3 Scary Decisions Handed Down by the Far Right Supreme Court

[caseymoz]

43. Romney of 1994 was close to Bush I

And from his history at Bain Capital, we know that he's very pro-corporate and considers corporate the exact way the country should be run. In government, that comes out as close to legalizing bribery. Bush I gave us that entrenched, corrupt, conservative paperweight, Clarence Thomas. Like Bush, the Romney is too banal to consider morality. It's the way Bush got us into Iraq in the first place, but suddenly deciding Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait was the moral equivalent of Hitler.

Plus, though personally moderate, Bush I was one of the worst panderers to the RW that there was. Like Bush, if he sometimes swings liberal, it's not because any deep conviction will drive him there.

As a historic lesson to Romney, the alienated right threw Bush's ass out and instead voted for Perot, who was kind of the sink for alienated voters at the time. From Bush I, we got the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and I think those are it.

Also, since all of Obamas judicial nominations beneath the Supreme Court have been blocked, along with any liberal legislation he might propose, we can't see how liberal he could be domestically. It's against any political calculations for a President to put up legislation you know is going to be turned down. Those are all political defeats. You have to grade him on a curve.

At best with Romney, you'll end up with a less professional Obama. At best with Obama, you'll end up with somewhere better than Bill Clinton. The argument is clear cut, if not compelling.