I have only recently come to appreciate what an utterly perfect candidate Mitt Romney is for the Republican Party.
Born to riches, he acquired gobs more money over his lifetime, not by creating something that people needed, or performing some worthwhile service, but by using money to make money in ways that are mysterious to mere laymen. He was called a “vulture capitalist” and a “vampire capitalist” by his Republican adversaries (now allies). He ruthlessly exploited vulnerable companies with the sole goal of making more money.
Yet he combines this merciless venality with a squeaky clean, über Mormon lifestyle. And movie star presidential looks. And an apparent lack of core convictions.
Far from sharing the proverbial beer with Mitt, one cannot imagine sharing a cup of coffee with him. A piece of white bread and a glass of milk, maybe.
Somehow he seems the very incarnation of the GOP: bourgeois morality cloaking a single-minded greed. Throw in his obliviousness to the plight of the poor (he says he doesn’t worry about them, remember?) and to workers, his hostility to labor unions and his hawkishness on foreign policy and you have the very embodiment of the Republican Party.
Really, the Perfect Candidate. He would be the richest, whitest president ever, and that is saying something.
As I’ve said before, EVERY PRESIDENT IN MY LIFETIME has been worse than the one before, and Obama, bad as he is, is nowhere close to the bottom.
wait. Is he allowed to drink coffee?
nope – root beer is a definite maybe
To be fair, while Romney doesn’t worry about the poor, he also said he doesn’t worry about the rich either. See. Fair & Balanced.
Technically, not quite the richest president ever. Washington holds that record; see http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-01-28/romney-richest-presidents/52838148/1 .
Well, technically he probably isn’t the whitest president, either. It would be hard to outwhite some of those guys…
While I first agreed with you on this- this article changed my mind a bit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/opinion/brooks-the-wealth-issue.html
It raised him up from “spoiled rich kid financial con artist” to “hard working persistent financial con artist”. It’s his chosen profession as a vulture capitalist that really built the wealth, and in keeping with his family history, he’s very hard working and good at it.
P.S.- this in no way changes my opinion of the entire bloody usury “make your money work for you” industry as nothing more than a den of thieves. But at least by the rules of our regulated capitalism in the United States, Mitt and his ancestors not only came by their money honestly, they had it ripped away from them by religious prejudice and by being too obedient to their religion several times. I find it interesting that Mitt’s father George was 5 years old when the same events that are depicted in _For Greater Glory_ not only killed priests, but also kicked all the Mormons out of Mexico. Atheism apparently knows no bounds on their bigotry.
Well it appears now that Ron Paul was really just a pawn for Romney all along. He attacked the other candidates 39 times and never attacked Romney. He also recently voted against a measure that would prohibt gender selective abortion.
Are you going to have ten posts vetting Paul like you did Santorum (I am not a Santorum supporter) and his very clear connections to dissenters like Tom Woods and his philosophical influences such as Ludwig Von Mises?
I have clearly stated my opposition to Paul’s economic policies more than once. As he has assumed the position of an eccentric rather than a serious candidate I don’t see any reason to dwell further on him.
But you can expect a good bit of criticism of Romney and Obama.