18 Ways Mitt Romney Is Just Like George W. Bush

[WilliamPitt]

I've been saying for a while now that it drives me nuts to see George W. Bush completely erased from history. The GOP wants to hide him at the bottom of a mine shaft, the media (which empowered the shit out of Bush) are all too happy to oblige, and the Democrats - with a few exceptions, as evidenced during the last presidential debate - let them get away with it...even though vast swaths of Romney's campaign/foreign policy crew are former Bush officials with an ocean of blood on their hands. If Romney wins, they'll be right back in power, and God help us all.

So here's this. Pass it on; it's really, really, really important. The points made aren't all that important - some are downright dumb - but making the connection between these two in any way possible needs to happen.

18 Ways Mitt Romney Is Just Like George W. Bush
The Republican challenger tries to distance himself from Dubya, but the facts tell a different story

By Tim Dickinson
Rolling Stone Magazine

October 18, 201

Mitt Romney clearly wants to run away from the Bush legacy of unnecessary war, budget-busting tax cuts for the rich and economic collapse. When a town-hall debate questioner finally forced the GOP nominee to directly compare himself to Dubya earlier this week, Romney insisted: "President Bush and I are different people." But place the two men's biographies side by side, and the similarities that emerge are not just striking, they're uncanny.

Here are 18 ways that Willard Mitt Romney is just like George Walker Bush...

The rest: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/18-ways-mitt-romney-is-just-like-george-w-bush-20121018

[jenw2]

1. Was this Mitt govenor or Mitt candidate?

You do know that they're two different people.

[porphyrian]

2. Mitt today and Mitt last week are two different people. We need to treat him as a family. n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. Comparisons to Bush are Obama's greatest weapon

Bush is universally reviled. The closer Mitt seems to Bush, the less likely he is to become President.