2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSo what is Romney's PLAN for America if elected POTUS?
I realize that this may seem like a trick question but after thinking about it but does anybody really know what he is proposing to do if elected POTUS- I mean other than more or less going right back to the usual Republican bromides of tax cuts for the wealthy, less regulation and oversight, pretty much repealing everything President Obama and the Democrats achieved from 2009-2011?
I have yet to hear any "bold" and/or "new" vision of what a Romney Presidency would look like from him and what he might offer the country (though maybe that is the whole point). The only thing that I've been able to figure out is that he thinks that Obama has done everything wrong and nothing right (like every single right-winger out there) and if elected would pretty much just do the complete opposite of whatever President Obama has done/is doing.
He's taken a lot of positions on a lot of things but nobody can know for sure whether or not he would actually enact what he *says* he supports but, frankly, it doesn't matter because he's going to have start running for re-election from day one and if he has a Republican Congress to work with, he will be under immense pressure to sign anything they send him. In that respect, he should be Grover Norquist's ideal candidate as he is such a "Tabula Rasa" that the Republican Congress should simply be able to hand him all of their "wildest dreams" legislation to be signed with no questions asked.
Have I missed something (re: Romney)?
Blue Owl
(50,490 posts)wait -- oops...
get the red out
(13,468 posts)He'd have to check with Wall Street and get back with us on that.
sinkingfeeling
(51,471 posts)gains tax. Close down Planned Parenthood. Repeal 'Obamacare'. Bomb Iran. And run America like it's Bain.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)And we're doubly fucked if we can't hold on to the Senate and get a majority in the House.
NICO9000
(970 posts)It was as dumb and ridiculous as he is, so of course, it's now abandoned.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,436 posts)Half the people listening were probably asleep by the time he went through the first 10..........if they managed to get that far into it, that is..........
groundloop
(11,521 posts)sell off the parts that can bring fast cash and bankrupt the rest.
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)and the looting will resume.
Grover will fill his bathtub.
And we will all lose.
great white snark
(2,646 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)he will sell our assets to China and then move the profits from the sale to an account in some tax haven, under a corporate name, of course, so that we won't be able to find them.
He will fire all government employees and outsource the work to third world countries.
Foreclosures will increase, of course, as fewer and fewer Americans have any money to pay down their mortgages. So he will sell the foreclosed properties cheap in large bunches to his wealthy friends -- the 1% of the 1% -- who will destroy any they can't rent. Of course, we won't have jobs, so we won't be able to rent the houses -- and he and his friends will grow food to export to the wealthy in other countries like China and Saudi Arabia.
Until Romney clearly describes his vision for those of us in the country who are not millionaires, I assume this is his plan based on his past performance.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)I know he earlier released last year's return but isn't it customary for every candidate to go back at least ten years or more, as one year's return means nothing?