The truth is, both Romney and Obama are rich, by the standards of ordinary people: Romney is a millionaire; Obama is a millionaire. Romney has many more millions, but they both have more money than most people will ever see, or possibly dream of.
In my view, Romney should be utterly unapologetic: “Sure, I’m rich, and he’s rich too. We’ve both been successful. The difference is, I want to help create the conditions in which you can be as successful as possible too. He’s holding you back, and the whole country back.
“No matter who wins — President Obama or me — he and I will live very well. We have plenty of money. But the country at large — that’s another story.”
Now, when you’re unapologetic, you don’t have to be obnoxious. Romney is good at that: being unapologetic without being obnoxious. May he continue, through to November.
On the realities of MSM bias:
Last week, I talked about the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and his revelations to Edward Klein, the former editor of The New York Times Magazine who has authored a book on President Obama.
Wright says that a close friend of Obama’s, Eric Whitaker, offered him what amounted to a bribe: $150,000 if he would keep his mouth shut until after the 2008 election.
I ask you again: What if a minister in a Republican president’s past had said this? Wouldn’t the mainstream media be devoting full time to this story? Wouldn’t every cover of Time and Newsweek be about it? Every hour of 60 Minutes, every Sunday until as long as it took? Planes would stop flying, birds would stop chirping, the earth would stop spinning around the sun until the story were nailed down.
But the interest of the mainstream media in Obama and Wright is zilch. From these media outlets, silence.
Conservatives are often accused of making too much of media bias. Maybe we do, sometimes. But maybe, sometimes, we make too little of it. Complaints about media bias are supposed to be uncouth. But media bias itself — that is worse.
I’ll make the world a deal: Reduce the bias, and I’ll complain less. Until then, I will point out that there is indeed a gross imbalance.
This is controversial, but it's a gem nonetheless:
Years ago, I noticed something about liberals, and it is quite rude to point out: Often, their views seem to be those of children. Views we all once had, but that some of us outgrew. “Take from the rich and give to the poor.” “If you’re nice to dictators, they will be nice to you.” “Crime is a response to injustice.” “Because guns hurt people, people shouldn’t have guns.” “Drilling for oil is mean to the earth.” Etc., etc.
It has sometimes seemed to me that becoming a conservative is simply a matter of growing up. There is scarcely any view in the Democratic national platform that I did not hold until I turned about 19. A great deal of liberalism strikes me as not just mistaken but immature.
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