Salon: Steve Kornacki: 'Sorry, It’s Not Mitt Romney’s Fault'

Source:Salon Magazine.

"The election is just over a month away, and only now is a leading conservative publication stepping forward to tell Mitt Romney that the premise on which he’s built his entire presidential campaign is wrong.

The Romney campaign’s assumption has been that economic anxiety will have swing voters in a firing mood in November, and that their desire to punish Barack Obama will push them into the GOP nominee’s column. But as a National Review editorial that went up last night points out:

What Romney has not done is address the major problem he has in making the case: the shadow of the George W. Bush years. Americans are more likely to blame Bush for the financial crisis that started on his watch than to blame Obama for the slow recovery from it. And even before the financial crisis, the last period of Republican governance was not especially good for America’s middle class.

It’s a valid assessment. Plenty of evidence is now available that Obama is benefiting politically from the public’s memory of the 2008 meltdown that played out on Bush’s watch, with voters willing to weigh current economic conditions against the catastrophe that was in full swing as Obama took office."

Source:Salon Magazine

Wow, the second time in the last two weeks I'm sort of standing up for Mitt Romney. But its true, Mitt is 20-30 years past his time as far as the Republican Party as it stands today, is not the Republican Party that Mitt grew up with and was a member of as a young man and as an early middle age man and someone who was finally elected to public office in his mid fifties in 2002. 

What's called the Republican Party today, (that in many cases doesn't even believe in American Republicanism) is now a Far-Right party, that sees Americans of today as Un American, if they don't look at the world the way they do and people who don't belong. 

In America, the so-called Republican Party, is no longer a big tent party, that can win all across the country. It instead is essentially made up of people, who are aren't accustomed to being with people who aren't from their community and see these people as Un American. And Mitt finds himself having to try to appease to these people, while looking sane and tolerant to the rest of the country and it's just something that can't be done. Because the fringe he needs to vote for him, are completely different from the rest of the country and its sort of an either-or proposition. You can't please both.