"Last November, the New York Times ran a piece titled, "Building a Better Mitt Romney-Bot." Assessing the aloof and socially awkward Romney's stumbles during his first White House run, author Robert Draper explained, "His camp doesn't need to turn their guy into someone you'd have a beer with. They just need to eliminate the bugs in the machine."
Now as Election Day nears, Romney and his programmers have made quite clear that they have designed political cowardice into his operating system. And with good reason. After all, Romney's gymnastic flip-flops serially transformed him from "progressive Republican" to social conservative and back to business manager left both him and American voters dizzy. Just as problematic, his pathological lying spawned its own cottage industry (Steve Benen's chronicles of Mitt's Mendacity is now up to Volume XXX), leaving analysts to turn to Freud, Shakespeare and even quantum physics to comprehend the scope and speed of his dissembling.
So to avoid political self-destruction over the details of his own policy proposals, Team Mitt has coded its Romney-Bot to auto-respond, "no comment"."
