Blake Shelton Quotes
I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.
This is an example of a totally absurd intellectual position that the dynamics of a modern political campaign into which candidate can by pushed. In his primary campaign for the nomination, Romney had been castigated by other Republicans for changing his political positions to suite the conservative wing of the party. He was labeled a “flip-flopper with no consistent views principles. In this quotation, he had distanced himself from a campaign plan created by a rich Republican that would attack President Obama for the fact that before the Presidency, he had attended a church with a radical pastor. The plan was to tie Obama to the radical views of the pastor, despite the fact that Obama himself had castigated the views of the pastor. A reporter tried to remind Romney that months before, he had appeared on a TV show and himself said that Obama was not a good President because he had attended the church of the radical pastor. The reporter specifically asked Romney if he still stood by what he had said on the radio in the light of his current position which was the opposite, Romney had changed his mind. However, even though he could not remember what he had even said, and fearful that he would be again accused of being a flip-flopper, he felt it was necessary for him to tell the reporter and the public that whatever he had said, he stood by it. There are few fields or situations where any intelligent human being would take the position that whatever he/she had said in the past, was still their current view. However politics is often the exception and this quotation illustrates that.
Blake Tollison Shelton is an American country music singer and television personality. In 2001, he made his debut with the single "Austin". The lead-off single from his self-titled debut album, "Austin" spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The now Platinum-certified debut album also produced two more top 20 entries ("All Over Me" and "Ol' Red").
