The Street - "Occupy Wall Street Could Be Mitt Romney's Ticket to Occupy White House" - ROFL!

[TomCADem]

Here is Wall Street site the Street arguing that Romney, who has been outspoken is his defense of Wall Street and attacks on Unions, can pivot and also be the voice of the Occupy Wall Street movement. So, after calling OWS "dangerous," now Romney is going to spin OWS as being IN SUPPORT OF WALL STREET!"

http://www.thestreet.com/story/11291695/1/occupy-wall-street-could-be-mitt-romneys-ticket-to-occupy-white-house.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN

At first, he thought Occupy Wall Street was dangerous. Now, Mitt Romney understands the source of the group's anger. It is though America's anger. The people at the center of a global financial crisis have been laughing all the way to the bank, on the coattails of taxpayer-funded bailouts and by maximizing personal wealth at the expense of shareholders and employees.

As a presidential hopeful with private and public sector experience, Romney is able to understand the source of this anger and he would be right to champion resolving it. Wall Street is not a symbol of what's wrong in America. It is the source for what's wrong with America.

America's economic health and wealth has relied on private ownership and free market capitalism. Wall Street's reckless risk takers caused foundational institutions to be propped up by state bailouts. That's a solution used in communism to paper over its failings.

Americans have always been motivated by meritocracy. Wall Street has the scent of kleptocracy. This is what happens in dictatorships and with crony capitalism. This is not supposed to happen in democratic, free market capitalism America.

[vi5]

1. We can laugh all we want at bullshit like this....

..and it is ridiculous and hysterical in it's audacity and scarcity of anything resembling reality.

But the fact is that all our wonderful Democratic consultants and advisers and a good chunk of the actual politicians themselves buy into republican and republican media framing of this stuff. And then they act accordingly.

So yeah, on it's face this is ridiculous. But how many ridiculous things have been thrown out there that we all in the real world go "HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! That's so ridiculous!!!!" only to then have our Democratic leaders go "Hmmmmm....well it may seem odd but we don't want to take any risks or alienate the wrong people. So maybe we should take this seriously!!!".

[WCGreen]

2. Yep, totally agree...

It's curious that the party that is suppose to be so liberal is really reactionary in many cases...

[monmouth]

3. I haven't read the article but on HP Buchanan says OWS will

end very, very badly....Ooooooh..

[MFrohike]

4. Terrible article

It starts with an unsupported statement that Romney knows how to "fix" Wall Street. It then degenerates into a bunch of slogans and empty platitudes. If that guy is a trader, I sure hope they keep him away from the customers or they'll be out of business soon.

[uponit7771]

5. Yeap, he'll tell them corporations are people and they'll love him with a bat