Ben Stein: REPUBLICAN Nabob Of Negativism Sez Romney 'Losing Candidate'

[Vogon_Glory]

OP's note: having seen all those "we're doomed" threads posted by various pessimistic DU'ers, I found it very heartening (and rather entertaining) to discover that there are more than a few people in GOP country who aren't too sure about R-money's chances.

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"[Romney] has all around him the look of a losing candidate," the economist and actor said Thursday on Tavis Smiley's PBS program.

Stein, who made waves in May for saying he doesn't think President Obama is a very smart man, said the chief reason for the GOP nominee's woes is his lack of a strategy for economic recovery.

"Mr. Romney does not have a plan to turn things around. All he's saying, and correctly so, is that Mr. Obama said he had a plan that would work and it didn't," Stein said. "But does Mr. Romney have a better plan? If he does, we haven't seen it."



http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/08/ben-stein-romneys-a-losing-candidate-133987.html?hp=l7

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Ya know, we Democrats might pull off a victory after all.

[louis-t]

1. I watched this with my jaw hanging down.

He also said that trickle down doesn't work, and that rich people need to pay more taxes. He said good economic times came when taxes were high and bad times came when taxes were low.
That half of his brain works right.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. Of course, he'd be labeled a RINO if he stood by his remarks n/t

Of course Stein would be labeled a RINO and canned from any Republican Party position if he stood by his remarks. Tea-publican ideological purity enforcers are beginning to get as bad as those of some of the old Marxist-Leninist parties.

[russspeakeasy]

4. Goodbye faux gig.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. He's right you know.

The best most Republicans can say about Romney is he's not Obama.

[randome]

5. You know what they say. "When you've lost Ben Stein, you've..."

Nah. I got nothin'.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

6. I just read his remarks and I agree with him

I am no particular fan of Obama, but he is miles ahead of Romney. And if Romney thinks "Vote for me because I'm not Obama" is a winning strategy, he is simply delusional.

[sadbear]

7. "the GOP nominee's woes is his lack of a strategy for economic recovery."

Buy Ben, I thought ALL republicans, even yourself, believe that tax cuts for the wealthy is the ONLY strategy for economic recovery. Is Mitt not saying this enough for you?

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

8. Ben Stein may be a conservative

But he is not a supply-sider. I suspect this is because he actually knows something about economics.

[Brother Buzz]

14. Ben Stein is a neoconservative

Ryan's tap may have been the straw that broke the camel's back. That, and Romney's flip-flop shifts over the the dark corner to embrace the wackadoodles. Was a time when Romney had broader support, but that was then, and this is now.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. The pessimistic threads here are not usually about us...they come from posters who see the GOP

as magically skilled and in control of everything at all times. Additionally, those posters see the bulk of Americans as 'idiots, brainwashed' etc, AND themselves as having a crystal clear vision of all that others fail to see. It is not pessimism, it is ego.

[randome]

10. Well said!

I think it's a kind of powerlessness that sets in. And it's understandable since we've had 30 years of Republican rule.

But if you look at the evidence: Palin, Romney, Akin, Ryan, it's clear that today's GOP is much weaker than before.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. +1

[JaneyVee]

11. Holy shit, has Stein been reading Krugman?!

[reformist2]

13. The GOP knows their policies only help the 1% - that's why they don't want to talk about them.