact because Romney no longer holds those ideological positions.
We’ve always been at war with Eurasia. At least that’s what the Romney campaign would have us believe.
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[...] Romney has confirmed something that everyone following this race and paying attention to his constant evolution towards a more conservative ideology already knew. Mitt Romney used to be pro-choice. While this admission may make it less likely for Romney staffers to call video of Mitt making pro-choice statements a distortion of facts, it isn’t going to change the fact that Romney is a recent convert. [...]
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