September 19, 2012
Thank you Mitt
Mitt Romney is the gift that never stops giving. He makes it clear that he is part of the ruling class and that he doesn't really like or respect people below him, and yet he wants to be president.
Mitt running for president seems like a school prank. I can imagine a group of Romney-types sitting around the Commons, discussing how easy it would be to high-jack the political system. One of them says, "Let's do it. Let's take over the government." And they all shake hands and agree on a plan to make it happen. Maybe a little far-fetched but not too far.
His 47 percent arguement should knock him out of contention. Peggy Noonan wrote that he should drop out. The right says give us a Ryan-Rubio ticket. A little late for that stuff, boys.
But have no fear, the Wisconsin Sate Journal is on top of things. Front page: "Binkies may be bad for boys." Don't blame Romney. It was the binky his parents slipped into his bed.
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What Mitt needs to hear and understand is the fact he is not worthy of being POTUS. He has nothing to give this country nor its people. He is a taker, a user, an abuser. Ryan isn't all that far behind either.
-Pietr Haikuu | Hurley, Wis | September 19, 2012
People are missing the full story here on the Romney remarks. It isn't just him, it is essentially the whole GOP that has this attitude. Parse out the GOP comments on this and you will get the feeling that they are more upset as to HOW he said it than what he actually said.
This should give the hapless Obungle a golden opportunity to push for the whole Democratic slate. But, given how we get obsessed by the race for POTUS and forget the larger context of how he will actually be able to govern with another GOP majority we focus on comments by Obungle and Mitt only. MISTAKE.
Rmoney more or less gave the Dems their narrative for the remainder of the campaign. They had best use it and take it for the gift it really is.
-Griebnotz Doerkfester | (Glad) I Escaped, WI. | September 19, 2012
Romney said nothing your own liberal strategist's haven't said almost a year ago. I'm shocked to learn Mitt has lost the Garvey blog demographic.
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/the-future-of-the-obama-coalition/
-SW | Waukesha WI | September 19, 2012
Was Romney also referring to some of the highest 1% who find ways to avoid paying taxes, or offshore to avoid taxes???? Would we then have to say that same group of the 1% also won't vote for him?! !
Since the GOP "outfit" spin drs. refer to inviduals and huge companies as the same group, there is a bookmark that says that 30 major companies paid NO taxes. So....what's with the whining from the GOP? If 30 huge major companies can find a way to keep from paying taxes, surely with a bit of lawyering up, all companies can do that? But now they want Congress to simply lower taxes for individuals and companies of that highest 1% and stick it again to the middle class. Then it is all "legal"? But what would their CEO's do with their time! Oh, I forgot...an extra lobbyist.
-hmj | madison, wi | September 19, 2012
Wrong again SW, us college educated voters know Obama compromised our constitutional rights via executive fiat. Us college educated voters have seen Obama's environmental policies do more damage than Bush's. Us college educated voters have seen Obama cowtow to Wall St, Big Ag and everyother unpatriotic business in America. It's the laborer and working middle class that don't want to see their future and their childrens future stolen by the "new republicans" that support Obama
November 2011, really, times are a changing to fast for that.
-Dole O'Mite | Waukesha County | September 19, 2012
SW - the NYT article you refer to makes a very interesting point about the modern Democratic coalition. As the article states, the strategy of modern Democrats might possibly be summed up as follows - "All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up, on the one hand, of voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of educational attainment -- professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers and therapists -- and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic." However, don't think that's the group Mitt was referring to with the 47% comment. After all, professors, artists, lawyers, teachers,etc. do pay income taxes AND it would be pretty hard to argue that they don't take responsibility for their lives because they're so dependent on government. It appears your conclusion that Romney's remarks express the same idea that Democratic strategists are trying to implement to win in 2012 is way off the mark.
-Alexander Randall | Waukesha | September 19, 2012
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