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I agree with your question

Oxy Mora — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:56:49 +0000

In reply to I don't see any evidence of

I agree with your question about Ohio and Wisconsin. It seems with the ground swell of rank and file there, it's not a good position for Romney. Maybe a wedge issue between rank and file and union leaders, trying to solidify whatever anti-Dem sentiment happens to be there.

I don't see any evidence of

AmericanDreamer — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:43:40 +0000

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I don't see any evidence of him trying to hide it, no. There are potential GE swing states such as Ohio and Wisconsin where being unambiguously anti-union is not obviously a political winner for a Republican presidential candidate--at least that's my read of it this year, in light of events of the past year or so.

Being aggressively anti-union clearly is a selling point for Romney in his efforts to at least tamp down opposition to him from the harder-line elements of the GOP who have been supporting anyone except him, as he moves to try to put away the nomination fight as early as he can. My read on that is that, having re-emerged and getting press attention right now, now is a good time for him to try to show Republican base, harder-line primary voters that maybe he's not the soft liberal they've been led to believe he is. Paint a picture of himself as GOP pres nominee they could maybe live with after all. Thus the red meat hard attacks on Obama, now.

Have you seen any evidence

artappraiser — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:50:01 +0000

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Have you seen any evidence that he's trying to hide being anti-union? Just askin' because it seems almost as if you are suggesting he's hiding it from some people; I don't get that sense, I get the sense that being anti-union is something he thinks is a selling point.

Republicans always see others

NCD — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:17:00 +0000

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Republicans always see others doing the shit they know they are guilty of, look at Newt and his philandering while impeaching Clinton. Unions have a long record of helping raise workers into the middle class in this country, rich people with money to invest to make more money, while using it to game the system with have not.

As they say, lawyers don't enlarge the economic pie, they determine who gets which piece of it while taking a slice themselves. Romney's Bain Capital didn't enlarge it either, they bought the whole pie on credit, consumed some or all of it themselves, and left workers, creditors and stockholders with either smaller pieces, or an empty pie tin.

For some of those who are

AmericanDreamer — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:02:52 +0000

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For some of those who are finding it difficult to identify differences between Obama and and the new ASPCA posterchild Romney--or who are committed to voting for Romney on account of thinking him better or more promising on the issues or on the view that firing Obama regardless of who the alternatives are is the way to go--well, here's one. Am wondering who Romney would identify as a union representative who he does not think is a "stooge"? Or will he just come out and say he's anti-union, full stop.

I think it is comical if unsurprising for Silver Spoon Romney to be complaining about Obama's supposed crony capitalism, and to "accuse" Obama of European-style welfarism over Romney's supposedly more "American" "meritocratic" approach. Ha. Meritocratic for whom, Mitt? For already-advantaged people such as you? Even by political standards, that takes some chutzpah.

Of course, only Obama and

NCD — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:04:59 +0000

In reply to Romney blasts Obama for appointing 'union stooges' to NLRB

Of course, only Obama and Democrats abuse the office of President and consort with 'stooges'.

On the other hand, Republicans, whose last President was selected by a Supreme Court decision to stop vote counting in Florida, ignored numerous warnings about an attack on America before 9/11, then tried to avoid investigating it, lied us into a trillion dollar fiasco of a war which his GOP stooges said would pay for itself, be over in months, be a cakewalk as we would be welcomed as liberators, cut taxes on the rich while destroying the Clinton surplus and the economy, bailed out Wall Street led by his Treasury Secretary Paulsen, and was succeeded by McCain who picked a gold digging clown from Alaska to be VP, yes, the GOP is replete with the finest minds, purest motives, and the clearest consciences.