Romney: "...vacant replicant of American plutocracy..."

Whew, Charles P. Pierce is back writing on Esquire's Politics blog after a brief break.  I must be perfectly honest with my readers here, Pierce's writing is precisely the kind of cutting snark I thought I would be writing when I started Neon Gods. Unfortunately I lacked one thing: talent.  Charley's got it and I love reading him. This morning he begins by profiling the "new" Mitt Romney...

Comes now this pure piece of manufactured product, this vacant replicant of American plutocracy, to lecture a country in the middle of a fragile recovery from an economic disaster brought on by the other soulless replicants on the topics of our vanishing work ethic, and the great moral cleansing power of onrushing poverty...

[Romney] is really the only true class warrior in the race. He's counting on prejudice and ignorance because he is running in the Republican primaries and that's the coin of the realm. But he's also counting on the desperate dreams of desperate people who want to believe that there is a big bag of money out there that's going to the Wrong People, and that, if someone would only re-direct it, their lives would be better. Well, there is a big bag of money out there, and it is indeed going to the Wrong People, and those would be the people in whose company Willard Romney has spent his entire, cosseted, entitled existence.  [emphasis added]

To win the Republican nomination Romney has had to take positions and say things that are bound to come back to bite him if he is the GOP nominee, IF the Democrats and Obama have the guts to defend those who get "entitlements" as responsible, hard working Americans who have earned those government checks.

--Trakker

 

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Romney's vacuous generalization; the voters don't see that?

On the link:

He [Romney]'s railing against what he calls President Obama's attempts to turn the United States into "an entitlement society." (This charge, of course, coming as it does from a guy whose gifts as a liar are as rudimentary as his skills as a demagogue, is utterly false, but let's all be big-boy pundits and pretend for a while that truth isn't necessarily ever the point.)

An entitlement society? If the voters elect Romney it's because they deserve him.

[Trakker]

If the voters elect Romney it's because they deserve him.

John Cole, writing at Balloon Juice today, admitted that a decade ago he was a loony right winger. He's changed a lot since then, but believes that even at his looniest he didn't think he could vote for any Republican now running for President and wonders how anyone could. The answer, of course, is Fox News.