I pick up The Financial Times to go with breakfast and there we have a story on the editorial page about Mitt Romney. I even think this is supposed to be a positive account, but allow me to quote:
Mitt Romney’s credentials for the White House are good. But as Americans will be reminded at at his nominating convention in Tampa this week, there is a problem with the Republican Party he leads.
Detractors, including many Republicans, will worry his persona remains too aloof and his attempts at interaction with people too weird.
Given Mr Romney’s limited campaign skills, there may be reasons to doubt he will be able to transcend his image as a heartless corporate raider.
Mr Romney has been forced to abandon his common sense positions to get the nomination. These include fiscal pragmatism (he signed the pledge), a practical approach to illegal immigration, moderation on issues such as abortion and acceptance that global warming is partly man made. In each case, Mr Romney has submitted to prevailing – and hardening – Republican theology.
If it goes well the convention ought to showcase Mr Romney’s executive skills. It may also shine the light on the growing anti-enlightenment dimension of the party he leads. The moral of the story is this: were he required to work with a Democrat-controlled Congress, Mr Romney could make a good president. But if he had to dance to the ‘starve the beast’ tunes of Paul Ryan’s congressional peers, all bets at sensible governance would be off.
Why bother with The Guardian when you can get all this in the premier financial paper of Europe.
Hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahaha
The UK is a toilet.
JC
27 Aug 12 at 8:12 pm
Is Hurricane Isaac an omen for Romney?
SteveC
27 Aug 12 at 8:18 pm
Fuckwits.
I cannot be polite, sorry. Governance is inversely proportional to a shrinking ‘value for money function’.
This is blindingly obvious if you are not braindead.
Whoever wrote this ought to be made to drink hemlock for the crime of asebia.
.
27 Aug 12 at 8:20 pm
The FT is a fundamentally corporatist rather than capitalist newspaper. Whereas a capitalist newspaper (like the WSJ, for example) generally believes the correct way for a business to prosper is for it to produce something the public wants at a price it can afford, the corporatist believes the private sector can and should only prosper by arse-licking for government contracts, and destroying your competitors by burying them in government regulations (which thanks to your connections will not apply to you). The idea that anyone can prosper independently of the government of the day is fundamentally alien to them. It’s only natural the FT would support Obama.
The same applies to the FT’s stablemate, the Economist.
squawkbox
27 Aug 12 at 8:30 pm
If only Mitt Romney was more like a left wing extremist (like Barack Obama), he’d be so much better. Ahahahahahahaha. They never alter the script, these lefties.
C.L.
27 Aug 12 at 8:45 pm
The papers here have been full of doom and gloom about Campbell Newman’s re-election chances in… 2017.
The left must be purged.
Infidel Tiger
27 Aug 12 at 8:48 pm
Fibro is Phil I have no doubt
Tal
27 Aug 12 at 9:01 pm
Are you an athiest SteveC? It has been remarkable to read so many athiests and so called rationalists peddle this mumbo jumbo.
I’m sure it would get a chuckle on SfB blog and Crikey. Take it over there.
Token
27 Aug 12 at 9:05 pm
Fibro does have that nasty anti-social aggressiveness of Phil.
Token
27 Aug 12 at 9:06 pm
If Britian is to be saved then only Harry Can do it.
Pickles
27 Aug 12 at 9:16 pm
If Britian is to be saved then only Harry Can do it.
Are we talking about the prince? If so, naked. He has to do it stark naked.
perturbed
27 Aug 12 at 11:08 pm
All of the notes are true. He’s moved from a moderate republican who implemented universal health care to a hard right republican because that has proposed massive tax cuts for the rich, with tax increases for the middle class.
(yes I know you’ll say that’s a talking point, but the math of his proposals don’t add up without getting rid of tax expenditures, which will effectively increase middle class taxes)
WadeJ
28 Aug 12 at 12:19 am
Wadej, we’ve heard that trick. But, you know, it appears that the majority of Americans don’t buy this class warfare you are preaching.
Boris
29 Aug 12 at 3:53 am
Wadej, most states and most Americans don’t want this universal health care. I know all the left, especially in Europe, love it, but Americans don’t. Not in Obama form anyway.
Boris
29 Aug 12 at 3:55 am
CL and I previously agreed on one thing: that Christians won’t vote for Romney. Has your opinion changed, CL?
Personally I am no longer sure.
Boris
29 Aug 12 at 3:56 am
I cancelled my subscription to the Financial Times four weeks ago.
More a waste of time than money. Reading it at breakfast is like drinking instant coffee with too much water.
Scott
31 Aug 12 at 8:57 am