2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Gamechanger? ABC News Reports on Romney's extensive holdings in Cayman Islands. [View all]salin
(48,955 posts)"I want to run the country, but I also don't believe that personally I should pay taxes on some of my money that is due t the govt because of my personal greed..." Is a meme that doesn't engender trust that one is interested in actually serving the greater good for the country. In this economy... this is potentially bad for Romney. He could become the symbol for the really rich who don't believe that they have to pay fairly into the system that makes our system (that has benefited him enough to make tons of money to shelter in the Caymans) work.
Had this been in the late nineties during the tech boom, when many small investors believed that they could make out big on picking the fund that rightly selected the next big thing... then this narrative might be grandly popular. However, in this recession, this narrative could become toxic.