11 February 2012

A conservative, a moderate, & a liberal walks into a bar...


I wonder how Mitt Romney would do on the Pew quiz posted here yesterday?  Does anyone know his policies well enough to try the quiz for him?

3 comments:

  1. He would answer the questions trying to get whatever result served best to help him win. He'd probably do the poll several times with different answers so he could be whaterver you want him to be.

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  2. Short answer: Does he?

    Longer answer: more or less what BJN said.

    The thing about Romney that he doesn't understand is that he has never known real adversity or uncertainty. He's never not gotten what he wanted or had to make do with less in any meaningful way. Lincoln's great quote — if you want to know a man's character, give him power — is sort of apt here. With all the resources and business acumen he is alleged to have, did he start a company that made products or changed people's lives, other than his? His father ran a car company, saved it from the brink. Willard shoved companies over the brink, once he had sucked every drop of life out of them.

    Consider the university students in the 80s and 90s who devised a lot of the protocols and standards we use to communicate today, simple to scratch their own itches or to see if it could be done. Tim Berners-Lee never considered patenting or licensing the underlying technology of what we call the worldwide web. What had Willard done with the power and privilege he came into? What about his sons? What are they doing besides trying to secure their father's entitlement to the nation's highest office?

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  3. A) Even I think that joke is funny, and I plan to vote for Mitt.
    B) @Crank. What of Obama's so called "genius", his presitgious schooling and Ivy League law degree? What did he ever do except get his opponents removed from the ballot. What did he create? What good has he done? Most would say the obvious - he's so self-absorbed, all he's ever done is work to climb the next rung. He never wrote anything interesting at Harvard, he never proposed any important legislation, indeed he hardly ever voted. You argument is a slippery one.

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