I think very litle of Mitt Romney, but I dislike out of context quotes used in attacks even more. they are not helpful, because the rebound negatively on the people who produce them.

I don't really like this video. A bunch of quotes taken out of context is the usual tactic of the far right. Don't go there Dan. There are plenty of ways to make Romney look bad without resorting to this.

@1, 2,

I think it's lampooning this:
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…

@1, which is what Mitt Romney did.

What part of "by his own standards" do #1 and #2 fail to understand? Especially since this is a web video aimed at the cognoscenti, while Romney's is an actual television ad - his first - aimed at the rubes.

As the video states, it's in line with what Mitt Romney's campaign is doing, so there's no reason for them to complain. It's true if what they implied about Obama is true.

Mitt Romney is the one sane voice in this election.

@7 I just consulted a thesaurus. Turns out "sane" is not a synonym of "flip-flopping", "waffling", "noncommittal" or "bland", so I'm not sure how you got that.

Although compared to the rest of the GOP field, he is the pinnacle of sanity, I'll give you that.

Sadly, Hernandez is right.

The most sane man in a field of total loons.

But he is a flip flopper extraordinaire ...

Al Capone was sane, but I wouldn't want him as President.

1 & 2 & anyone else too lazy to scroll down, here is the context:
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…

@1, @2: You guys are dumb.

Oh context, you old rascal. Please see #3 or #11.

@3 thanks, you are helpful and polite. Others, so I rseponded to a post without having read the entire Slog first, what a crime.

Indeed, a bad way to attack an adversary: quotes out of context. I'm wondering, what's Dan's purpose in putting this here?

@16: Funny that you should be talking about factual accuracy; you think that 20% of gays have AIDS! But more to the point, I'd like to address your woeful distortion of facts in your actual post:
"Every Liberal in the country except [Dan Savage] condemned Grayson."
Well, I never! Let's see, Grayson is a liberal, and I haven't heard of him condemning himself. I'm a liberal, and I haven't condemned him. Shall I continue?
I really wonder if you have any conceptualization of the difference between truth and untruth, or whether you just say what you want reality to reflect. What is your conceptual continuity?

No CCs on this one for some reason, so here goes:

[text on screen: 'Mitt Romney in his own words*']

Mitt: "We should just raise everybody's taxes.

There's nothing unique about the United States.

Government knows better than a free people how to guide an economy.

Fiscal responsibility is heartless and immoral.

Let us just raise your taxes some more. We just need little bit more.

America is just another nation with a flag.

[text on screen: '*All quotes accurate by the standards of Mitt Romney']

[ends]

Thanks to the people who helped clear that up for me. I was unaware of the context.

Will @9: FDR was a flip-flopper (he ran in 1932 on slashing government spending to get us out of a recession--sound familiar?). Every competent politician changes his or her mind in response to new developments. What kind of mindless insult is that?

@22: I think the point is that he's changed his mind substantially on many, many issues over the past year or few.
At some point it stops being that he genuinely changed his mind and starts becoming that he's trying to pander.

@18, ah, I see. Interesting. A good satire, showing what would happen if others did to you what you do to them. But what's politics without that? :-)