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Not out in public.
Mitt Romney on Wall Street and inequality - YouTube
Why not? Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
But this isnt the first time a potential GOP'er slipped up and told the truth...and was punished for it:
âQuiet Roomsâ and Republican Class War -- Daily Intel
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So...Where are these quiet rooms? And why only discuss economic disparities there?
Mitt Romney on Wall Street and inequality - YouTube
Why not? Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
But this isnt the first time a potential GOP'er slipped up and told the truth...and was punished for it:
âQuiet Roomsâ and Republican Class War -- Daily Intel
During the 2000 Republican presidential nomination, John McCain opened up a brief violent fissure by assailing George W. Bushs plan to cut taxes. McCain began by arguing that it was more prudent to use the temporary budget surplus to reduce the national debt, but he soon began making the case in moral terms, citing the widening gap between rich and poor and insisting it was wrong to cut taxes for the rich. Right-wingers were apoplectic, and even McCains GOP allies were shaken. Before that moment, McCain had been a largely conventional conservative with a handful of apostasies, and his campaign little more than an irritant. His populist opposition to the Bush tax cuts marked him as a full-fledged heretic and united the party Establishment against him in full fury.
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The GOP Establishments deepest and most recurrent fear is an open debate over economic class. This is not a debate they feel they can win even among Republican voters, a majority of whom actually favor higher taxes on the rich. Romneys assertion yesterday that economic inequality should not be discussed, or should only be mentioned in quiet rooms, is a too-frank expression of the GOP elites actual belief that the issue must be kept out of political debate.
So...Where are these quiet rooms? And why only discuss economic disparities there?