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kpete

(71,898 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 11:54 AM Sep 2012

EX-BUSH AIDE: How can anyone support a candidate with this kind of a vision of the country?

Mark McKinnon on Why Time Is Running Out for Mitt Romney
Sep 19, 2012 4:45 AM EDT
Ex-Bush aide Mark McKinnon keeps waiting for Romney to turn his campaign around and show the right stuff. After the 47 percent tape, he’s not sure that moment will ever come.



Well, the release of the Romney tape was a moment that certainly revealed something about him. But not what I was hoping for. Just the opposite. It reveals a deeply cynical man, who sees the country as completely divided, as two completely different sets of people, and who would likely govern in a way that would only further divide us.

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How can anyone support a candidate with this kind of a vision of the country? Isn’t a divided America under Obama what folks on the right rail against?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/19/mark-mckinnon-on-why-time-is-running-out-for-mitt-romney.html

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EX-BUSH AIDE: How can anyone support a candidate with this kind of a vision of the country? (Original Post) kpete Sep 2012 OP
Even George Bush pretended to care nichomachus Sep 2012 #1
I don't believe for one second... CoffeeCat Sep 2012 #2

nichomachus

(12,754 posts)
1. Even George Bush pretended to care
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 11:57 AM
Sep 2012

The Romney approach is the logical extension of Sarah Palin's division of the country into "real Americans" and everyone who wouldn't vote for her.

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
2. I don't believe for one second...
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 01:00 PM
Sep 2012

...that fellow Republicans are shocked and unaware that this is how Republicans speak. Come on!

Their policies strip money away from elderly citizens who have no income and need help with their heating bills. These are the people who have convinced half of America that national healthcare is Marxist--just to help their cocktail-circuit friends who are healthcare executives. These people are also in the process of demonizing teachers to hand over our educational system to private businesses--and also the people who deny global climate change in order to further enrich the oil companies.

Really now.

We're supposed to believe that ANY Republican is shocked that Mitt Romney would speak this way? Hardly.

If anything, this "faux defection" demonstrates that NO ONE wants to be associated with Mitt Romney. The rats are leaving the sinking ship. No one wants to be attached to the disaster that is Mitt Romney or his campaign. That's the takeaway from this article--that these guys really are all about self interest and saving their own butts--and they certainly don't want to hitch their wagon to a meteor that is careening toward massive implosion.

Just imagine how Paul Ryan feels. He was known to a very small audience--mainly conservatives. Now, everyone will always associate him with Romney and this train-wreck campaign.

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