The WSJ editorial board goes them one better by routinely ignoring the excellent reporting in their own pages and treating Art Laffer like some kind of bona fide intellectual. Just because you're on the editorial board of a business publication doesn't mean you're an economics genius, apparently. Speaking of genius businessmen, then there's Jack Welch who has made of himself a fine spectacle lately.
Mitt Romney. That was an easy one, despite his aspirations to conservative severity. I predict that as president he won't once gather the Dems together for a phony kumbaya moment and say "scoreboard, bitch" like Obama did with the GOP.
He's got to become president first. Which, you know, kind of isn't happening. I am quite sure Tom was referring to 'centrist' by overall US political standards by the way, not by GOP standards.
As if Bill Clinton inherited the 2008 economy. Romnesia is all the rage in the echo chamber these days.
Until the 20th, yeah... then it's off to NZ or Canada most likely, after a few weeks in the Gili Islands. Is there a point to your post?
Upon what do you base your assessment that Mitt Romney is, by pretty much any definition of the word, "centrist"?
Being an unscrupulous flip flopper with no convictions of your own is not the same as being a moderate. Ezra Klein has Mr. Etch-A-Sketch pegged: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-01/running-the-data-on-a-romney-presidency.html "The truth is that Romney isn’t a hard-core conservative -- but he’s willing to act as one. Nor is he a genuine moderate -- unless that’s what the situation calls for. At this point, neither voters nor Romney have sufficient data to know how he would govern. With a Republican Congress, he would govern from the right. With a Democratic Congress, he would move to the center. If he faces a divided Congress, he will look for compromise to get “the best possible thing done.” Without knowing the composition of Congress, we can’t know the kind of president Romney would be."
If Bill Clinton is a moderate, it is. You gave a narrow-minded partisan description of a pragmatist. True, I'd prefer a guy who's got firm opinions on everything, but I'll take a competent pragmatist over a proven incompetent ideologue like Obama.
Who said Bill Clinton was a moderate? Not me. He is basically Romney's model, though. And this is their favorite movie title: So you're voting Green Party then. I admit, I did not see that one coming.
Because that is evidently the only possible outcome in your dreamworld. It will take you awhile to realize that there's some other guy who won. Advil may help.
Too bad you don 't live in Missouri... http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2000/11/07/uselxn_hillary.html
That's the scary thing about a Romney presidency. You can only hide behind congress for so long. Especially on the world stage every president gets called into a pivotal critical decision at least once in his presidency. Who's going to make that decision? Romney? Dan Senor? Dick Cheney on a conference call? Netanyahu? There's so many hands up that puppet's ass I don't know what to think. To be fair the Obama candidacy was plagued by this question too, but his campaign wasn't riddled with one foreign policy gaffe after another. He also had the one critical point he could reference to ensure us of his good judgement ... and that was his early opposition to the Iraq war.
Read for yourself: http://www.economist.com/news/leade...sadly-mitt-romney-does-not-fit-bill-which-one Ramesh Ponnuru is extremely bitter about it: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/332305/economists-obama-endorsement-ramesh-ponnuru Brad DeLong gets snarky about it: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/11/the-economist-endorses-barack-obama.html Now that raging bolsheviks like Bloomberg and the Economist editorial board have broken lockstep and backed Obama, it will be interesting to see if others in business follow.
Hey, I've offered it to you before and I'll offer it again: Obama wins the election, and you get a forum ban for 6-12 months. Romney wins the election, and I get a forum ban for FOUR YEARS. So are you going to take up the bet this time, or no?