I’ve seen way too many hit pieces against Romney from Jonah Goldberg lately.
He must be angling for a job at CNN.
That was a very good read.
1) According to polls this is true.
What Romney did not say was these are the same 47% who currently pay no income taxes.
Romney was making a different although similar point. The media, who for years have failed to report the numbers concerning who pays income tax and connected the dots on a point that Romney was not making.
If only he would. The point is this exchange shows two things:
1) That 47% of the nation profit from the fruit of another man'd labor; 2) Thr media normally hides this fact but will bring it out if they thank they thank it will hurt the GOP.
Romney was NOT giving a speech in public or for public consumption. He was speaking to a group of PRIVATE donors. It is against the law to tape record anyone without their consent. But law breaking which favors the lefty liberals is never questioned by the MSM.
What Romney was, in a way, talking about is the Alinsky formulation that Obama adhered to and still does. Make middle class people think they’re victims of “the rich” if you want to bring about socialist revolution, because there aren’t enough poor people in the U.S. to do it.
Notice that Romney didn’t say they really are victims, but that they have been made to feel as if they are.
Bottomline: Obama needs to answer questions about why so many people are so poor in his economy that they can’t pay income taxes.
I don’t know, Jonah. Seems to me a lot of people are praying for an Obama victory. I don’t know how anyone can hang in there, working as hard as Romney does, shooting as straight as he does, and have his own constantly nipping at his heels. That goes for Mark Levin too...but of course Mark just does it on a daily basis to make Mitt a better candidate....even though he’s flawed and all. It stinks. Ronald Reagan would not have approved of speaking ill of your fellow Republican. Whatever, if we lose, we can just crank up that patriotic music, write stinging articles and sell books.
What would inspire a majority to vote for him and turn from Obama, would make his “citizens of the world” financial backers and the National socialists scream bloody murder. It's too American. He'd be embarrassed. It's something Reagan believed in and could convey. Liberals used to call it America's civil religion. Romney rejected Reagan.
Seeing himself as an international business man cutting deals, he's lacking an anchor in America's founding and Western cultural ideals because he's not interested in all that. He does what he has to do socially operate within his little Mormon church leadership and globalist limo liberal business circle to cut the deals.
His peers are into global warming (huge “investment” money from governments and power), population control, no standards of character - politically correct liberalism, and global economic power and gain. They look at the “masses” as widgets to ignore, manipulate and get around. Ann probably is the human being of the two and I'm not sure she steps outside the circle's international and social ideology.
It appears that they are a stable couple and family and that has been conveyed pretty well.
I don't see how that could be fixed. He's just doesn't believe in all that podunk “nationalistic” freedom ideology crap. He's so much more worldly, bigger and progressive than that. All who are going to screech now that I want Dear Reader to stay in power, screw you ahead of time. This is the problem we face with Romney and I don't pretend real well.
Jonah is the one way over analyzing what was a perfectly sensible comment by Romney.
Romney, and Team Romney (which may or may not be the same thing) decided a LONG time ago that a frontal assault on Obama (character, origins, belief system) would lose those precious “independents” and that women would think he was “mean”.
They have pinned their hopes on “nice guy, swell dad, not up to the job”.
In order to win the right to deploy this strategy, they had to DESTROY Gingrich, Bachmann, Cain, and Santorum, and make sure Our Lady of Wasilla stayed out. OK, they won, they have the right to play their game their way.
We reviewed, endlessly, why this was a strategy of failure in the Winter and Spring. Nothing any of us said about this then matters now. After November 7, if the only strategy that could possibly lose this election in fact results in defeat, there will be time - four long years, in fact, if not (God forbid) more - to purge the GOP or crush it under the wheels of a legitimate party.
Now is not the time. My Romney signs are up. My donations are in. I’m selling as hard as I can, every time I get the chance.
Between now and November 6, with regard to Team Romney, give peace a chance.