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I watched the Presidential Debate last night. There was a general absence of NASCAR moments, although Romney’s insistence that the President actually didn’t say what the President actually did say about the Benghazi attack came close. Leaving that aside, the impression that I was left with is that Romney is running a giant con game, and the American people are his marks.
Romney has a secret plan to cut unemployment.
Romney has a secret plan to eliminate the federal deficit.
Romney has a secret plan to cut the cost of higher education.
Romney has a secret plan to eliminate tax deductions and exemptions and credits.
Romney has a secret plan to cut federal spending.
Romney has a secret plan for equal pay for women.
Romney has a secret plan for healthcare reform.
Yeah, right. Whatever. And that was just the first 30 minutes.
This is showing my age, but I remember Richard Nixon’s secret plan to end the war in Vietnam. As I pointed out in a speech on the Floor of the House, Nixon’s secret plan was so secret that even Nixon didn’t know it. Because it didn’t exist; it was a campaign gimmick. But 1968 America was so hungry for peace that 43.4% of the voters bought it, and that was enough to put Nixon in the White House. Nixon then continued the war in Vietnam with US troops for four more years. At the cost of twenty thousand more American soldiers dead, and who knows how many Vietnamese?
Over the metaphysical poker table, Romney is saying to the ghost of Nixon, “I’ll see you one secret plan, and I’ll raise you ten more.”
Many elections turn on the issue of credibility. This Presidential race will turn on the issue of gullibility. The Romney campaign begs the question: Are we really so easily taken in? Are we all babes in the woods? Did we all just crawl out of the cabbage patch? Has Uncle Sam become Uncle Sucker?
I hope not.
Courage,
Alan Grayson
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I soooo hope not. For every problem, Rom. did indeed “have a plan for that.” I kept waiting and waiting thinking that maybe he would say what that plan may be. And one I think had 5 steps….but really no plan. Thanks for noting all the lacking plan. Sooo true.
I’m old enough to remember President Obama’s commitment to a public option for healthcare – a commitment so secret, it didn’t exist, because from the start, he was in the pocket of the health insurance companies who are going to make out like bandits from his “reforms”.
On top of that, OBomber is so far to the right of Richard Nixon, it doesn’t bear thinking about.
How’s it looking in your polls by the way Alan? Hear your using all kinds of dodgy outfits to claim victory early, but maybe the reality on election day will look a little different. Here’s hoping, anyway…
A bit like the noun, verb, 9/11…No plan.
In one of those TV interviews after he left office, Nixon was asked whether he really had a plan. He responded that he did not and wen on to say something to the effect of: “That’s just one of those things you say during a campaign.”
Democrats like Grayson have spent all these months and all their creativity and mental energy bashing Republicans. Day after day after day they have spent their limited time on earth bashing Republicans. I’ll give ‘em this: they’ve got stamina. Parsing Republican gaffes and statements and facial features in a tone reminiscent of high school bullies for weeks and months and years does take stamina.
But, of course, they bash Republicans because there’s nothing redeeming to discuss about Obama and Democratic politicians. Written in fading ink on sweaty, little, Democratic palms is a meaningless phrase: “lesser evil.” That’s it. That’s all they’ve got, and I don’t think they can grasp the evil that will take place after this election is over, and either of these equally evil men begins to crack down on us and the planet in earnest.
Vote third party or don’t vote at all. At least you’ll be able to say you didn’t lend your support and approval to either of these men who will most certainly give their blessing to more war and murder and fracking and starvation and poverty.