They sound the same to me

Josh Marshall has his "cultural-political tuning fork" out and doesn't like the vibe he gets from Mitt Romney.

But Romney seems so transparently phoney, so willing to say anything that I find him genuinely frightening. And this is something I don't feel about any of the other credible Republican presidential candidates, though I obviously have criticisms of each. Romney seems almost like a caricature of the political phoney.

And he's right. Mitt is stomach-turningly fake...just about the ickiest human imaginable. But Marshall raises an interesting question in this little thought bubble as he compares his perceived phoniness in Mitt to the widely perceived phoniness of Bill Clinton and asks,

So who makes you hear the dog whistle? And what sort of cultural imprint makes some of us hear it with (a shocking phoney like) Mitt Romney and others with Bill Clinton?

My answer is, it's the same sound..and if you only hear it from one and not the other, you aren't listening with both ears.