Archive for January 1st, 2008
Power Point mentality
David Brooks has been hanging out at the New York Times for too long. He’s got an interesting column today, on the unelectability of Mitt Romney. The gist in unexceptionable, or would be for a Timesman: Mitt Romney has too much of a “Power Point” mentality; he’s too much a conventional Republican in the Reagan mold, etc. etc., world without end, amen.
One line caught my attention, however, from Mr. Brooks: “The general public prefers Democratic approaches on health care, corruption, the economy and Iraq by double-digit margins.”
So far, on health care, this means socialized medicine by another name. My sense is that the actual “general public,” or at least those who vote, will not be so enamored with this “Democratic approach” once they know the costs.
As for corruption, the Democratic approach so beloved of the public: is this the approach of a John Earmark Murtha or William Freezer Burn Jefferson? The real point being, there isn’t much daylight Democratic corruption and Republican corruption.
This brings us to the last, and funniest: what, exactly, is the Democratic approach on Iraq? Good luck on finding out what this might be, beyond cut and run and pretend we’ve no interests in the Middle East. Let the record show, however, that Democrats, in charge in Congress for the past year, did nothing about Iraq. Zero. Unless, somehow, the “general public” thinks that a lot of talk is doing something.
