OK, so Mittens exposed himself in public this week.
So, we know where he stands in the fight between people and our corporate overlords, right?
By the way, doesn't that statement sound awfully familiar?
Yeah, somebody else got that idea, too.
And then there's this post.
Now, we need to keep this quote out there in front of people (yeah, it's sad when Mitt Romney looks like a reasonable candidate, but look at the rest of the field...), but I suppose we should think about things carefully, though.
How long before a meme just gets worn out? Will this one stick to Romney's shoe like a 4' piece of errant toilet paper? (Anybody remember the Howard Dean Scream?) Or will this one just get old and stale before the 2012 elections?
Just spitballin' here.
Let's hope he wins the GOP nomination and the Dems are able to make an issue of it... but, who knows... I feel with all the money President Obama had to run his campaign that he is in bed with
ReplyDeleteWall Street as well as big business...
That's one of the problems with politics as they currently exist. Too much money is needed to run a campaign, so the only people who end up in office are millionaires, who really don't understand the problems of those of us down here at the bottom.
ReplyDeleteAnd, needing all that money, they go to Wall Street, Big Business, and every other source of capital, and promise to represent their interests. And in order to keep the money rolling in, they have to keep pandering.
It's all about the ducats, my friend.
Nameless,
ReplyDeleteOne would hope that such a comment might stick to the very expensive shoe of Mitt Romney, but who knows? I suspect that the Democrats will find SOME way to say almost exactly the same thing -- you know, just to neutralize any possible advantage they might have gained from an unbelievably inept remark on their opponents' part. Same way the president managed to let it be known how willing he might be to make cuts to Medicare just when we thought we had clear sailing to use the Republicans' Scrooge-like agenda (aka the Ryan Budget plan) against them....
Yes, most of the GOP candidates are wingnuttish, which is good, but I suspect Romney still takes the nomination. The danger I think he presents in the general election is that he might be able to draw to him those 20- and 30-something, perpetually naive "Independent" voters, the ones who loftily reject both parties based on facile caricatures of their respective philosophies, and who keep insisting with a false air of Solon-wisdom that both parties ought to "come together and compromise for the good of the people." There are millions of those kinds of voters (though I don't mean to imply that ALL so-called Independents are similarly clueless), many of whom are -- of course -- disenchanted with President Obama already. I guess he hasn't "compromised" enough to keep them happy....