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2016 Postmortem

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Proud Liberal Dem

(24,415 posts)
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 02:53 PM Mar 2012

So what is Romney's PLAN for America if elected POTUS? [View all]

I realize that this may seem like a trick question but after thinking about it but does anybody really know what he is proposing to do if elected POTUS- I mean other than more or less going right back to the usual Republican bromides of tax cuts for the wealthy, less regulation and oversight, pretty much repealing everything President Obama and the Democrats achieved from 2009-2011?

I have yet to hear any "bold" and/or "new" vision of what a Romney Presidency would look like from him and what he might offer the country (though maybe that is the whole point). The only thing that I've been able to figure out is that he thinks that Obama has done everything wrong and nothing right (like every single right-winger out there) and if elected would pretty much just do the complete opposite of whatever President Obama has done/is doing.

He's taken a lot of positions on a lot of things but nobody can know for sure whether or not he would actually enact what he *says* he supports but, frankly, it doesn't matter because he's going to have start running for re-election from day one and if he has a Republican Congress to work with, he will be under immense pressure to sign anything they send him. In that respect, he should be Grover Norquist's ideal candidate as he is such a "Tabula Rasa" that the Republican Congress should simply be able to hand him all of their "wildest dreams" legislation to be signed with no questions asked.

Have I missed something (re: Romney)?

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