There is so much garbage in politics today that it’s a huge waste of energy for most of us to pay any attention. However occasionally there comes an event where we just cannot avert our eyes or plug our ears. This is one of them:
Whatever you think of politics, parties, or candidates, that has to be the most stupid utterance by any candidate trying to win votes. I predict it will be the first neutron triggering a dramatic chain reaction of events in Romney’s fall from grace. There is no doubt it was the first or second neutron with the crap about Obama siding with the enemy in the Middle East vying for first or second place. This neutron has the advantage in the election that he clearly shows disdain for the voters. Giving Obama a solid base while Romney’s erodes is suicidal or crazy.
Several smart people have stated that if you want people to think highly of you keep your mouth shut. Romney should heed that advice. Will any thoughtful person vote in November thinking Romney is a wise and thoughtful man?
Questions remain:
- Will the GOP recall their candidate before the election?
- Will their VP candidate become the presidential candidate?
- Will USA become a one-party state?
Sure, some of those questions are flippant but, really, is there any party remaining in the race except the Democrats?
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“Will any thoughtful person vote in November thinking Romney is a wise and thoughtful man?”
I find it ironic that you notice the negative impact blind faith and fandom has in politics, yet you can’t see the exact same thing in yourself when it comes to your software.
Were I able to vote in the American elections I would most certainly not be voting for Romney, but that’s based on his policy and his stance, not because he’s conservative and not because “he’s Mitt Romney”. Policy before party, and pragmatism before fanaticism.
Who was Romney talking to? Was it the “47% that don’t pay income tax” or was it a room full of people that can afford a $1,000 a plate dinner that don’t want to pay more taxes on their billion dollar enterprises?
One of those groups happens to be part of the Republican base.
Interestingly enough, the “47%” consists of many people who are retired and whose incomes do not exceed the thresholds for paying taxes since Social Security and other government retirement plans are not subject to income taxes. This happens to be the strongest segment for Romney since the majority of these folks are Republicans. He’s dissing his own base here and that is not wise.
These folks have their entitlements, certainly, but only due to decades of paying the payroll taxes for FICA and Medicare that gave them that entitlement. I’m in that roundup myself these days and I think that Romney had better get busy fixing his gaffes.
I think the “selective” fire switch on his assault rifle is stuck in full-auto. He seems to make a gaffe every week and they are getting bigger as the election grows closer. That does not seem to be a good indicator of “the leader of the free world”.
>>Will USA become a one-party state?<<
What do you mean will??? The USA has been a one party state for nearly its inception.. it is run by the corporate party
“I think the “selective” fire switch on his assault rifle is stuck in full-auto. He seems to make a gaffe every week and they are getting bigger as the election grows closer. That does not seem to be a good indicator of “the leader of the free world”.”
Couldn’t agree more. Hopefully it resonates with voters.
The irony is that most of those “47% not paying taxes” are living in Red States. Besides there are also some others “dependent on government” with billions of dollars. E.g military industry.
Now big question: is Romney turning his back to his own supporters?
If you have studied the history of Weimar Germany you would clearly see some interesting similarities with that Germany and USA of our days. In Weimar Germany Hitler was getting his support mostly from rural backward areas in eastern parts ( especially Prussia and small villages and towns). People living there believed easier all these fantasies and slogans of Nazi Party.
On the other hand, Nazi Party was much weaker in bigger cities like Hamburg, Berlin or Cologne. Where prosperity was really created people were not so much pro-Nazi.
In USA small towns, rural areas, backward the right-wing GOP has its most fanatic supporters. In California, New York, even in cities like Austin Texas people don’t not so much believe in these hatemongers.
Basically we all know what is the reason. It’s the beginning of the end of white privilege agenda. That’s why these haters are so scary. Let them crawl their road to the bitter dead end.
Comparing the Republican Party to Nazis only serves to radicalize yourself, Mats. They may be a party of corrupt and lying assholes, but they most certainly are not Nazis.
“They may be a party of corrupt and lying assholes, but they most certainly are not Nazis.”
It depends on what we think about Nazism. OK. Let’s say we have a certain problem in our hands called “American fascism”.
Mats Hagglund mentioned, “American fascism”.
I think that’s half the problem here. I was watching some US politics the other day when the superiority of US ingenuity was brought up as if the rest of the world owed them a living. The US imports a lot of brains last I checked and they want more. They want that because most of the ingenuity on Earth is not in USA.
USA has done a lot of really stupid innovations like:
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones and USA should not be self-congratulatory about being smart. Then they have the nerve to tell the world how the world should do things… Sigh. USA is the crashing bore at a party.
When I was young, it was true that USA had better technology and innovation than much of the world because people from all over the world were investing in USA and exporting brains there. The “brain-drain” was real. No longer. Now USA imports drug-dealers and prints money instead of manufacturing. There are exceptions like Lincoln Electric but the huge unemployment and lack of medical insurance and prolonged issues with the Middle East and Iraq and unsound federal budgets are entirely made-in-USA boondoggles.
The world can and does make its own IT and it’s often better than the default trash the USA would have us use. The world cooperatively creates GNU/Linux and FLOSS and the USA is one of the biggest users while telling the world it is “cancer” and “pirated” and “amateurish” etc.
Nice troll, Bob. It’s almost as if you believe Canada has no social problems.
@Ivan:
He wasn’t talking about Canada. Stop putting words in his mouth.