2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPOLL: Where is Mitt Romney in terms of political ideology?
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Chameleon | |
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Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle | |
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Kitteh | |
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elleng
(131,074 posts)Because that's always the correct answer! :p
Cats > Romney
Cats Against Romney
Kennah
(14,304 posts)WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Kurovski
(34,655 posts)Eisenhower would get reamed with a curling iron by Bill O'Reilly today if he sauntered onto his festival of moron-fawning on FOX.
Kennah
(14,304 posts)... this Eisenhower guy is spending money like a drunken soldier. Money for defense being spent on roads in a federal takeover of transportation in this country. He calls it the interstate highway system. Sounds communist to me. And has anyone really looked at his war record? I mean he was a General type guy. Never saw combat. Just sat in an office.
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)Whining about privatizing military operations. Forcing his job-killing and paranoid policies on the AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)8 Reasons Why Mitt Romney Is More Right Wing Than George W. Bush
During the primary season, Mitt Romney was frequently derided by his Republican opponents as a Massachusetts Moderate. This isnt true.
Last week, a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee suggested the policies advanced this year by Mitt Romney and the Republicans would be like the policies of the Bush administration just updated.
A close review of Romneys positions shows that Romney has updated George W. Bushs positions by moving substantially to the right in a number of key areas. As detailed below, compared to this years presumptive Republican nominee, Bush looks moderate: <SNIP>
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Full article with the LIST of reasons listed here: http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/04/24/470541/mitt-romney-versus-george-bush/
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)Chameleon.
Or whore, as I see it.
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)maybe chimpanzee?
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)He flings a lot of poop and makes "laughing" noises while doing it.
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)You are way more brilliant than I thought, ellisonz. Most astute.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)It's from all of the root beer I'm swilling - sugar high!
angrychair
(8,732 posts)because "self-serving jerk" wasn't an a choice.
DFW
(54,436 posts)You have to tell me where Romney is and whose cameras are on him . THEN I can tell
you where he stands ideologically--for the next minute anyway.
Romney's political stances have a very short shelf life.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)I was really missing it. And when did that spell check button appear?
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)Say anything to get elected. Pass any law that puts money in your pocket.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)That's his ideology.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)center rising
(971 posts)Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)would be a devoted Communist and believe in it with all of his heart. If classic Fascism was a dominant ideology and would give him the career he wanted he would be a devoted Fascist and believe in it with all of his heart. If New Deal liberalism was a dominant ideology and would give him the career he wanted he would be a devoted New Deal liberal and believe in it with all of his heart.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)It's his wife's Caddy, but we know he paid for it. Staying home and raising kids doesn't warrant a check, according to Mr. Mittens.
"I wanted to increase the work requirement," said Romney. "I said, for instance, that even if you have a child 2 years of age, you need to go to work. And people said, 'Well that's heartless.' And I said, 'No, no, I'm willing to spend more giving day care to allow those parents to go back to work. It'll cost the state more providing that daycare, but I want the individuals to have the dignity of work.'"
Regardless of its level of dignity, for Ann Romney, her work raising her children would not have fulfilled her work requirement
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/15/mitt-romney-mothers-welfare-moms_n_1426113.html
Joe Bacon
(5,165 posts)In all my life, I've never seen a bigger bullshitter than R-Money!
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)RZM
(8,556 posts)I talked about this with my RW libertarian father a couple months ago. He believes Romney probably is privately pretty moderate, but can't dare show it now. I didn't think so at first, but now I'm not so sure. The whole thing with the Mittster is that it's impossible to tell.
I thought the same thing about Edwards. He tacked left because he felt it was the best strategic move. I think that's the case with Rmoney. He's in it for the power, not the ideals.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)Think there's any hope for your father? Mine used to be a Republican but gave it up around the Clinton impeachment.
RZM
(8,556 posts)He was a liberal most of his life and gave it up for conservatism in the 90s. But at least he's a libertarian. He's an atheist, believes homosexuality is 100 percent biological and thinks weed and prostitution should be legal.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)I used tease him a lot about the Falwell types being on his side, especially since he's always been a militant atheist. He's admitted before that he's not happy about it, but that's the way the game goes. Everybody has their relatives they aren't proud of. Same thing goes for here too. But don't say that in GD
Have you tried gifting him Dreams From My Father? Just an idea. I have some hillbilly relatives in Missoura I don't have contact with much.
But that would be kind of funny. He'd probably read it too. I haven't read it myself. Funny aside, he read Bob Shrum's memoir and told me Shrum admitted in it that he can neither type nor drive. That seems pretty implausible for a high-level strategist. But apparently it's in there.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)It might work. He's a reader. You're ahead already! I mean if you're a libertarian with the we're all in our own boat attitude, the autobiography of Barack Obama is powerful stuff. Kinda like how the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglas were very influential in their own times!
RZM
(8,556 posts)Franklin was a polymath and founding father. Douglas was a former slave who rose to become a prominent figure. Obama is, well, a guy who made it in politics. While his presidency is historic, he really isn't. Not trying to offend anybody here, but he's just a dude who's really good at what he does. That just doesn't fit with the great historical figures. His presidency will go down as a great moment, but he's not going to go down as a great man. Just a good man, which he is. But good men are pretty common. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it's a damn site from Douglas and Franklin.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)...as Bildungsroman:
Also:
It's a little early to make a judgment like that IMHO - the man is only 50 years old. I think your analysis there reflects how jaded we've become about the very possibility of "great men" being existent in our own age. You sir, are a skeptic!
RZM
(8,556 posts)But how much can the man do as an ex-president? My prediction is that he'll be more of a Clinton than a Carter. Clinton has actually done a lot since his presidency, but he'll always be the 'Big Dawg' in the history books. Carter, however, has taken some interesting positions and done some notable stuff. He'll probably be known as much for his post-presidency life as for his presidency. The thing is, that's not too common. I don't see Obama writing books about Palestine. I see him being a strong Democrat and party poobah, a la Clinton. Hell, maybe we'll even seen 'Michelle 2020' posters eventually
But who knows, I could be surprised there.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)...to the present necessarily. He'll be young yet when he leaves office. It will be interesting to see what happens after he takes down Romney.