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Mitt Romney, a safe choice for risky times (the reassuring center)
Washington Post ^ | September 19, 2011 | Michael Gerson

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conservatism; economy; mormon; perry2012; slickmitt; teaparty
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Perry’s specific economic policies remain defiantly unspecific, but his rhetoric and intentions are ideologically ambitious.

Gov. Rick Perry: Government needs to get out of the way so an investor will invest knowing he can get a fair return on his money.

This is how you "create" jobs -- you create an environment that is friendly to employers!

FIRST: "Don't spend all the money!"

SECOND: "Have a fair and predictable tax and regulatory policy!"

THIRD: "Have a legal system that doesn't allow for over suing. And make loser pay!"

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It's time to bring overseas profits back home to the United States!

Profits earned overseas are taxed so high U.S. companies will not reinvest that money here.

That money would find a favorable tax and regulatory climate under a Perry presidency.

1 posted on 09/20/2011 5:05:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: All; shield

I do believe the "establishment" is worried about Gov. Rick Perry's popularity and about Mitt's slip in the polls.

2 posted on 09/20/2011 5:08:45 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; justiceseeker93; neverdem; ...

If Mitt Romney is the nominee, they should legalize certain drugs or at least allow alcoholic beverages at polling places, because I’ll need a major buzz to be able to vote for him.


3 posted on 09/20/2011 5:10:26 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens collect welfare checks that Americans won't collect)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

FORGET IT! If Roooommmnie is the RINO choice, I will not vote for him. I have never missed voting for president in my voting life. But, I am FINISHED voting for the lesser of two evils. Voting for evil is voting for evil and I am done. McCain did it for me. I am done doing it. Either it is a decent candidate or I simply will pass. Don’t hand me that the other guy wins if I don’t vote. I don’t care. At some point you have to be able to live with yourself and the choices you make in life. This is a choice. I am finished making bad choices in voting for liberal RINOs. I repeat, McCain did it for me. Either give me a decent candidate or I ain’t voting for the bums.


4 posted on 09/20/2011 5:14:03 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (EVERY knee shall bow and EVERY mouth shall say: Jesus Christ IS LORD!!!!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I think it is very likely that Romney will be the Republican nominee, and, if he is, I expect him to finish third.


5 posted on 09/20/2011 5:14:12 AM PDT by Jim Noble (To live peacefully with credit-based consumption and fiat money, men would have to be angels.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Alway run the other way when the Post oks it.


6 posted on 09/20/2011 5:14:12 AM PDT by bestintxas (Somewhere in Kenya, a Village is missing its Idiot.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“Mitt Romney ... Not quite as socialist as Obama! And better hair!”

Yeah, that’ll work.


7 posted on 09/20/2011 5:14:59 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Oh, what's the point?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Haven’t they figured out yet that the American people are most definitely sick and tired of the STATUS QUO?


8 posted on 09/20/2011 5:15:55 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

NO more RINOs,
NO Mitt


9 posted on 09/20/2011 5:24:25 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Majo)
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To: Clintonfatigued

You have a better chance of my putting my pecker in a pencil sharpener than voting for Slick Willard...

...OR Captain Gardasil.


10 posted on 09/20/2011 5:26:03 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Rick Perry has more red flags than a May Day Parade)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

>>> I do believe the “establishment” is worried about Gov. Rick Perry’s popularity

I note as Bachmann fades her support is switching to Romney. That’s not particularly “establishment”. Perry remains ahead but it’s a competitive race.


11 posted on 09/20/2011 5:26:17 AM PDT by tlb
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To: Clintonfatigued

If Milt’s the nominee, the TP and what’s left of the Republican Party should look to align with the Libertarian Party and make the POTUS race a 3 way one, sort of like the FL US Senate race of Rubio, GayChazz and the Rat.

Obama’s weak enough that he still might lose a 3 way race.


12 posted on 09/20/2011 5:27:01 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Why?)
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To: RetiredArmy

I agree. What we need to do then is make sure we get the person we want elected through the primaries. What I don’t get is, why was being a Mormon such abig issue last time around but “crickets” this time a round?

That tells me that if they can’t have BO they would like to someone who tries to play both sides of the fence. Romney must be shot down.


13 posted on 09/20/2011 5:30:11 AM PDT by bbernard
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To: RetiredArmy

Grow up. Romney is bad, but not nearly as bad as Obama.


14 posted on 09/20/2011 5:31:04 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: The flash mob who wonÂ’t leave.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Milt McLefty? They’re kidding, right? How does a creep who signs a Nazi-state mandate to force people to buy stuff or subject themselves to questionable chemical injections get to be considered a serious candidate? This is a nightmare.


15 posted on 09/20/2011 5:31:53 AM PDT by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: SumProVita

“...Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), who is helping to set up the the Hill meeting for Perry, is serving as an economic adviser to the campaign. He said Perry plans to make House Republicans’ signature Cut, Cap and Balance approach to the budget this year “a centerpiece of his platform.” Mulvaney added that he hopes to help “put some meat on that bone.”.....Perry’s campaign has drawn the support of Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (Mo.) and Mike McCaul (Texas).

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63886.html#ixzz1YUitoFiL


16 posted on 09/20/2011 5:32:07 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I'm not making a "mccain" choice again. I'll sit something like that out.

Sometimes you have to resign yourself to rebuilding from ashes. This may be one of those occasions.

17 posted on 09/20/2011 5:34:11 AM PDT by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I don`t share the intense and, to me, puzzling hatred for Romney. He was my governor and he did some things I didn`t like, but folks here don`t seem to understand what led to Romneycare [and I`m done discussing it--no point]. I didn`t care that he didn`t run again because I didn`t think he did a great job, or COULD, in this democratic state.

The thing is, unless he is the nominee against Obama [in which case I will, of course, vote for him], I just can`t find a reason to support him. No hate, no real anger--I simply can`t think of any reason to support him.

18 posted on 09/20/2011 5:35:07 AM PDT by Darkwolf377
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To: Clintonfatigued

Wouldn’t the DBM just love for Romney to be the nominee? And if he is, the long knives will come out like nothing we’ve ever seen before. They would hit the Mormon issue very hard. They started on that angle before Perry got into the race. They pulled back because they didn’t want Mitt to be damaged so much that he can’t win the nomination.

They’ve pretty much thrown the kitchen sink at Perry in the past month and he’s still standing.

I would vote for Romney in the general, but never in the primary. By the time it gets to my state (PA), it’s decided anyhow so I wouldn’t have to.


19 posted on 09/20/2011 5:40:37 AM PDT by randita (Obama - chains you can bereave in.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
In Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, we have undiluted representatives of each type.


20 posted on 09/20/2011 5:42:47 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." Richard Feynman father of Quantum Physics)
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