Liberals, by and large, support a minimum wage hike. President Obama and Democrats have spent much of the year pushing the proposal amid Republican opposition.
So if the GOP’s most recent presidential nominee voices support for the Democratic position, which side do you think will be most enthused?
That is not a trick question.
After Mitt Romney called on his fellow Republicans this morning to back a minimum wage increase, the conservative writer Charles C.W. Cooke rightly identified the remarks as a political victory for Democrats.
Fair or not, someone like Mitt Romney saying that the minimum wage should be raised is a real coup for the Democrats.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 9, 2014
Half of his campaign was built around his business and economic acumen. What do conservatives say now: “he doesn’t know what he’s saying”?
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 9, 2014
That probably all seems pretty obvious. Both parties trumpet the other side’s apostasy when it serves them politically.
But former White House press secretary Dana Perino is nevertheless baffled by the reaction.
Perino even suggested on Friday night that liberals are somehow guilty of hypocrisy now that they’re celebrating Romney’s position on an issue that he waffled on during the 2012 campaign.
“I also love how the liberals who hated Mitt Romney so much because of his policies — what they said that he was only for the rich people — now they love him,” Perino said on Fox News.
In other news, New York Yankees fans now cheer for former Boston Red Sox outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury.
Dana Perino is and always has been an idiot.
Who is “they”?
Because I haven’t seen nor heard anyone proclaim their love for Mitt. In fact, most people I know are scratching their head wondering why the “liberal” media is so quick to put a mic in his face asking him questions about issues like he’s a fucking statesman now. I keep wishing he’d go the hell away.
No one is going to accuse Perino of being the sharpest knife in the drawer, but this is a product of how conservatives really think along totally tribal lines. She doesn’t understand what “policy” is, despite using the word. Did she understand the concept, it totally explains what is mystifying her.
She doesn’t disagree with liberal policies, she hates liberals because they are the other tribe. How can they now support something Romney said (because that must mean they love him)? Don’t they understand Romney’s still from the other tribe?
We are in a post-policy political world with Republicans. I don’t recall who I first heard articulating this concept, but it’s a mistake trying to understand their positions in any other context, because without that realization, they are just nonsensical.
I am constantly amazed that this woman was actually the Press Secretary to a US President. She actually gives blonds everywhere a bad name (except of course for that brainiac E Hasselbeck…)
“Dana Perino Is Confused.”
That’s enough, everything after that statement is just self-evident.
I despise her easily as much as I despise (and wish a lot of misfortune) on “C” Cupp.