Ideological Fault Line! The Doom of the GOP

Ideological Fault Line! The Doom of the GOP January 12, 2012 4:56 pm BuckGalaxy

Wow. THIS is what Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and Ron Paul are attacking Mitt Romney with. It’s a longish video but well worth watching if you want a preview of the debate that will shape the next 10 months.

Rush is getting an aneurysm over it. It’s “anti-capitalism!” Pure Bullshit. Talking about the excesses of ONE company like Bain is anti-capitalism like the NYT doing a bad book review is anti-literature. Intelligent people can debate the excesses, legal or not, of the corporate raiders and their leveraged buyouts, without condemning the entire free market system.

And that very concept is what is so poisonous to the GOP. The hoards of working class republican voters who have been deceived through wedge issues and obfuscations into voting against their own and their nation’s interests, they too have resentments against the type of Wall St. financiers who destroy businesses and jobs and pocket billions leaving scorched earth in their wake. Justifiably so! And opening the ideological schism that the free market actually needs rules is a watershed moment on the far right!

The times they are a changin’!!!!!

I don't think so. Look at Bush Jr, Bush Sr, and Ronny Reagan. A very dirty and expensive ... by bowser 2012-01-12 19:29:57
The Bain Bomb fizzles by TB 2012-01-12 18:54:10
- Clearly the video is slanted politically, but while a few details are fuzzy the essential facts are Bain bought these ... by BuckGalaxy 2012-01-13 10:40:40
  - "...there has now been a seed of information planted in the minds of the GOP working class folks. Information that ... by ER 2012-01-13 11:00:17
  - The point is that the "information" is false. by TB 2012-01-13 10:51:43
    - So it's false that "an attack on ONE company is not an attack on the entire free market system"???? ... by BuckGalaxy 2012-01-13 13:08:33
      - And here come Gingrich in SC! It's working! by BuckGalaxy 2012-01-13 23:17:13
    - "I suspect there’s more to this “Super PAC” than meets the eye." An intriguing comment. Do you suspect that perhaps ... by ER 2012-01-13 11:53:06
      - I have no information other than idle speculation. by TB 2012-01-14 10:37:02
        
        Well, the conventional wisdom is that Obama fears Romney, so if you're implying Democrats are behind this, those two facts ... by ER 2012-01-14 13:04:24
        
        "Conventional wisdom" = what we're told to believe. by TB 2012-01-14 16:19:06
        
        "what we're told to believe" = things that a lot of people believe but TB does not like. by alcaray 2012-01-17 19:48:17
        
        TB is drunk on his own beer. He wants his pov to be correct so badly it has dulled ... by BuckGalaxy 2012-01-17 21:29:34
        
        Key word here: "noise." by TB 2012-01-17 21:40:14
        
        You don't have to be told to believe things that are demonstrably true. by TB 2012-01-17 21:28:08
        
        If you add up the amount of OPINION that each of us consumes, you are the clear winner, around here. ... by alcaray 2012-01-18 19:32:03
        
        I make the point on this very thread (several times actually) that attacking one man or one business is not ... by BuckGalaxy 2012-01-14 19:29:50
        
        Man, you guys are taking this pretty hard. I haven't seen you this scared since OWS got started. Oh, and ... by ER 2012-01-14 18:17:11
        
        You can keep revising the outside world, but you aren't going to have much luck revising me. by TB 2012-01-14 18:42:14
        
        There is indeed a test of legitimacy and authenticity in politics. It's called an election. Until then, everything you ... by ER 2012-01-14 18:53:03
- Oh, for God's sake, TB!!!!! (5 of 'em!!!!!) A Bain Capital source extolling Romney and Bain Capital. Just saying it ... by bowser 2012-01-12 19:34:46
- More from Politico. by TB 2012-01-12 19:01:57
The circular firing squad is fixing bayonets and preparing to charge. by ER 2012-01-12 17:45:53
- Good Lord, the irony... by TB 2012-01-12 19:22:35
  - The humanity, the humanity... by ER 2012-01-12 19:26:51

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