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Walter Rhett: The Cultural Case Against Mitt Romney
Athletes have it, but writers and everyday people get it too: self doubt. For athletes, its driven by a prolonged drop in performance. For a writer, its loss is tied to an audience that suddenly doesnt get what once was a shared point of view and doubt leaps forward.
Im having mega doubts. The national audience is ignoring an issue I thought was clear cut. I thought it was a clean kill. I seen three clean kills in politics: Michael Dukakis (the tank ad, not Willie Horton), Tom Turnipseeds South Carolina governors race (Turnipseed having been treated for depression with electric shock, Lee Atwater declared the state didnt need a governor hooked up to jumper cables), and Strom Thurmonds takedown of Abe Fortis Supreme Court nomination (Thurmond set up 24-hour private Senatorial screenings of the results of Fortis ruling supporting community standards for decency in a case over pornography). No, four: Baracks takedown of Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner last year.
But Romney has a bigger bulls-eye. It rivals Benedict Arnold in its nasty, anti-American duplicity. It has everything in common with sleazy, morally bankrupt, self-aggrandizing, power-mad dictators of lesser developed countries. This one, I thought, was in the pocket.
But no. The rapidly spreading news of Mitt Romneys 12 or more offshore accounts, in dummy corporations he legally established, turned into a loud inquisition about his bypassing the tax code. Thats the main reason for opening accounts in the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands! Or Switzerland. Mitt has accounts in all three. But these arguments miss the mark, and for three reasons Im left with self doubt about Americas common sense...
More at: http://www.democratsforprogress.com/2012/07/11/digging-deeper-the-cultural-case-against-mitt-romney/
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Walter Rhett: The Cultural Case Against Mitt Romney (Original Post)
DemocratsForProgress
Jul 2012
OP
Mencken: Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public
rfranklin
Jul 2012
#4
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)1. K&R
The Magistrate
(95,264 posts)2. Sound Analysis, Sir
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)3. Good to see the Obama/Trump example
Because that was fucking flawless. The Chicago way indeed!
Julie
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)4. Mencken: Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public
The right has whipped a sizeable portion of the population into a crazed frenzy, screaming socialism, fascism, death panels, death tax, and government takeover. There was a LTTE in my local paper this morning with a letter containing all those epithets and more. Years ago, they probably would have referred the letter to Greystone, the nearby insane asylum. Today they publish it as a sampling of public opinion.