Monday, August 27, 2012

2012 as 2004

This race reminds me more and more of 2004, with the party roles reversed. A rich, awkward, uninspiring candidate running as the opposite of the incumbent president (ie making the race a referendum - though it seems Romney is moving away from this).

A younger, relatively untested, more base-inspiring running-mate. The challenger is more about his biography and has only vague or unformed plans (Kerry was a real war veteran who could fix Iraq and Romney is the businessman who can save the economy).

The main difference is that Kerry wasn’t proposing to implement a far-far-left government, as Romney is.

Anyway, some splendid similarities.

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