Mitt Romney's Radicalism

readersupportednews.org, The Daily Beast by Carl Bernstein | Nov. 1, 2012 (News Analysis)
Pundits and voters persist in believing that Mitt Romney is a covert moderate. But as Carl Bernstein reports, it's far more likely he'll enact the Tea Party's far-right agenda.

Certainly those helping to drive the Tea Party agenda in Washington believe that in Romney--and his choice of Paul Ryan (philosophically one of their own) as his running mate--they have an ideal instrument to implement their agenda. "All we have to do is replace Obama. ... We are not auditioning for fearless leader," declared Grover Norquist at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February. Norquist, who has promulgated a no-tax-increase ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Nov 1, 2012 - 12:26 PM PDT
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 by Randy Morrow - Nov. 3, 2012

et the fact remains that the Republican ideas now ascendant in Washington would dismantle and transform social and economic policies that have been the basis of prevailing ... More »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Nov. 3, 2012

Depraved plunder, 101, enabled by a feckless mainstream media.

today’s Republican Party (and its Tea Party wing) represent the first bona fide radical political party to rise to dominance in Washington in nearly 100 years. More »

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