Last night's debate saw the debut of the new, new, new Mitt Romney. The one who's reasonable and forceful, and isn't going to going to lower taxes on the wealthy, but is going to implement a generic but unspecified plan to make everything wonderful.
Not the new, new Mitt Romney from last summer, who scoffs at those losers in the 47% with his billionaire buds and has a horse in the equestrian competition at the Olympics.
And yet still not the new Mitt Romney, who ran for governor of Massachusetts, the one who supports abortion rights and health care for all.
And certainly not the old Mitt Romney, the one who closed steel mills, fired employees, took away their health care and let their wives die of cancer.
The new, new, new Mitt Romney doesn't seem to be a bad guy. The problem is, if you elect the new, new, new Mitt Romney, you won't get the new, new, new Mitt Romney. You'll get Todd Akin, Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, John Boehner, Sheldon Adelson, the Koch brothers, Grover Norquist and all the rest of the Republican Party. The same Republican Party that still wants to reduce corporate and capital gains taxes to zero, voucherize Medicare, make abortion and birth control all but impossible to get, invade every country in the Middle East where protesters burn American flags, and who thinks Bibi Netanyahu should be appointed Secretary of State.
If we had the Republican Party that we had 25 or 30 years ago, you could vote for the new, new, new Mitt Romney with a clear conscience. There were plenty of reasonable people in the Republican Party. But now Grover Norquist and rabid Tea Party ideologues have driven them all out of politics like they did to Dick Lugar (Dick Lugar!).
If the new, new, new Mitt Romney is elected, he will simply shake the Etch a Sketch yet again, and the new, new, new, new Mitt Romney will tell us that he never promised us all those things he said in the debate. He'll say he was just spitballing in front of investors, and now that all the financial details have been worked out it seems that the new, new Mitt Romney who sneered at the 47% was right all along.
Keep rationalizing boys. Busy at work here.
ReplyDelete>Mitt Romney, the one who closed steel mills, fired employees, took away their health care and let their wives die of cancer.
So GST Steel went bankrupt in 2001 under the management of Bain Capital. Too bad that's not the whole story. 44 Steel companies went under during that time period including...
Sheffield Steel, December 12, 2001
Wellington Industries, December 12, 2001
Rebar Fabricators Inc., December 12, 2001
Bethlehem Steel, October 15, 2001
Wilhelm and Kruse, Inc., October 2001
Edgewater Steel, August 6, 2001
Laclede Steel, July 27, 2001
Precision Specialty Steel, July 16, 2001
Republican Technologies International, April 2, 2001
Trico Steel, March 27, 2001
Heartland Steel, January 24, 2001
CSC Ltd., January 12, 2001
LTV Corp, December 29, 2000
Erie Forge and Steel, December 22, 2000
Northwestern Steel and Wire, December 19, 2000
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel, November 16, 2000
Vision Metals Inc., November 13, 2000
J&L Structural Steel, June 30, 2000
Think there were industry factors other than Mitt Romney and Bain blk? Guess not. Thanks for providing half the story on that one.
I can't believe you bothered to provide facts, Last. Clearly, facts are not part of this argument. Sound bites, cliches, hyperbole, and statistical fabrications are what is needed here.
ReplyDeleteNot your pesky facts.
"Bibi Netanyahu should be appointed Secretary of State"
So now you hate Jews as much as you hate niggers and spics, Nikto?
You racist fuck.