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I continue to find this kind of logic baffling, although if you’re a vanishing breed of moderate Republican (or particularly clueless postNaderite dead-ender) I suppose you have no choice but to try to convince yourself:

David Brooks blames the Romney 47% comments on maladroitness: the awkward mis-expression of a man pretending to be something he’s not.

Likely so.

But they also reveal that Romney has been reshaped by this campaign.

For reasons that Jon Chait lays out in detail (1, 2), I don’t think there’s the slightest reason to believe that the Romney captured on tape isn’t the “real Romney.” As far as I can tell, there is in fact every reason to believe that the Romney who tells people that as son of a governor and car company president he succeeded entirely by the sweat of his own brow and anyone who didn’t is a hopeless parasite is, in fact, telling the truth.

Again, it’s unknowable and doesn’t matter — as a president situated in the contemporary Republican Party he will govern like the guy ranting about the 47%ers whether he believes it or not. But I have no idea why anyone thinks that the Romney who was only as conservative as a governor of Massachusetts could be and remain viable is the “real one.” Pretty much all evidence suggests that the Romney who considers himself a Galtian superhero is the “real Romney” and the moderate Romney was the panderer. The idea that Romney is secretly like his father is nothing but projection.

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