It is difficult to get into the nitty-gritty of whether the praise is deserved because it is basically impossible to overlook the fact that the applause comes mostly from the people who did everything they could seven years ago to destroy Romney’s character and reputation.
The 2012 presidential election was not just a tough race, featuring hard-nosed politics. The attacks leveled against Romney when he sought to oust President Barack Obama from the White House were not about mere policy criticisms and disagreements. Romney was portrayed as an irredeemable bigot, whose election would lead to the enslavement of women and minorities. When the news media were not participating directly in the destruction of Romney, who was just as honorable and decent then as he is now, they watched silently as it happened.
In 2012, for example, the Washington Post editorial board accused the Republican nominee not once, but twice of holding the electorate in “contempt,” arguing that Romney’s strategy clearly relied on his alleged hope that voters would be stupid enough to support him.
This week, however, the Washington Post declared its undying respect for Romney in an editorial titled, “History will remember Mitt Romney.”
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