Obama has fired his economic opening shots at Romney for what might be called "destructive capitalism," although Obama didn't use that term. I just made it up. Others have called it "vulture capitalism."
Anyway, Republicans are fighting back -- with some pretty heavy ammunition.
They called Obama a socialist all through the GOP primary season. Now Roger Ailes, creator and head of Fox News, says that Jon Stewart "admitted to me" once, over drinks in a bar, that he (Stewart) is a socialist. So there we have the war between the news moguls (no small coincidence that Fox News is a favorite target of Stewart's biting satire).
Now Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is getting into the act of bitchiness. In a Capitol Hill press conference today, the embalmed one told reporters:
President Obama is attacking capitalism.
I do think that it's interesting to note that the whole notion of our success and of capitalism seems to be under attack by this administration across the board, not just in the campaign, but through the actions of the government itself. . . . I think the view of this administration is that if you're making a profit you must be up to no good. You must be either mistreating your employees or cheating your customers or both.
This is certainly the most anti-business administration since the Carter years. At least you can say this for President Carter: He was largely incompetent. This administration has actually done a lot of damage.
Ouch !!! Well, I guess if you have no economic solution to offer, you fall back on being bitchy.
So the right-wing message mavens have decided that the coordinated lede for the week is to be "Democrats are waging war against Capitalism." "Waging war on religion" a few weeks back didn't have much traction -- except in the Kool Aid crowd, who will oppose Obama, no matter what is said by anyone. It's also an attempt to take the spotlight away from their own "war against women."
Ralph
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