Why does Romney keep talking about the Soviet Union ?

[steve2470]

Are he and his campaign really that ignorant, or is this a dog whistle to his ignorant base ?

[sakabatou]

1. I'm thinking dog whistle

[kardonb]

8. thinking

the answer is utter stupidity and ignorance .

[sakabatou]

10. Why the hard time?

[Scuba]

2. Appealing to elderly women who don't understand how muslin can be a threat.

[CTyankee]

3. What about Czechoslovakia!

[longship]

5. It's like a drive into Wisconsin

[CTyankee]

6. At least McCain was tough on Czechoslovakia back in 08.

Ya gotta be tough on these commies, I tell ya...

[Lucy Goosey]

4. He's planning on beating Reagan to the punch...

...and retroactively ending the cold war before St. Ronnie can. Then everyone will love him!

Seriously, though, I have no idea. It doesn't even seem to make sense as a dogwhistle.

[LiberalLoner]

7. I think it's his way of appealing to the over 60 repukes.

All the repukes I know, personally, are over the age of 60 (most of them over the age of 70) and the ones I know are all alcoholics (active) and therefore brain damaged. They don't keep up on current events, they are sort of stuck in the era when their brains last were able to make some sense of the world.

I believe Romney is catering to them, by going back in time as it were and using these old terms that they understand and feel comfortable with.

Kind of like in Alzheimers units where everything is made to look like long ago, in order to comfort the Alzheimers patients who can't deal with new things and things changing.

Repukes are kind of like very evil and unpleasant Alzheimer's patients (no insult intended to Alzheimers' patients, many of whom are still delightful people in spite of their terrible disease.)

[HopeHoops]

9. He didn't get the memo. The USSR is dead.

[DFW]

11. Well, if you would be so kind as to tell him that it hasn't existed for over 20 years......

Then he'd know.

How should he find out otherwise? From other Republicans? There's a fountain of reliable information--NOT!! LOL

[The Straight Story]

12. He says quite a bit on his web page about them - and it has a 'reagan' sound quality to it

The war on terror is not scaring people enough, so he needs to peddle more fear - and what better memory job for the righties than the russians?

[yellowcanine]

13. Because he, like many pubbies, long for a return to the Cold War era when they could flog Dems as

pinkos oblivious to the threat of the RED MENACE. Try as they will, the Muslim terra ists just don't measure up as a decent bogeyman.

[whistler162]

14. Yeah... personally I am more worried about the...

Austro-Hungarian or Ottoman empires than that upstart Soviet Union!

[Avalux]

15. He wants his base to think he's channeling Reagan.

Romney's utterances while in England were designed to give GOPers warm fuzzies, reminding them of their dearly beloved Reagan. Seriously.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

16. He's yesterday's man

[Ikonoklast]

17. He looks like Mr.1961, talks like him, too.

And a total idiot.