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- iHaveNet.com: Politics
by Simon Rosenberg
Every day the
Straying into social and cultural issues is dangerous territory for the
This election will not be about what either party has done but about what they hope to do now to get the economy going again and make the world safer and better than it is today. The current Republican debate should not leave the party optimistic that it has a strong argument on these essential matters heading into Election 2012. Mitt Romney's main arguments are little different from the ones advanced by George W. Bush, which are widely understood to have failed. Tax cuts for the wealthy did not bring about a strong and healthy economy, just as a foreign policy that relied heavily on expensive and risky military interventions and global unilateralism did not produce the gains in security the costs of such efforts should have yielded. Listening to the likely
But perhaps that is why the
For on the two issues that will define 2012 -- foreign and economic policy -- Republicans' current batch of arguments simply is inadequate for the complex and vital moment in history we find ourselves in. And until they fix that, they should not expect to be able to make up the ground they've lost against President Obama and the Democrats in the past few months.
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