{"id":12648,"date":"2012-01-11T15:08:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T20:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12648"},"modified":"2012-01-11T15:08:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T20:08:06","slug":"romneys-achilles-heel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12648\/romneys-achilles-heel\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney&#8217;s Achilles Heel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I agree wholeheartedly with both <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12631\/can-romney-defend-democratic-capitalism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashton<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ricochet.com\/main-feed\/Recalibrating-the-Romney-Rhetoric\" target=\"_blank\">Troy<\/a> that Romney does a poor job defending\/advocating democratic capitalism and that Troy&#8217;s approach to what Romney should say is a good one. I also agree with Ashton that Romney, alas, is always going to have a tough time making that sort of case, because experientially and temperamentally (and maybe philosophically) he isn&#8217;t prone to that sort of approach. He really is easy to demonize (from the left)as a corporate raider, which makes him much more vulnerable to such charges in a general election campaign where the opponent has $800 million and is playing for a different set of voters than he is vulnerable to the charge in a GOP contest where the attack is rightly seen as perhaps scurrilous, and at least rhetorical overkill. Gingrich and Perry right now are doing Obama&#8217;s work for him &#8212; and it will make Romney all the more vulnerable in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, if Romney tried language like Troy&#8217;s, it would help. But only so much. The sad reality is that he&#8217;s the perfect foil for Obama, both as plutocrat and as yet another Republican dynastic legatee. If he gets the nomination, he will be a weak general-election candidate because of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree wholeheartedly with both Ashton and Troy that Romney does a poor job defending\/advocating democratic capitalism and that Troy&#8217;s approach to what Romney should say is a good one. I also agree with Ashton that Romney, alas, is always going to have a tough time making that sort of case, because experientially and temperamentally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3109,24,3026,3285],"class_list":["post-12648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-ashton","tag-obama","tag-romney","tag-troy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12649,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12648\/revisions\/12649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}