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1 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Jul 19, 2012 9:09:49am

I have honestly never seen such a tone-deaf campaign in my life. Ann Romney makes Teresa Kerry look like Laura Bush.

2 HappyWarrior  Thu, Jul 19, 2012 9:13:37am

I am not going to attack her but she doesn't help her husband's cause at all here.

3 shutdown  Thu, Jul 19, 2012 9:13:51am

Empathy is tough to master when you have never had a problem in your life that didn't begin with "Where's the house manager with the checkbook?"

4 Major Tom  Thu, Jul 19, 2012 9:30:22am

re: #1 SanFranciscoZionist

I have honestly never seen such a tone-deaf campaign in my life. Ann Romney makes Teresa Kerry look like Laura Bush.

After McCain's failure, who would have thought a year or two ago that the GOP would pick a guy who is almost universally panned by their base as being a RINO, who created a program just like the Afforable Care Act, whose parents have ties to a foreign country, who refuses to release personal documents- undermining their efforts to get Obama's transcripts, and a (non evangelical) Mormon for their nominee... I was sure that those facts would have immediately disqualified Romney based on the GOP rhetoric that is injected into their base daily...

5 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Jul 19, 2012 12:00:52pm

re: #3 Ascher

Empathy is tough to master when you have never had a problem in your life that didn't begin with "Where's the house manager with the checkbook?"

Eleanor Roosevelt managed. Lots of presidential candidates and their families have been rich as hell. They mostly didn't act like this.

6 shutdown  Thu, Jul 19, 2012 12:14:37pm

re: #5 SanFranciscoZionist

Eleanor Roosevelt managed. Lots of presidential candidates and their families have been rich as hell. They mostly didn't act like this.

True. I did not say 'impossible', I said 'tough'. Having an innate ability to empathize is a wonderful trait; developing it further in the face of one's own privilege and place is rare.

7 Destro  Thu, Jul 19, 2012 12:15:51pm

re: #5 SanFranciscoZionist

Eleanor Roosevelt managed. Lots of presidential candidates and their families have been rich as hell. They mostly didn't act like this.

Yes, the rich used to have a nobles oblige attitude towards their own people (Ford wanting to pay his workers a salary large enough so they could afford his pricey car) but something wicked happened in the 1980s when Reagan and his ideology took hold. I know the 'greed is good' cliche about the 80s is old but it still true - it was a change in the relationship between the haves and nots.

And by the way, Romney's dad, by all accounts was a man of the people very much so.

8 dragonfire1981  Thu, Jul 19, 2012 2:18:20pm

re: #7 Destro

Yes, the rich used to have a nobles oblige attitude towards their own people (Ford wanting to pay his workers a salary large enough so they could afford his pricey car) but something wicked happened in the 1980s when Reagan and his ideology took hold. I know the 'greed is good' cliche about the 80s is old but it still true - it was a change in the relationship between the haves and nots.

And by the way, Romney's dad, by all accounts was a man of the people very much so.

Whereas his son is very clearly a man of the rich people.


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