"Hillary as Mitt Romney" meme is straight out of the GOP playbook this season

[Tanuki]

Twice in the last couple of days I have seen posts in GD-P calling HRC our "version of Mitt Romney". The comparison is so odd that seeing it from two different low-posters aroused my curiosity about where it was really coming from, so I googled and found this gem. It really sheds light on numerous posts on DU lately:


"Forget about the Arkansas days, the small-bore scandals, her health care plan and most everything else from the 1990s. A consensus is forming within the Republican Party that the plan of attack against Hillary Clinton should be of a more recent vintage, rooted in her accumulation of wealth and designed to frame her as removed from the concerns of average Americans.

...... But interviews with GOP consultants, party officials and the largest conservative super PACs point to an emerging narrative of a wealthy, out-of-touch candidate who plays by her own set of rules and lives in a world of private planes, chauffeured vehicles and million-dollar homes.

The out-of-touch plutocrat template is a familiar one: Democrats used it to devastating effect against Republican Mitt Romney in 2012. While Hillary Clinton’s residences in New York and Washington may not have car elevators, there’s still a lengthy trail of paid speeches, tone-deaf statements about the family finances and questions about Clinton family foundation fundraising practices that will serve as cornerstones of the anti-Clinton messaging effort.

.......
The outlines of the effort to Mitt Romnify Hillary Clinton are still being sketched. Crossroads, the super PAC that spent $70 million in 2012 mostly on television ads attacking President Barack Obama, is in the middle of an extensive research project analyzing voters’ existing perceptions of Clinton and their reactions to a number of potential critiques. But the Republican National Committee has done focus groups that suggest Clinton is more vulnerable to charges of being imperious and bending the rules than anything else tested against her.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/gops-plan-attack-hillary-clinton-as-mitt-romney-116943#ixzz41SjSVHvr

[Thinkingabout]

1. Here is something strange, a claim if being FDR Democrats, FDR was one

Of the .1%, he was successful in getting SS passed, the New Deal and bringing this nation out of The Great Depression. He was president during WW II, if you are FDR Democrat then all has to be accepted. He came from wealth, Bill and Hillary Clinton did not. It is time to get past the 1% argument and look at the facts.

BTW, thanks for your post.

[brer cat]

2. The idea that all wealthy people

are greedy and self-serving is simply wrong. Some of the most compassionate and generous people I have known came from a background of family wealth. Our country has been well served by wealthy politicians such as FDR and the Kennedys. The flip side are the ones in poverty, poorly educated, lacking good job prospects who nevertheless vote republican because they don't want some "other" to get benefits. Ultimately it is the latter who do more damage because large numbers of them vote and keep republicans in power.

As to the OP, it is hard for me to see how Hillary could be painted as a Romney while running against "I'm sooo rich" Donald. They have succeeded in some strange framings before, but this one seems a real stretch.

[kjones]

5. Yeah, the response to my bringing that up before was pretty much "Boo, hiss!" nt

[book_worm]

3. It's a stupid comparison

HRC is a much better candidate and so much more qualified than Mittens.

[Tanuki]

4. I totally agree, which is why I got suspicious when I saw it twice

in two days. It seemed unlikely that two low posters would independently come up with something that far-fetched, and now we know that they didn't.

[Fla Dem]

6. The Bernie group is full of KKKarl Rove operatives, some from the 2008 election.

Even though some have an pre 2015 membership date, they are holdovers from the last 2 elections. They've infiltrated and will say anything so they don't have to go up against HRC in November. They want to drive a wedge between HRC and Sander's supporters. Mot of the Bernie supporters are long time DU members, but all you need is a handful of instigators to set the tone and get the rest worked up.

[UtahLib]

7. Odd to us but not actually surprising. nt