You might remember Mitt Romney - he was a Republican Presidential candidate who was thankfully knocked out of the race by John McCain after losing significantly on ‘Super Tuesday’. Having a personal fortune running into the hundreds of millions of dollars, he tried to subvert the democratic process by funding his own campaign massively out of his own pocket, in essence buying his supporters.

Reinforcing this apparent disdain for democracy, he dropped out of the Presidential race on February 7th, claiming that if he were to remain in the race, he’d be stalling the national campaign and making it easier for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the Democratic contenders for the Presidency - saying that “in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding surrender to terror.”

That’s right - he claimed his less conservative opponents are “surrendering to terror”. Whatever that means.

Now, its well known that politicians talk a lot of nonsense - Romney though, is perhaps responsible for the biggest fallacy since “there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq” - saying during a speech about religion, in which he defended his own Mormon faith - that “Freedom requires religion, just as religion requires freedom.”

Clearly a man who is unfamiliar with the history of religion, and the events of, say, the French or American revolutions, and the works of Thomas Paine, is also unfamiliar with, er, the present. Clearly Mitt couldn’t have been thinking of Godless Europe or pious Saudi Arabia when coming up with his speech.

But at least he’s a man of principles, who’ll stand up for what he believes is right, right? During his time as Governor of Massachusetts, he was pro-choice and pro-gay rights - that’s pretty good, isn’t it? Oh, wait, as soon as he started to run for President he pandered to the far-right and changed his mind to oppose them instead.

It’s a good job he’s pretty much a political irrelevance now.

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