richardhutnik said:
Just looking at the narrative that is being spun. Put this into Google: Obama Carter . If you do that, you will find articles like these: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obama-klein-axelrod-emanuel/2012/06/11/id/441920 http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/08/07/obama-is-jimmy-carter-20-56179038/
That is the narrative trying to be spun. Obama is a failure the way Carter was. For this to work, Mitt Romney would have to be Reagan. So that is why the question is to be asked. If Obama is Carter, then what makes Romney Reagan. |
You seem to be missing the point of those articles. Carter wasn't defined by Reagan, he was defined by his ineffectiveness as well as his naivity. Carter is widely considered a failed president. These articles are talking about Obama's failures and how they resemble Carter. I don't see how Romney has to be the same as Reagan for that analogy to work.
edit: However, I guess I will bite. If you wanted to compare Romney to Reagan there are some similiarities.
1. They both started out their political careers as liberals and gravitated to be more conservative over time.
2. They were both governors of more liberal states.
3. They both lost the first time they ran for president
4. They both ran/running similar platforms (reduce taxes, less government, states rights, strong military)
5. They both ran against an incumbent president with approval ratings below 50%
Of course, there are plenty of differences as well, but if somebody were trying to do a vague analogy to a past president like you are trying to do, there is certainly support for it.
