That's just one of the words that come to mind listening to Mitt Romney give his primary victory speech tonight. Other words include ballsy, incredible, untrue, and insulting.
Taken on its own, it was a good political speech, full of promises and visions of a future of wonderfulness. Taken in context with everything else Romney has said this campaign, it was so full of contradictions and reversed positions, it's a wonder his tongue didn't tie itself into knots.
Literally within days of praising the so-called Ryan plan -- that grossly one-sided financial giveaway to large corporations and rich people -- which would, among other things, double student loan interest rates and cut food stamps, Romney tried to portray himself as the champion of families struggling on food stamps and under the weight of student debt.
This is par for the course for Romney. His whole political career has been rife with changed positions left and right to suit whatever audience he's addressing and whatever office he's seeking. It seems appropriate he's performing political gymnastics as the summer Olympic Games draw nearer.
He's not alone, of course. Just last week, former NY mayor and long-time putz Rudi Giuliani heartily endorsed Romney's candidacy. A couple months ago, Giuliani said of Romney that he'd never seen a politician take so many different sides of issues, changing his position "on a dime." Such rank political hypocrisy is why so many citizens are fed up with politics.
And that's exactly what the pols want. Get those decent people exasperated and convinced that nothing will ever change, and it never will. Once we give up and, through our own inaction, hand the reins over to the cynical politicians, we have given away the store.
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