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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEJ Dionne: Romney the product
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-dionne-jr-unlikable-policies-force-romney-to-keep-flip-flopping/2012/10/14/179cfcfe-1633-11e2-9855-71f2b202721b_story.htmlAs he tries to engineer a comeback in this weeks presidential debate, President Obama needs to recognize two things. First, when it comes to politics, Mitt Romney treats himself as a product, not a person. Second, Republicans cannot defend their proposals in terms that are acceptable to a majority of voters.
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But theres an underlying reason for Romneys shape-shifting. Its the same reason Rep. Paul Ryan always resorts to impressive-sounding budget speak and mathematical gobbledygook to evade explaining the impact of his budgets on actual human beings.
Romney, Ryan and the entire right know that their most deeply held belief the one on which they wont compromise is rejected by the vast majority of Americans. Thats their faith that every problem in the economy and in society can be solved by throwing more money at rich people through tax cuts.
Vice President Biden kept Ryan on the defensive during most of Thursday nights debate precisely because he refused to let anything distract him from driving this central point home. Without pause and without mercy, Biden kept bringing viewers back to the obsession of the current Republican Party with taking care of only the very wealthy.
Obama doesnt have to look angry or agitated in this weeks debate. He simply needs to invite voters to see that Romney, the product, will give them no clue as to what Romney, the person, might do as president. Romney keeps changing the packaging because he knows that the policies inside the box are not what voters are looking for.
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EJ Dionne: Romney the product (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Oct 2012
OP
You can bank on Myth wanting to give our treasury the old Bain treatment
phasma ex machina
Oct 2012
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LisaL
(44,973 posts)1. A shape shifting product, at that.
theKed
(1,235 posts)4. And not even a new one
Etch-A-Sketch has been around for decades.
chillfactor
(7,576 posts)2. should be an interesting town hall meeting....
since neither party wants Candy Crowley there....
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)3. Voters = Consumers
very interesting.. if you think of a product for sale on the market,
and the creative ways it is advertised, often differently in
different parts of the country or world, in order to appeal
to native instincts and local culture.
The author may be right that Romney thinks of himself
and his politics that way.. He's running for President
for pete's sake, this product is so important, it needs to be
advertised any and every whichaway, just to get consumers
to buy it -- not that it's any good, or something they need.
And we all know most advertising is lies.
Blue Owl
(50,386 posts)5. Does that make Ryan the by-product?
n/t
phasma ex machina
(2,328 posts)7. I though he was more waste product than anything.
phasma ex machina
(2,328 posts)6. You can bank on Myth wanting to give our treasury the old Bain treatment
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)8. The new and improved BushCo: now even richer and nuttier