Romney’s Campaign: A Trojan Horse
Today brings us another wonderful article by Charles M. Blow that breaks down Mitt Romney’s campaign, and it’s not about the economy, stupid. Blow writes:
The president tried to help fix a mess that he didn’t make, but the fixing has come slowly. Is that failure? Romney and the Republicans say yes.
And, if they can keep framing it as a failure, they can push for, and maybe even push through, their brutal budgets, which cut programs that help the poor and struggling and benefit the rich.
And while they push their budgets, they make savage attacks on a broad range of issues: voting rights, women’s rights, gay rights, immigration, etc.
This is the trick: Run on fiscal conservatism; bring social conservatism along for the ride. The Trojan horse platform.
Remember when talking to your independent friends, Romney is at the head of socially conservative political party. They will use any means necessary to put forth their agenda to make the US better for rich white men.
What’s old is new again:
“Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.” – David Stockman, 1981
I don’t think the 1% elite care about social conservatism one way or another, as long as it doesn’t interfere with their looting. And if it helps them loot, they’ll sign up with it.
Blow says in his article that this economy is going to take a long time to fix, he is wrong, at the pace we are going, it is going to take forever to fix. And last time I checked, forever is way longer than a long time.
No – when we make the Bush tax cuts permanent, THEN it will take forever.
Since Rusty is wrong about everything, forever must really be only a few months.
On wonders where Rusty was when the bottom fell out of the economy. People then were predicting a long recovery — which tends to be the case when a credit bubble bursts. The one thing that might give it all a boost would be to aggressively address the continued housing mess. There’s no political will to do that, though; the programs in place are wieldy and ineffective; and it is for certain that RMoney won’t do anything to help. He’ll be too busy helping his pals loot the place.