Jan. 12, 2012
Many have emailed and called, and told me (as if I were Rick Perry himself), to give Mittens a break on free enterprise. I will, so this is my last attempt to get the point across. Obviously Mitt Romney is sewing up the nomination after only 350,000 voters in two out-of-the-way, blue states, Iowa and New Hampshire, have had their say.While I don't particularly care for her politics, Maureen Dowd is brilliant in describing what the stupid Republicans have bought themselves. The great battle for the future of this country is turning into an epic contest of Saul Alinsky versus Gordon Gekko. If you saw the movie Wall Street, you know that this probably won't turn out too well for the proponents of Gordon Gekko, the Republicans. Not even Goldman Sachs appreciates Gordon Gekko!
Regardless of from where the news of Romney's Bain Capital career comes from, it is what it is. There are some career fields that do not translate well into presidential campaigns. Among them are undertakers, tax collectors, Casey Anthony's defense attorneys, bill collectors, and CEOS of leveraged buyout firms.
When you think "independent voter," the image comes to mind of a younger, college-educated American who is carefully discerning to whom he or she will cast a vote. The image is that the independent voter is rugged and independent; the quintessential model of the American spirit as Alexis de Tocqueville chronicled so masterfully in Democracy in America.
But that's not the independent voter at all anymore. The independent voter's heritage of rugged individualism was ripped out from underneath him when Mitt Romney's ancestors tore the voter's great grandparents from the family farm, moved his families to the cities, and put them to work in the steel mill, or the factory. In doing so, the once rugged individualist American became more dependent upon the up and down swings of Gordon Gekko's fiat currency, and with it, the ever-ending booms and busts of the industrialized economy.
And so, as Franklin D. Roosevelt (and later, Clinton) proved, if a politician can feel your pain, they'll get the independent vote. With that in mind, consider for whom the independent voter goes when Saul Alinsky spends $1 billion in Goldman Sachs' money to unleash this, what is portrayed in the movie below, on Gordon Gekko, in the midst of a bust economy.
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