 1 Mitt Romney as 2012 presidential candidate was Mr Nice Guy until Democrats got ahold of him Then the public found out that he had abused his dog caused an employee to die of cancer and sadistically imprisoned women in a torture device known as a binder All this derived from the Obama campaign s suitably named kill Romney strategy Of course candidate Obama s own personal history was deemed off limits Hypocrisy is a familiar trait of leftist totalitarians 