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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (179812)	1/21/2012 1:59:26 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542941

<<<Therefore, if he is elected, and after taking a look at the numbers, I think he'll do what needs to be done. Being independently wealthy and not beholden to others helps in this regards.>>> It is not that easy. He is issuing as many political IOUs as he is giving autographs. He may get away with a few cabinet positions of his own choosing but at the next level, Bush administration bureaucrats and "think tank nominees" will all come out of the wood works including Rumsfeld and Cheney spear carriers. Worst of all, SC nominees will have far right pedigree.

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (179812)	1/21/2012 3:20:14 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542941

Now that takes the notion of the least bad alternative to another level. If my wife and others complain that voting for Obama is a lesser evil vote, living with Romney as president as some sort of next stage down the path into the lesser evil stuff, well, that's, hmmm, a gripping metaphor escapes me. Dale's very capable territory. But I must say there is something to that argument, best I can tell. The argument that the nuttier the Rep candidate, the better for Obama has a great deal of appeal, of course. But there is one scenario to worry about. The electorate this year is extremely unpredictable, angry, you name it. We could wind up with the nuttier-than-thou Rep as a president. And a whole collection of nuttier-than-thou members of congress. I need only to think back to 1980, as several of us have said to one another here. Reagan was too nutty to win. And look what that got the country.!!

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (179812)	1/21/2012 10:04:44 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542941

Romney has a technocratic background, which in principle might serve him well as President. In practice, being President isn't really a technical occupation these days. Given the toxic dogmatism of the current Republican party, I'm not sure if he's equipped to push back. He certainly hasn't shown any inclination to push back on the toxicity front so far, having adopted the "you have to be conservative to serve America" line and similar Republican "we are the only true Americans" claptrap. Of course having to deal with, say, the SC Republican electorate might lead one to say some intemperate things. But, as they said back in '68, the whole world's watching.