— His current 2012 views (like Obama’s, and lately Chu’s) evincing both his pragmatism and his flexibility, I guess. Per TNR: Befitting his profile as a moderate Republican who cared about the environment, Governor Romney responded [in 2006 – ed]to price spikes by describing them as the natural result of global market pressures and by calling for increases in fuel efficiency — the same approach that he now derides Obama
March 22, 2012
Language, progressivism, and you
I know, I know: all the discussion on this site about how language and intepretation works, or are asserted to work, is “fundamentally unserious.” After all, we have a member of Team R to get into office, so that he can get to work diluting heavily concentrated progressive initiatives with some of the GOP’s patented compassionate conservatism (which consists largely of accepting the left’s narrative frames, then working to show
“Mitt Romney: George W. Bush And Henry Paulson Saved Country From Depression”
I’m not sure what’s worse here: that the GOP’s “inevitable” candidate, touted by the GOP establishment and their lapdogs for his “electability,” is now on record as praising the economic portion Bush presidency; or that he is now on record as claiming that it was TARP — supported by Obama and rejected by conservatives — that saved us from a depression. — Which, I guess once you’ve decided that we’re
Wasserman Schultz: I didn’t say that thing I’m on the record and on camera saying
So tell your video clips to stop lying. Racists.
It can’t be racist if you’re a progressive, because progressives are against racism. Stanley Fish told me as much.
So, QED. Notes John Nolte: what a disconnect. While Academy Award-winner and Obama supporter Tom Hanks and Eagles musician Glenn Frey parade around in the worst racial stereotypes imaginable, they mock Republicans. I guess they believe that inoculates them from bathing in open racism. Because it does, John. In Ameritopia — and in fact in any tyrannical or liberal fascist leftist regime — your political identity determines your moral worth.
