The bizarre thing was that Gingrich was defending capitalism as a productive economic system, but questioning Romney’s version of his business background. Romney was not in a productive business, the foundation of capitalism, but in a speculative financial business, which has its essential place but is a lot different from building a productive business, particularly since Romney seems to have gotten certain government breaks here and there along the line. Romney was trying to pretend that he was like his father, president of AMC, a captain of industry. However, even there he lied, because he said he decided not to “go into the auto plant like his father,” as if Daddy had been working on the line and not president of the company!
I never figured out whether Rush (a) misunderstood the message (which may not have been well presented; it was done by the PAC and not by Gingrich, although he approved it at a time when the consultants were telling him to be more aggressive and go on the attack) or (b) was just trying to be provocative, ala Neal Boortz. But whatever, it gave the liberal press and the GOP E talking points.
But leaving that aside, I don’t think it matters how many of us hold our noses and vote for Romney. I did that the last time around with McCain, and the problem is that it doesn’t work. There aren’t enough people who will vote for an imitation Dem (McCain/Romney) instead of a real Dem (Obama). The majority of the people - and there are more registered Dems than GOPers - will vote for the real Dem.
I have family members who can’t stand Obama because of his black power/Islamic nonsense and his obnoxious wife, but they’re going to vote for him because he’s got the unions in his pocket. Obama’s personal unpopularity is not going to matter. Unless we present an alternative to the Dems, people will vote for the real Dem instead of the imitation.
That said, I agree with you, I honestly don’t think the GOP has the guts or the brains to present an alternative to communism, whether soft communism or the harsher type (it will begin as the first and progress to the second).
I’m not feeling very hopeful, but I just gave another few bucks to the Gingrich campaign...newt.org...because I know that it’s not much, but I don’t want to feel that I didn’t try to do anything. I can’t believe so many people have just resigned themselves to letting our country be taken away and turned into almost the opposite of everything we have always held.
Seriously, this thought depresses me enormously every day.
Which is kind of hilarious because Eric Bolling just did that gas price special with Palin on FOX where his plan to bring down gas prices was to regulate speculation, make it more difficult and expensive for the financial people to speculate on oil contracts. Yet he was one of the guys claiming he was a rock-ribbed conservative who couldn't stand Newt's criticisms of "capitalism." Ah, but, in the course of the special, Bolling admitted that his suggestion would make it easier for the BIG Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs to speculate on oil contracts, and only block out the smaller firms. Just more evidence that the Republican party elites and their media arms FOX News, Drudge, Coulter, most of RINO radio, are solidly in the back pockets of big Wall Street money from the likes of Goldman Sachs. It's only "attacking capitalism" if it hurts the deepest pockets on Wall Street. If it hurts the smaller businesses, it's just smart regulation.