Food for thought… (I think I cited this one before, but it applied again…)
“All extremism is toxic”
So, keep your balance, my friends…
- Anonymous
So, keep your balance, my friends…
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
0011 - 07NOV2012 - "The Day After"
Politics... Here is my final assessment on this past presidential election (like if it would change anything, right?): The Good Old Party, as we all have known it, must change in order to come back to a place where it can provide a viable alternative for the majority and, as such, become majority again… IMHO, the Republican Party allowed some faction of its constituency to hijack the party and take it to a place (too far to the right) where it would not appeal to most of us… And once there, they took quite a formidable candidate – Mitt Romney – a man with a Midas touch to turn things around, one of the most successful business-men that has been a presidential candidate in the last 40 years, a moderate and compassionate man who knew, viscerally, that he needed everybody on-board (diversity) in order for anything to work; they forced him to go so far to the right and sound so sectarian to win the Primaries (i.e. Severe Conservative and Self Deportation), that he could not recover; he could not convince people that he was not as extreme as he had sounded; he could not effectively come back to a more centrist – and natural for him - position thus appealing to more moderate voters without sounding to be too much of a flip-flopper… Mitt was dealt a horrible hand by his own Party! I hope this become a case study in future Political Sciences curricula…
Food for thought… (I think I cited this one before, but it applied again…)
Food for thought… (I think I cited this one before, but it applied again…)
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Miguel - hope you are well on this bright, sunny morning. I think Mitt's ideology would have given him problems in foreign policy and the proper roll of government, had he won. He puts too much stock in his own opinions and not enough in the views of others. As a 40 year federal employee, 30 of which were as a manager, I can tell you that government is not a business, in this way. While the government and business use similar methods for how to get things done, the manner in which government and business decide what needs to be done is very different. I'm not sure Mitt gets that. His CEO tendencies lead him to get input from his staff and then make decisions himself. In government you need to assess competing interests, help your constituencies find middle ground, and lead them to compromises that address the most critical needs. That's not Mitt's style. I think the best thing that could have happened to Mitt was not to win, as I think he does have a lot of expertise and is a decent man. I just don't think his views and government leadership are a good fit.
ReplyDeleteVery much looking forward to seeing you next month and hashing the election results out, over our favorite libations.