Posted on 09/20/2011 5:05:28 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Many Americans are still picking through the wreckage of overturned mortgages and lost jobs, trying to rescue old pictures of their middle-class aspirations. But another economic tropical storm is now being tracked.
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Few believe that President Obama would be able to rally the world during a euro zone crisis, especially since he is increasingly irrelevant to the politics of his own country. His American Jobs Act — combining minimal ambition and minimal creativity — was greeted with bipartisan skepticism. Obama has repeatedly demanded that Congress “act now.” In response, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) has effectively told the president to get in line for the Senate’s “next work period” in October.
In this atmosphere of mounting challenge and diminished leadership, economists have lowered their predictions of future economic growth and now see a 1-in-3 chance that America will slip back into recession during the next 12 months.
With the arrival of a second economic crisis, America would enter a new phase. Our politics would pass beyond Tea Party anger toward a more generalized economic fear — the fear of durable stagnation and national decline. And this raises a large political question: Would an economic crisis favor a revolutionary candidate or a reassuring candidate?
In Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, we have undiluted representatives of each type. Perry is purposely provocative in style and content. He questions the legitimacy of 70 years of federal entitlement commitments. He proposes a fundamental reordering of the relationship between the federal government and the states. He is highly critical of the Federal Reserve and its chairman. Perry’s specific economic policies remain defiantly unspecific, but his rhetoric and intentions are ideologically ambitious.
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Center of what?
Nazi-state ... lol. Yeah, that Texas sure is the next coming of the Reich....
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If she helps Romney get the nomination, there is probably something in it for her. Romney is paying off Pawlenty's debt. Romney needs Bachmann as much as Bachmann needs Romney. They both are sellouts.
Center of Perry and Obama. Now, if we only had someone on the Right to support...
No amount of drugs or alcohol will induce me to vote for Romney.
Liberals admire Mitt for his supple spine.
Mitt Romney: pretending to be a Republican.
Mitt Romney—and Perry—safe votes for demrats.
It’s the Democrats’ Plan C.
If Obama cannot get re-elected, and if neither Hillary nor anyone else wants to take him on for Plan B, manipulate the GOP into nominating Romney. Then have Obama spend is remaining time in office pushing us as far and as fast to the left as possible, confident in the knowledge that Mitt will do little if anything to reverse it.
Last time we went “safe” we lost to a moron. Not THIS time!
>>> There are two possible reasons for Bachmann to be helping Romney...
Other then each has a common need to knock Perry down to have a shot at the nomination I am not seeing the coordination you imply. In any event I referenced the supporters on their own fading away from Bachmann and towards Romney. If she told them to do this I haven’t heard of it.
As illustrated by the Bachmann supporter exodus Romney as the great bogeyman doesn’t seem to exist outside a narrow and probably not particularly vital slice of the tea party. As best I can see it for those who get most hysterical over Romney, they only have the Perry option. Anything else they do is a vote for Romney, either directly or indirectly. Not that this has generally sunk in yet.
Bachmann attacks Perry—not Romney. It is clear she would rather harm Perry.
Note to Washington Post, you are NOT the center. The Tea Party is the center. You people at the Post are way over on the Left.
Romney is Bush-lite, and I mean George H.W. Bush, the New England patrician who keeps an apartment in Houston so he can avoid paying state income tax. Bush went pro-life to get the VP slot, but I doubt he meant it. That’s why his wife, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren are out there proclaiming that they are pro-choice, pro-gay, and whatever else the upper crust is for, and hinting broadly that their menfolk are just pretending to go along with the yahoos in the Pro-life movement. But our family is on the right side in the cultural wars.
Perry takes votes away from her. Romney does not.
Obamacare / Romneycare -- both yucking it up for screwing over their constituents.
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