The fun-house-mirror weirdness of Romney 2012

The pretzel twists and turns of Mitt Romney's contradictory positions are coming back to meet themselves going the other way.

It's become quite familiar now for Romney et al to criticize Obama for the same policies Romney has himself taken in the past -- or to do a complete about-face on something.

But the latest from his campaign pits one current position of his against another current position of his.   There doesn't seem to be much way out of such a morass.  Here's what happened.

An Obama-supportive SuperPAC ran an ad featuring a man who says that Bain Capital took over the company he worked for, closed it down, and he lost his health insurance as a result.  His wife later died from an illness.

A Romney spokesperson initially attacked the ad as dishonest and accused the Obama campaign of using such attacks to distract from the real economic issues.

But then the Romney spokesperson went further and said that:  ". . . if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney's health care plan, they would have had health care."

Ooops !!!!    

That's the problem with distortions and lies or, for that matter, running away from your own truth:   You have to remember what you say -- or else you'll be doubling back and contradicting yourself.   You can't be running away from a major achievement of the Governor (his health care plan for MA) one day -- and then be touting it the next day to distract from criticism over your Bain activities.

Ralph