Politics Romney - Is he ready?

This is one of the many problems I have with Mitt. He seems to be willing to double down on many of the neo-cons agenda from the Bush years. And I'm not even sure it's him making the decisions. He seems rather comfortable in letting others take control of major policy issues. He's said whatever he's needed say to whatever group he's been speaking to to gain the upper hand in the election. Look at any speech he gave during the primaries then compare it to the things he said during the debate. People took big issue with his comments on his tax plan or plans (he seems to several conflicting plans that are completely dependent on his audience.) An issue that slapped me in the head was what he had to say about Simpson-Bowles. He's on all sides of this issue too, I guess. According to him in the debate parts of it were "a big wet kiss to Wall St." Not exactly what he's been telling his Wall St. fund raisers.

To me it's clear he wants to be President. Anything after that, after he gains that title, he's fine with whatever his team wants to do and what many on his team want is pretty scary.

 

the foreign policy advisors romney has assembled are genuinely unnerving. on that basis alone, i would expect significant political consequences globally for a romney victory. i may have said this before---but i expect people would assume that the united states had simply lost it's collective mind. this isn't to even start on the lunacy of the domestic agenda romney is touting---you can see by looking almost anywhere that neo-liberal thinking has only austerity as its solution for the crises that neo-liberalism implemented has triggered. and austerity is the simplest way to make an already tenuous-to-bad situation a whole lot worse.

what's odd about the sporting event they call the presidential race at the moment is the degree to which the right's attack on polling numbers that reflected the dogshit quality of the conservative brand has converged with the institutional interests of the dominant media apparatus in having a good sporting event to talk about. the result is that it's almost impossible to get much of any real sense of where things stand. i find it alarming that romney is a real option for anyone. it's a demonstration of the degree to which the existing political machinery and the vast amounts of capital it distributes can make of anyone---even someone as utterly unappealing as mitt romney---appear a viable candidate.

 

This is also why it's so difficult to debate Romney. I'll admit I didn't see this coming. Doesn't seem like Obama did either. How do you debate someone who simply says "that's not my position" anytime to try to point out one of his many, many, many vague positions? It's like he's giving a wink and nod to everyone. Pro-choice?, "yes of course." Pro-life?, "are kidding? Absolutely." Wall St. regulation? "Hate them... except the ones I like." Going to cut taxes on everyone?, "I keep saying that. But I'm going to work with congress (unlike Obama who worked against Congress, especially when the GOP went out of their way to work with him, wink, wink) to get rid of a bunch of deductions so it'll be "revenue neutral" so there's not going to be any "Fat Cat" tax cuts."

It's like trying to discuss the issues with a phantom.
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What is so different about your concerns and mine?

 

I remember our old "playground" rules. The guy who didn't get fucked with was the strong quiet guy who people thought might be just a bit nuts. People were very careful not to offend that guy, for fear that they did not know how he would respond combined with the knowledge that they knew that guy had the power to respond in a devastating manner. Life's most valued lessons are learned at a very young age. I don't expect pseudo-intellectuals to understand - must be nice to be sheltered.

 

only a fool would be impressed with neo-con dick-waving. what you have to leave out is--o i don't know---actual information about the world and the american role in it.
but we all know that the actually existing world is well down on your list of concerns.
and that you understand information about the actually existing world to be the stuff of "pseudo-intellectuals"
and you're impressed with neo-con dick-waving.
so run the equation.

 

It is more like gorilla chest thumping. There is a difference. Female gorillas do not engage in this behavior. for it is the chest thumping that leads to the dick...

 

I stand corrected. True any gorilla can thump their chest. My view of the concept is that if it is not being done to send a message of "don't fuck with me" it is not really what I would consider "chest thumping". But I agree with you.

Dick-waving is more about vanity. Like you said chest thumping is more about aggression. The most aggressive gorilla doesn't care about how big his dick is, he just wants to make sure he gets to use it. I have heard that size does not matter to female gorillas. However I have never had a need to discuss that issue with any female gorillas, have you?

 

I will say it again, I can't trust Romney. He has Bolton and Wolfowitz as his foreign policy advisers (and I understand that Cheney is also involved). If the US is going to stay engaged as they are, I would rather have Obama and his team than anything like Bolton or Wolfowitz (and believe me, I have issues with some of Obama's foreign policy decisions).