December 31, 2011Wall Street's Bad Romance With Mitt RomneyBen Adler, The Nation | ||||||
Throughout the 2012 election cycle Republican candidate Mitt Romney has made ham-handed efforts at playing a populist. His standard applause line on the stump is an appeal to nationalism, that he will “never apologize for America.” He criticizes President Obama for “taking advice from the Harvard faculty lounge,” even though Romney himself holds law and business degrees from Harvard and counts Harvard professors among his economic and foreign policy advisers. Huntsman is skipping Iowa to campaign in New Hampshire because he appeals to moderate Republicans. But is he even really a moderate? Civil libertarians and non-interventionists on both the right and left are praising Paul, but they should know his views are wrong on more than... TAGGED: Wall Street, Mitt Romney, Ben Adler RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
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