"The only reason they're not repudiating his behavior, his threat to our democracy, our decency, our foundation is just because of political consequences".
By not repudiating Mr. Adelson's vow to spend as much as $100 million on their behalf, the two candidates seem more eager to keep the "super PAC" dollars flowing than to preserve the integrity of their campaign.
Mr. Gingrich criticized Mr. Romney in the days before the Iowa caucuses for not repudiating a 30-second anti-Gingrich ad from Romney supporters, which a fact checker at The Washington Post awarded "Four Pinocchios" for errors.
At the end of the day, he is not repudiating a fiscal contract, and is unlikely to push outsize spending increases that would invite financial markets to attack France the way they have recently in Spain.
In a letter to the Corriere della Sera newspaper in May, he made it clear he was not repudiating his family but admitted that he wanted to lead a clean life.
In celebrating "Vertigo" as the greatest film of all time, film critics are not repudiating "Kane" but, rather, extrapolating from it, ratifying the French New Wave as the crucial revolution in the history of cinema.
