It’s exceedingly rare that I agree with any part of a Peggy Noonan column, but the following is indisputably true:
“There was something known as Reaganism. It was a real movement within the party and then the nation. Reaganism had meaning. You knew what you were voting for. It was a philosophy that people understood. Philosophies are powerful. They carry you, and if they are right and pertinent to the moment they make you inevitable.”
“There is no such thing as Romneyism and there never will be. Mr. Romney has never encompassed a philosophical world. He has never become the symbol of an attitude toward government, or an approach to freedom or fairness. ‘Romneyism’ is just ‘Mitt should be president.’ That is not enough.”
Another thing that I feel compelled to mention is that Ronald Reagan had some problems with the truth, particularly the truth of what happened in real life and what happened only in some movie he had seen. But he was a pillar of honesty compared to Mitt Romney, who lies with a shamelessness I have never encountered in any other human being outside of a Saturday Night Live parody sketch.
Simply put, Mitt Romney is the biggest liar that I know about currently living and breathing on this planet. I’ve written about this over and over and over again, but I had sincerely hoped that I would never have to point it out again. The most dispiriting thing about another Romney campaign is that it will continue this pathological assault on any semblance of civil political discourse based on at least some mutually agreed upon facts.
