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Maybe Romney Needs To Have Some Engrams Removed

Already a monumental fraud, he can’t even keep straight which novel is his favourite

Now, I understand how you might confuse Huckleberry Finn with Battlefield Earth.  No, really.  Both were written by Americans, and both have the letter ‘i’ in their titles, so the similarities are so extensive that it was almost inevitable that Romney would switch them around in his mind.

Unfortunately for Romney, regular voters who don’t pay that much attention will get it into their heads that Romney, a Mormon, likes books written by the founder of the wacky cult Scientology, and that there is therefore some reasonable association to be made between them.  He has managed to take what is already guaranteed to be a difficult issue for him and made it that much worse.  On the other hand, perhaps he is looking to pick up big money on the Hollywood fundraising circuit.

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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