Thus primed, I had a memory flash while reading Romney's response when a reporter asked him whether he agreed that Obama should be tried for treason. "No, of course not," Romney said. Of course not! Never mind verbal assaults like this one, delivered two years ago, a precursor of the daily Romney demagoguery to which we've all become numb. It's a statement Romney released on March 22, 2010, in the wake of the passage of the Affordable Care Act:
America has just witnessed an unconscionable abuse of power. President Obama has betrayed his oath to the nation — rather than bringing us together, ushering in a new kind of politics, and rising above raw partisanship, he has succumbed to the lowest denominator of incumbent power: justifying the means by extolling the ends. He promised better; we deserved better.
