6 thoughts on “Class Warfare Rhetoric”

  1. I was just watching a vid of Margaret Thatcher where she pointed out you want the gap between rich and poor to be wider rather than not. The poor by definition have little or no money. Raising the average income requires at some point for the rich to become richer. Otherwise you have more poverty, not less.

    Marxist thought has become pervasive to the point we don’t even recognize it. It’s juvenile thinking that goes under the cover of elite thinking. It’s like a bunch of stupid kids gathered around a fire congratulating themselves on how much smarter they are than their parents. It doesn’t make it so.

    What makes America the land of opportunity (govt. making it less so the bigger it gets) is that class is not static in this country. Everyone is born naked and goes from there.

  2. There is room for a “Third Way” manner of populist program, even from, dare I say especially from a Republican candidate. Mr. Obama reverts to what we call class warfare rhetoric, but he is far from pure on this score — I have been suggesting people look at Ron Suskind’s “Confidence Men” on this.

    If Mr. Gingrinch from the outset presented himself as that populist “Third Way Candidate”, criticising both Mr. Romney for his putative “vulture capitalism” along with Mr. Obama being “in bed with Wall Street”, for which a very strong case can be made, he may have gotten some traction. With respect to the “in bed with Wall Street” remark, don’t think for a minute that “Capitalism is Capitalism and anybody who criticises the private sector is a Commie.” The interests of Wall Street are not that of Main Street, that is, the multitude of small businesses in our economy.

    The thing with Mr. Gingrinch is that he is late to the party and his knocks on Mr. Romney sound like sour grapes rather than a new direction for the Republican Party.

    The thing with the Libertarian/Conservative/Right Blogosphere is that yes, the Occupy Movement has set up a series of rat and crime-infested camps and are occupied by spoiled brat college grads who need to stop whining. But in the almost reflexive and universal condemnation of Occupy that seems to occupy the attention of the Right Blogosphere, we are missing a point and missing an opportunity. Mr. Obama would love to carry the banner of Occupy, but Occupy is not about him, or it is about him inasmuch that Mr. Obama has made opportunistic and perhaps cynical compromises with Wall Street and could be tarred with the “1 percent” label.

    I have used this analogy before, but like Star Trek’s Commodore Decker, Occupy may be a bunch of smelly hippies, but they “have the right idea, only they don’t have enough power behind it.”

  3. I’ve been a Newt Gingrich fan from way back. (I actually bought a copy of Window of Opportunity when it came out.) But yeah, he hasn’t been covering himself in glory lately, and I have not been impressed by him as a candidate.

    There’s a reason for the Eleventh Commandment. Conservatives and libertarians face organized hostility from the media, who will seize on any criticism of a perceived enemy by his own side. Newt has joined the circular firing squad.

    And let’s face it, people who know how to push Newt’s buttons — *cough* Bill Clinton *cough* — can trick him into own goals all too easily. I shudder to think of the potential gaffes if he were to become the Republican candidate.

    Worse, as President Newt would be a square peg in a round hole. He’s a great idea man, but by temperament he’s not a very good executive. He’d be better than Obama, of course, but that’s a very low bar.

  4. It’s been said that the Gingrich/Perry attacks against Romney on his history at Bain Capital will make him better prepared to take on the eventual attacks from the progressive Obama campaign later this year. Frankly I think the anti-Bain argument we’ve seen from Camp Gingrich is very weak. Just wait for the Obama camp to trot out everybody who’s ever been laid off by any company linked to Bain. And the attacks will only ramp up when the new Batman movie opens this July. Team Obama will morph Mitt Romney into a supervillain working for “Bane Capital.”

    If the Right really wants grounds to criticize Mitt Romney, it should try finding examples of Bain accepting some form of corporate welfare. I don’t expect to see it as the Romney coronation train rolls along.

  5. I say we dig up Ronald Reagan. Even dead w/ Alzheimer’s he’s a better candidate than any we have today.

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