Romney steered to a win in Michigan
SO, MITT Romney managed to win the Michigan primary ("Romney bounces back in Mich.," Page A1, Jan. 16). Color me unimpressed.
Romney won the contest by re-creating himself as the very "European socialist" he might decry Hillary Clinton for being. In speeches before the primary, he promised Michigan voters a huge federal bailout, pledging to dump billions of taxpayer dollars into a poorly run, noncompetitive auto industry.
You quote Romney saying Tuesday night that Michigan voters "got out and told America what they needed to hear." The reality is that Romney, ever the political chameleon, told Michigan voters just what they wanted to hear.
I congratulate him on his win in Michigan. It will be fun seeing how far and how fast he can run from his Michigan stump speeches when the race moves on to South Carolina. Will South Carolinians believe him when he morphs back to the small-government fiscal conservative he was claiming to be just a week ago?
BRANDEN WOLNER
Auburn
RE "CANDIDATES abandoning small-government ideology" (Page A1, Jan. 16): Peter Canellos's analysis of GOP presidential candidates finding moderation on the philosophy of small government imparts much credence to the adage that a Republican is just a Democrat who never had to collect unemployment.
Working people? Yes, we are great in number.
STEPHEN BOUDREAU
Natick 