{"id":12656,"date":"2012-01-12T15:15:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T20:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12656"},"modified":"2012-01-12T15:39:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T20:39:48","slug":"reverse-class-warfare-wont-work-for-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12656\/reverse-class-warfare-wont-work-for-romney\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverse Class Warfare Won&#8217;t Work for Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following our recent blog symposium on Mitt Romney&#8217;s shortcomings as an effective defender of market economics, this clip from his appearance yesterday on the Today Show is worth watching:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Fdj_7P2Do5M&amp;feature\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Fdj_7P2Do5M&amp;feature\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The problem with Romney&#8217;s &#8220;envy&#8221; approach is that it&#8217;s a mirror image of precisely the kind of class warfare he&#8217;s (rightly) accusing President Obama of. It&#8217;s just not going to hold water in a time of economic distress for any Republican &#8212; let alone a fantastically wealthy ex-businessman &#8212; to attempt to swat away his opponents by claiming they resent his wealth and that of those similarly situated. Romney should instead be making the case for broad-based prosperity &#8212; the sort of democratic capitalism <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12631\/can-romney-defend-democratic-capitalism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashton advocated yesterday<\/a>. Attacking the motives of his opponents instead of rebutting their assertions makes him seem both aloof and unprepared for the debate to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following our recent blog symposium on Mitt Romney&#8217;s shortcomings as an effective defender of market economics, this clip from his appearance yesterday on the Today Show is worth watching: \u00a0 The problem with Romney&#8217;s &#8220;envy&#8221; approach is that it&#8217;s a mirror image of precisely the kind of class warfare he&#8217;s (rightly) accusing President Obama of. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2034,1592,562,160],"class_list":["post-12656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-election","tag-business","tag-economics","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12656"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12661,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656\/revisions\/12661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}