By Matt Taibbi
...I was shocked (click here) to hear him say aloud in the second debate that the richest people would not have their tax burdens reduced, especially since he spent the entire primary season running as a supply-sider who would create growth by cutting taxes on capital gains, interest, dividends, and eliminating the estate tax, cuts that overwhelmingly favor the very rich....
...When Obama tried to nail him on his record on contraception, noting that Romney had suggested that employers should be able to decide whether or not to allow insurance coverage of contraceptives, Romney effortlessly replied: "I don't believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care or not. Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives."...
This is an article from 2012 in Rolling Stone. Romney is 'out there' because he can be, because he is bored with his life without politics and because he may be the only 'closely reasonable' candidate when the primary season comes to a close.
Think about all the other so called 2016 candidates and tell me there is one, just one, that isn't so extreme on one topic or another that Romney just might be the one left at the end of GOP primary season that really delivered on moving the party closer to the center.
