(So far) no candidate has had his words come back to haunt him on YouTube as much as Mitt Romney. It started with this video from his 1994 debate with Ted Kennedy espousing downright liberal positions on abortion and gay marriage.
Tonight, I went to YouTube looking for clips from the Republican debate (because I’m stuck in a hotel without MSNBC and MSNBC.com won’t serve the live feed to my Mac). Searching on “debate” for the latest clips what do I find instead? More Mitt moments. Here — horrors — he denies Reagan thrice before the cock crows:
The same user who put that up, “romneyrecord,” also put up a moment from the 1994 debate with Romney endorsing gay Boy Scouts. And then there’s this literary moment: Romney giving a good review to an L. Ron Hubbard novel. He makes clear he’s not converting to Tom Cruise’s church. So it’s more damning of his taste, perhaps. And here he flipflops: The Bible is his favorite book. Not the Book of Mormon? Oh, it’s complicated being Mitt.
6 questions Mitt Romney must now answer:
1) Mr. Romney, you said L. Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth was your favorite novel. Then later you clarified by saying it was only your favorite SCIENCE FICTION novel, and that it was written before Scientology was founded. So now that you know it was actually written 29 years AFTER Scientology was founded, is it still your favorite science fiction novel?
2) Most critics outside of Scientology found this novel to be dreadful. Many of them couldn’t even finish it – it was that bad. But you described it as “fun.” Specifically, what part(s) of it were “fun?”
3) If this is your favorite science fiction novel, what other science fiction novels have you read that were, by definition, not as good as Battlefield Earth?
4) When did you read Battlefield Earth?
5) Since Battlefield Earth came out in 1982, you couldn’t have read it before then, what led you to believe that it was written before Scientology was founded?
6) Battlefield Earth is over 1,000 pages. Is it the biggest novel you’ve ever read? How long did it take you to read?
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