Mitt Romney doesn't seem to understand.
“Democrats are in the process of destroying his strengths, the one thing that connects him to independents and conservative Democrats,” says Republican messaging mastermind Frank Luntz. That, in essence, is exactly what happened in 2004, when fierce supporters of the sitting president tried to undercut John Kerry’s key credential—namely, his service in Vietnam. “The Obama approach is not a surprise. Romney should have known this would be coming.”
Daniel Stone of The Daily Beast consulted GOP strategists, who "admit they’re surprised that Romney hasn’t had a response prepared for attacks on his Bain record, and that questionable finances weren’t dealt with several years ago, before Romney started running in earnest."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/18/messaging-guru-frank-luntz-offers-romney-help-on-bain-taxes.html
Mitt's intransigence, even indignance, over demands for his tax returns might stem from the Weltanschauung he developed over years of palling around with The Masters of the Universe. One-percenters, as I learned from a few friends at Princeton, do play by different rules. What used to be noblesse oblige morphed into an attitude of entitlement and self-absorption that allows them to think of themselves as the North Pole of their own moral compasses. (I'm lookin' at you, Arthur Laffer!)
Rule Number One: Mind Your Own Business! No one is qualified to second-guess what (in his own mind) is perfectly proper manipulation of the rules - which is also why it seems logical to only him that public scrutiny of the forms he submitted to the government is verboten on the basis that someone might comment unfairly on them.
And so it would only cause Mitt cognitive dissonance for me to tell him that his blind spot of a bias should disqualify him as a leader in a democracy. After all, he's running for president, for Pete's sake.
“Democrats are in the process of destroying his strengths, the one thing that connects him to independents and conservative Democrats,” says Republican messaging mastermind Frank Luntz. That, in essence, is exactly what happened in 2004, when fierce supporters of the sitting president tried to undercut John Kerry’s key credential—namely, his service in Vietnam. “The Obama approach is not a surprise. Romney should have known this would be coming.”
Daniel Stone of The Daily Beast consulted GOP strategists, who "admit they’re surprised that Romney hasn’t had a response prepared for attacks on his Bain record, and that questionable finances weren’t dealt with several years ago, before Romney started running in earnest."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/18/messaging-guru-frank-luntz-offers-romney-help-on-bain-taxes.html
Mitt's intransigence, even indignance, over demands for his tax returns might stem from the Weltanschauung he developed over years of palling around with The Masters of the Universe. One-percenters, as I learned from a few friends at Princeton, do play by different rules. What used to be noblesse oblige morphed into an attitude of entitlement and self-absorption that allows them to think of themselves as the North Pole of their own moral compasses. (I'm lookin' at you, Arthur Laffer!)
Rule Number One: Mind Your Own Business! No one is qualified to second-guess what (in his own mind) is perfectly proper manipulation of the rules - which is also why it seems logical to only him that public scrutiny of the forms he submitted to the government is verboten on the basis that someone might comment unfairly on them.
And so it would only cause Mitt cognitive dissonance for me to tell him that his blind spot of a bias should disqualify him as a leader in a democracy. After all, he's running for president, for Pete's sake.
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