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Mitt Romney

  • Class Wars of 2012 – NYTimes.com

    …The important thing to understand now is that while the election is over, the class war isn’t. The same people who bet big on Mr. Romney, and lost, are now trying to win by stealth — in the name of… Continue reading

  • 5 glaring contradictions that sank the GOP – Salon.com

    What Obama’s win, alongside surging Democratic senators, disrupted was the dubious marriage between billionaires dying to own the government and fundamentalists dying to institutionalize universal morality. This election exploded Reaganite propaganda that “big government” is the problem by spotlighting the… Continue reading

  • Two Presidents, Smoking and Scheming – NYTimes.com

    Mr. President, your prep for the next debate need not consist of anything more than learning to pronounce three words: “Governor, you’re lying.” via Two Presidents, Smoking and Scheming – NYTimes.com. Continue reading

  • The Fox News & the Hedgehog Syndrome

    It very well could be that I am drawing a hasty generalization. But I have been watching politics closely for 30 years. Since the 1996 campaign, I have seen an interesting phenomenon: Democrats spent a lot of time trying to… Continue reading

  • Makers & Takers: More of the Long Con

    A lot of my “everyday” existential philosophizing takes the form of asking people to be aware of the Long Con or the Big Sting… that is where you become your own mark in the long con game of bad faith… Continue reading

  • The Corporate Capitalist Gamble: American’s will “venture” for Mitt

    Romney’s suggestion that only business owners should occupy the White House was hardly surprising; it just reinforced the reverence for builders of small businesses manifested in the Republican gathering in Tampa. But it is a curious claim nonetheless. For most… Continue reading

  • An Empty Chair, Dirty Harry, and Moses

    I watched what little bit of Clint Eastwood’s RNC improv that I could. I was incredibly embarrassed for the man. As Obama says, a good actor & a great director. But also kind of a weird choice to be introducing Mitt… Continue reading

  • Chasing the swing vote – Salon.com

    This year’s Republican Convention wins the prize for most conflicted message. Half the time, the convention was devoted to assuring those elusive swing voters — who needed assurance that Republicans really aren’t all angry old white men who hate women… Continue reading

  • Paul Ryan: 2012 Candidate for Vice President – Esquire

    Paul Ryan is an authentically dangerous zealot. He does not want to reform entitlements. He wants to eliminate them. He wants to eliminate them because he doesn’t believe they are a legitimate function of government. He is a smiling, aw-shucks… Continue reading