Comments on: Lemann on Romney: Transaction Man

By: Maggie's Farm

Maggie's Farm — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:14:38 +0000

Late Friday morning links…

Stop Being Excellent! Excelling isn’t fair. What a great lesson for the kids. Climate Craziness of the Week — USA Today duped into thinking severe weather began in 1980 Related: Why it seems that severe weather is “getting worse” when the data s…

By: GoneWithTheWind

GoneWithTheWind — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:18:41 +0000

Not a “shallow place holder” Just a place holder.
Yes my response was rude, sorry. It appeared to me that you intentionally put words or meaning into what I said that misrepresented my point. I too will vote for Romney, but I will also prepare for another great depression and perhaps worse. Romney will be genuinely suprised with each downturn and crash of the economy. One day he will come on TV to tell us all that he has worked as hard as he ever has to find some way to balance the budget without a tax increase but sadly taxes must go up (except for the 47% who pay nothing and suck up most of the welfare). Romney will within two years make agreements that will essentially give illegals the dream act and other forms of amnesty. He will continue to bend over backwards to allow minority groups to get race based advantages to anything government has any control of. Two years after he is elected we will still have millions and millions of highly paid and grossly underworked federal government employees. Our federal budget will continue to climb while SS and Medicare will be reduced and welfare will continue to grow out of control. It is likely that in each of the first four years of his presidency the deficit will exceed $1 trillion with no hope of ever being balanced. And, worst of all, he will continue to fight expensive and futile wars in the middle East while at the same time shrinking the military budget effectively reducing our ability to protect ourselves in the event Russia or China decides to take advantage of our vulnerability. Every economic and social pointer is aimed the wrong direction and Romney will be unable to reverse any of this. Why? Not because he isn’t intelligent, not because he isn’t a nice guy, but simply because he is accustomed to compromising to get things done and those who are arrayed against him are accustomed to using compromise to get everything they want. We are screwed. In addition to all these rosey predictions I will add that today I think it is being propped up simply to get us past the election and once this is over regardless of who wins that a number of dominoes will fall. Before the next president gets sworn in I expect things to get far worse. Who ever is sworn in they will be forced to take steps to raise taxes, borrow more money and pay off more unions just to keep the wolves from the door. We need a Thomas Jefferson, we have a George Jefferson, What will Romney be?

By: RandomThoughts

RandomThoughts — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:26:52 +0000

GWTW, RE: I believe Romney has depth and relevant experience. If that is what you got from what I said I hope your job and future don’t depend on reading comprehension. You dismissed Romney as a shallow placeholder incapable of making tough decisions in tough times. Sorry if my response wasn't eruditely worded enough for your superior intellect. Obviously your future doesn't depend upon civility nor an understanding of the people with whom you attempt to dialog...or perhaps to whom you pontificate would be more apt. Fortunately you aren't the typical caliber of participant on this blog. parker: Isn’t it painfully clear that choosing between Obama and Romney is like choosing sickness or health? Yes. Let's hope that enough of the voting public grasps that difference.

By: Gary Rosen

Gary Rosen — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:54:09 +0000

“This IS the choice-Obama or Romney. Me, I’ll crawl over broken glass to vote for Romney.”

This.

By: reticent

reticent — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:34:47 +0000

It took me a while to get to the passage Neo was talking about because I was transfixed by the anecdote related on the first page or so where a Romney acquaintance was randomly stopped by a stranger, decades ago, who said, “Mitt Romney is the finest person I have ever known.”

By: GoneWithTheWind

GoneWithTheWind — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:21:49 +0000

I believe Romney has depth and relevant experience. If that is what you got from what I said I hope your job and future don’t depend on reading comprehension. The problem is that our country is going into the tank. Perhaps we will be lucky and simply experience another 11 year long great depression. But probably it will be worse. What we need is someone who would be willing to take the radical steps that might save us. Romney can’t save us. Everything in his experience and belief system will cause him to stay the course with minor corrections. Romney is a smart and likeable man. That’s good I look forward to the fireside chats he will give us as our economy goes down the tubes. I would certainly rather hear him then the arrogant ignorant prick who holds that office today.

By: RandomThoughts

RandomThoughts — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:52:14 +0000

GoneWithTheWind,

On what do you base your assessment of Romney: He will take the safe route…In short he is a “place keeper”… He will preside over the collapse of our economy, our SS system and medicare. He will promise much and deliver little.

From what I’ve read and seen since Romney began running for president, he has no intention of being a “place keeper,” nor does he have the lack of depth and absence of relevant experience that you seem to perceive in him.

By: parker

parker — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:14:36 +0000

I’m tired of ‘liberals’ and their convoluted narrative of what should be obvious. In Mr. Lemann’s case he obviously needs a flashlight and a mirror to find the place where the sun does not shine. Isn’t it painfully clear that choosing between Obama and Romney is like choosing sickness or health?

(Before foxmarks gets too excited, ‘health’ is a relative thing.)

By: stu

stu — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:03:45 +0000

The ad by the successful refugee from Hungary is as powerful a defense of the free society as you will ever see in a one minute spot. Please run it in every swing state.

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:01:15 +0000

expat – “what struck me was the “atypical privilged youth” bit. Did anyone ever say that about the Kennedy offspring or any of the legacy Ivy grads.”

More recently, they have said it about Bush; but not about Gore (his father was a senator and his mother one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School, and Al himself lived on Embassy Row. More “atypical” than most; but, nary a peep).