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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOuch. The American Conservative calls Mitt's speech "infantilizing"
"And then we have cutting regulations and taxes on small businesses, and repealing the ACA (repeal is somehow supposed to lower healthcare costs). Ill buy that actions to make our regulatory regime more efficient would have a positive economic impact. But a huge one? Big enough to pull us out of the biggest economic slump since the depression?
And thats the plan to generate 12 million new jobs. The mismatch between the scale of the challenge and the proposed solution is almost laughable.
Mitt Romney is a very smart guy, and a successful businessman. He knows the mismatch is laughable. So why doesnt he close the rhetorical gap? Dont just tell us that President Obama doesnt know how to end the economic crisis explain to us how you think we wound up in this mess (in 2008, before Obama took office) and what President Obama should have done and could still do to get us out of it.
But, quite plainly, Mitt Romney has no intention of saying anything that his audience doesnt want to hear, and what he thinks his audience wants to hear is that America is great, and the only reason everything isnt hunky dory is that we are led by a man who doesnt understand that America is great. So believe in Mitt Romney, who believes in America, and trust that he will do the right things to steer America toward brighter shores."
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/millman/an-infantilizing-speech/
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(90,347 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Questions that conservatives need to be asking themselves when pondering how this man got this far in the party.