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“The populism I’m referring to is, if you will, demonizing certain members of society: going after businesspeople, going after Wall Street, going after people who are highly educated, people who are CEOs,’’ Romney said in an interview. “That kind of ‘All of our problems are due to that group’ is something that is unproductive.’’

He'll have to take that issue up with the democrats...that's their shtick.

Now if he's suggesting that conservatives should embrace non-conservatives as their representatives then he fails to grasp the point of elections and trying to choose someone to represent you.

Bingo! If Romney is going to make a charge like this, he has an obligation to name names. I read Palin's book, her biggest enemy was Exxon/Mobil. Exxon/Mobil was tied into the political elite and funded them, in return, they got special deals and sat on their hands not developing their oil reserves. Palin threatened to take the reserves away, as they hadn't exercised their rights to develop them.

After the new law Palin, pushed through, even the oil exec's admitted that it was a good deal for them and their going to develop the resources, build the natural gas pipeline and pay directly to Alaskans through the Alaskan Trust program.

The national GOP ought to look at this success, which put Palin up to 80%+ approval ratings.

I've thought for 20 years, that the number one target for the GOP ought to be special deals for big business. They ought to declare war on special deals, simplify the tax code, ie cut taxes in return for removing all of the subsidies. Attack Obama and the Democrats for being in bed with the BIG guys; Big Business, Big Labor, Big Lawyer and Big Bureaucracy. Root out the special deals...

Why do many working class people vote Democrat? I'd say, number one, they hate their bosses (at least resent them). They've identified the GOP with their bosses, therefore vote for wacko, anti-capitalist, environmentalist Democrats, who destroy their jobs. In 2000, I was in line waiting to vote, and two mechanic types from the nearby factory, talked about voting for Gore for this reason. They didn't know that Gore wrote the the internal combustion engine was going to destroy civilization. These guys worked in a business based on the internal combustion engine.

GOP FAIL. Why didn't they know about algore's views? Why? Bush was sympathetic to those views and didn't attack Gore for those views.