I think the causality works the other way: people suspect he is a crony and a thief, therefore he got rich. Romney is the face of our massive self-questioning about our own values in the wake global financial disaster. Questioning how he got his wealth and whether it is good for the USA to have people like him in charge (or even people like him at all) is about the best possible way to split up the right-wing coalition. It asks lower-income people who are not politically committed to right-wing immutable policies to think very seriously about whether they benefit from policies that serve the rich. It also asks them to seize some political power since they have no economic power.
This is by far the most important and material issue of the electoral contest so far. The rest is just wind.
I did not defend Sandusky. What I defended was the need to take an objective look at the evidence and the importance of due process. The Sandusky jury obviously agreed with me that McQueary’s testimony did not support a charge of rape, as it was one of only three counts they acquitted him of.
My defense of Paterno stands. He has not remotely been shown to have known even that children were being raped by Sandusky, let alone that he covered it up and allowed it to continue.
I’ve eaten no words.
My conscience is clear.
I’m not trying to start a new argument and I won’t argue the subject further here. I did want to set the record straight though since digs seems determined to try to bait me with this nonsense at every opportunity since I stopped posting in the Paterno thread (which is curious, given that he tried so earnestly to get me to stop posting in it), and I’d hate for any passing newbie or Paterno thread virgin to pass by and mistake him for an honest poster.
Interesting viewpoint. But I think part of the problem is that the right tend to believe in the American dream and are the most likely to believe that they, too, could have riches if they worked hard enough.
Ah, I see what you did there, and it’s a hell of a lot more disingenuous than anything I ever did.
I ain’t saying Dems are saints. I’m saying those assholes who vowed to never raise taxes again, and who want to screw 99% of the US to help the top 1%, are fuckheads of the highest order. And not many, if any, Dems have signed that stupid fucking pledge.
Exactly. This is a direct response to Joe the Plumber. The tax return question suggests that no, you can’t get that rich without being connected, slick dick scumbag who exploits policies that hurt people to maintain wealth. Does Joe the Plumber really want to be Mitt Romney?
This debate highlights just how much the rules are stacked against people with economic power. Rather than struggle individually to eke out a living when their economic interests are of no concern to the powerful, they could use their political power instead. There is nothing in any individual policy position that contains this kind of call to action. This goes much deeper than “fix Medicare.” It’s a call to change the rules of the game entirely. I think that not only have we not seen the end of it, this challenge is going to get deeper and more serious.
I love how so many people are just positive that Romney did something illegal on his taxes, when they obviously have absolutely no facts to back that assertion up. Just a feeling. And yet if a Republican judges something on feeling then they are idiot derps for doing so.
That’s not how the ignore feature works, you dumb fuck.
If you don’t want to read someone’s responses to the fucking moronic things you manage to type, then YOU have to put HIM on YOUR ignore list.
Really this just sums up what a stupid dense fuck you are. You can’t even get simple things like this right, so how can anyone expect that you can understand the simplest of discussions.
Maybe you should just put yourself on your ignore list and be done with it.
I don’t care to see his tax returns. If the IRS thinks he’s done something illegal, they should audit him. I assume very rich people like him are always on their radar, although at this point it would probably be considered political if they were to do so. Still, there was plenty of time over the last few years to get him, if there was anything to get him for.