Posted on 03/02/2010 4:56:19 PM PST by Brices Crossroads
Wonk or as I call him a bean counter - they are a dime a
dozen.
We are at war and a person who sat out the Vietnam war, 2 years of which in Paris and not one of his 5 sons have
served in the military.
Sarah Palin has been involved in National Security, meetings with generals when Governor.
Sarah has been to the Middle East and Kosovo.
Sarah’s son recently returned from serving a year in Iraq.
Secretary of Treasury is 5th in line of presidential succession. No way in hell I want that liberal that close.
Thanks for pointing this out. I have seen her on Fox. I will be alert when she starts carrying water for Mittens.
Nina Easton’s husband was on Romney’s campaign staff in 2008. Also Nina Easton is friends with Nicole Wallace.
I’m not a Romney fan, but he is one hundred percent correct on populism. What has populism brought us? The French Revolution and the income tax. What has elitism created? The American Revolution and the atomic bomb. I rest my case.
“I’m not a Romney fan, but he is one hundred percent correct on populism.”
I don’t think you have a good grasp of the term populism and the loose definitions that are applied to it. There is such a thing as conservative populism, embodied in the Tea Party Movement, and that is who Romney is aiming his opprobrium at, using the loose definition of populism which conjures up all sorts of images for those who do not understand then term and how it means different things depending on the context.
Let’s start with the definition:
Populism is: “A political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged elite.”
Now what the elite is depends on the context. (BTW, I note that you credit the elite with the American Revolution and the A-Bomb; can we also credit them with World War I, which led inexorably to the Second World War and 70 years of Communist domination?)
The context: In the context of today, who are the elites to which the current conservative populists, the object of Romney’s scorn, are in opposition?
They are the government (which Mitt has kind words for in his book), the elite (lamestream)media, corporations (including Wall Street tycoons, Big Banks and other large conglomerates WHO ARE IN LEAGUE WITH THE GOVERNMENT and are the beneficiaries of large taxpayer financed bailouts and subsidies.
In essence, the salient thread of conservative populism is the Government and those nominally “private” entities who align with the government, and who benefit from government funding, and against the interests of the vast majority of the citizens, specifically the taxpayers.
If you want to educate yourself a little about conservative populism and indeed a history of populism in general, I link below to a fine article by Matthew Continetti in the Weekly Standard. He makes a persuasive case that there have been four discrete iterations of populism in American history: Jackson, Bryan, Reagan and Palin, the latter two of which are decidedly conservative. You might try reading a little more about terms as indistinct as “populism” before you jump to agreement with the likes of Mitt Romney.
The Palin Persuasion
A case for the new populism.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/180xvziz.asp
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