Nobody Cares About Mitt Romney’s Cartoonishly Evil Tax Proposals
Then he goes on to make the perfectly sensible point that Romney is such a bad candidate we shouldn’t need to resort to this kind of stuff regardless. After all, Romney’s tax plan would raise taxes on 18 million working families at the same time that it lowers taxes on millionaires. This is almost cartoonishly ridiculous:
Especially given the state of income inequality, those highlighted proposals are astounding. Almost surely, these are the craziest basic proposals in modern campaign history….They fly in the face of the need for more revenue. They fly in the face of the very low tax rates currently paid by high earners. We’ll guarantee you that very few voters are familiar with these proposals. Even fewer understand the surrounding facts which make them so astounding.
Bob laments that liberals seem unable to swat Romney like a fly with stuff like this. And he’s got a point. What kind of movement is so lame that it can’t make hay with tax plans seemingly delivered straight from a 19th-century robber baron’s sneering countenance?
And yet, as near as I can tell, the plain fact is that attacks like this don’t seem to work all that well. They aren’t useless, but they aren’t silver bullets either. They’re too wonky. Viewers aren’t sure they believe them. It sounds like the usual he-said-she-said nonsense. And anyway, everyone assumes that Republicans aren’t really serious about the looniest of the stuff they spout. It’s just red meat for the true believers, right?
It’s crazy. It’s astounding. It is, perhaps, a long-term abject failure on the part of both the media and the liberal project