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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Rugged individualism" is "nothing but a political banner to cover up greed" -George Romney
(George Romney was Mitt's dad)
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In the video above, today's Romney insists there is no reason to question the distribution of wealth in America except for envy of the rich did his rich dad question the distribution of wealth in America out of envy for the rich? and that it was a subject only appropriate for discussion in "quiet rooms." (His dad didn't talk about it in quiet rooms; he talked about it at a Sunday worship service at the 1972 Republican convention, praying, "Help us to help those who need help." Even if Mitt Romney is not the most right-wing candidate for the nomination, when he wins it, in a Republican Party becoming more extreme with every passing day, he may still be because the party wont have it any other way the most right-wing nominee in the history of the country.
It wasn't that way at first, of course. Four years ago, Romney announced his presidential candidacy anyone remember? in front of a state-of-the-art hybrid car. Positioning himself as an ecology president, he boasted about his father "The Rambler automobile he championed was the first American car designed and marketed for economy and mileage" and pointed to the car next beside him as "the first giant step away from our reliance on the gasoline engine."
Now, of course, he's a global warming denier. Little Willard is all grown up now. He's his own man. And he's the the likely Republican nominee. Which now means he's Wall Street's man. And Focus on the Family's, and the Tea Party's, and Grover Norquist's too.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/what-mitt-romney-learned-from-his-dad-20120117
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)He uses that line all the time.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)...does Rush really know anything?
existentialist
(2,190 posts)need to know anything when he can make it up as he goes along?
joycejnr
(326 posts)...Not since 1800 have Conservatives broadcasted their true beliefs (after Adams did it and got trounced, Conservatives lay low). What George did was nothing but a traitorous act against one of the fantasies of the GOP - excusing the greed of the wealthy leadership by proclaiming that rugged individualism can make one as rich as they are.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)They have to lie to get elected - otherwise no one would vote for their greedy asses. They have it down to a science. And when lies won't cover it, they resort to voter suppression. It's disgusting. It's pathetic. Unfortunately, sometimes it works, too.
rsweets
(307 posts)usually are grounded... it's the kids with too much time on their
hands that usually get into the mine,mine,mine mentality.
Sam Walton used to treat his people well ... day care etc... not that
he was any saint but compared to his kids .......
the bushes make my point for the idiot children.
of course that was 3rd generation ...
you know were I'm going here.
ryan_cats
(2,061 posts)Rugged individualism sounds like something Ayn Rand would say about one of her one dimensional characters.