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Mitt Romney, the Leaked 47 Percent Video, and Contemptuous Conservatism
Tweet Share on Facebook September 18, 2012 CommentIn 2000, George W. Bush sought to put a kinder, gentler face on his party’s animating philosophy, which had developed a reputation as being harsh, uncaring, and uninterested in helping society’s most vulnerable. Bush campaigned for the presidency as a “compassionate conservative.” A dozen years later former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who publicly describes himself as “severely conservative,” filled in the details on what that means in a private, $50,000-per-plate Florida fundraiser in May. On a video publicized yesterday by Mother Jones, Romney says that the 47 percent of the country who don’t pay income tax are “victims” owed an “entitlement” from the government. The biggest defense he could be bother to mount last night at a hastily called press conference was that his comments were inelegantly phrased. But he stood behind the broader sentiments. Romney sounded forced when he self-described in February as severely conservative, but his private expression shows he’s a contemptuous conservative.
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Freedom of the Press Doesn't Justify Kate Middleton Topless Photos
Tweet Share on Facebook September 18, 2012 CommentTo journalists who have risked their own safety and life exercising the First Amendment and witnessed American military members putting themselves in even greater danger protecting it, there is little more annoying than watching a bunch of perverts and greed-heads piously invoking freedom of the press to justify their disgusting and pathetic behavior.
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Mitt Romney Is the Tin Woodman With No Heart
Tweet Share on Facebook September 18, 2012 CommentMitt Romney, now we know you after a lost seven days in September which you and Ann will look back on and forever rue by the fireplace in one of your vacation compounds.
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As Campaign Heats up, Kerry, McCain, Clinton Keep Their Cool
Tweet Share on Facebook September 17, 2012 CommentIn this era of unprecedented nastiness in campaigns, let us all celebrate the unsuccessful presidential candidate caucus.
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Use Social Media to Combat Terrorism
Tweet Share on Facebook September 15, 2012 CommentThe United States, which invented social media, is now at the mercy of physical attack inspired by social media. What will it take for us to get into this game?
Friday morning, my son had to join hordes of other college students in evacuating his university campus. The reason? A phoned-in bomb threat from someone purporting to be from al Qaeda.
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Romney's Right to Criticize Obama on Muslim Protests
Tweet Share on Facebook September 14, 2012 CommentIs it just me, or is it starting to feel like 1979 all over again? The rising gas prices, the mobs storming American embassies in the Middle East, the killing of an American ambassador, and an administration whose first response to this week's crisis in Libya was not to condemn the attackers, but to blame Americans who "abuse" their right of free speech. By Friday, the administration had made clear it was not in fact siding with the mobs, but the damage was done.
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Romney's Foreign Policy Would Play Into the Terrorists' Hands
Tweet Share on Facebook September 14, 2012 CommentThis, apparently, is the sum total of Mitt Romney's case for being better at foreign policy than Barack Obama: He's better at rattling sabers than the president is. And while in many ways that means the substance of Romney's would-be policy really isn't that different from Obama's, the stylistic differences are dangerous. To put it bluntly, the kind of swaggering, blustering foreign policy Romney and his neocon advisers favor plays right into the hands of the people who do things like attack and kill U.S. diplomats.
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Media Exploit Libya Tragedy to Boost Obama and Slam Romney
Tweet Share on Facebook September 14, 2012 CommentThe media narrative of the events in Libya and Egypt is, quite frankly, sickening.
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Behind Team Romney's Petty Name-Calling
Tweet Share on Facebook September 14, 2012 CommentIs President Obama a teenager, "feckless," or a reincarnation of former President Carter?
All three, according to his foes—or maybe just whichever one they manage to get to stick.
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Mitt Romney Has Turned This Election Into a Referendum on Himself
Tweet Share on Facebook September 13, 2012 CommentMitt Romney's strategy was to make this election a referendum on President Barack Obama, one in which voters unhappy with the struggling economy would vote out the incumbent. Obama sought to make this a "choice" election, presenting himself as the better pick.
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