Spokeswoman Andrea Saul later walked back the comment telling the National Review that Romney “would of course support legislation aimed at providing greater protections for life.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Rather clever (and sneaky) isn’t it? Maximize the audience for your just-pretend moderate views and minimize the audience for your genuine extremist positions.<\/p>\n
Romney’s Political Hack Trick (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
Mitt’s slick and unusual tack
\nProves the man’s a political hack.
\nHe feigns moderate views
\nWhere he’ll get the most news.
\nThen staff quietly walks it all back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Once Mitt Romney clinched the Republican presidential nomination, and Republicans were stuck with him, Mitt adopted a rather slick trick: When coverage is at its maximum (on TV, in front of large crowds, and in major newspaper interviews) he feigns moderate or centrist positions, only to have staffers take them back the next day. Romney […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,95,72,21,20,159,126,6,7,3,9,17],"tags":[2823,2113,2792,2786,2802,2112,2764,1382,1723,851,1250,740,2111,841,702],"class_list":["post-8143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-rights","category-barack-obama","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-hypocrisy-humor","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-white-house","tag-abortion-rights","tag-andrea-saul","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign-humor","tag-debate-humor","tag-des-moines-register","tag-election-satire","tag-extremist-candidates","tag-iowa","tag-legislation-satire","tag-mitt-romney","tag-national-review","tag-political-hacks","tag-republican-hypocrisy","tag-republicans-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8143"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8160,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions\/8160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}