Why the culture war is crushing Mitt Romney
DANA LIEBELSON
Why the culture war is crushing Mitt Romney
The GOP nominee has been tasked with espousing a party platform chock full of fringe social issues that are endangering his bid for the White House
POSTED ON OCTOBER 5, 2012, AT 6:15 AM
Watching the GOP lately, I am reminded of an ominous prediction Gerald Ford made almost nine years before he passed away. The former Republican president, who was unabashedly pro-abortion rights, said that if the party kept going down the ultra-conservative line on issues like abortion, it would not be able to elect another Republican president.
"The American people are basically middle-of-the-road moderates," he told The New York Times.
Here in 2012, Ford's words are coming back to haunt Mitt Romney. Although this is supposed to be a "jobs" election, the GOP has a side agenda that has nothing to do with the economy: Transforming modern-day American society into the 1950's TV show Mad Men.
People-pleasing Romney already has to convince American voters that while he's not worried about the 47 percent, his tax-cuts-for-the-rich economic plan will somehow improve all of America. But the GOP is also asking Romney to win a culture war, and they've armed poor Mitt with a water gun.
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