Economic Populism
Posted at 12:06am on Feb. 3, 2008 Stop It. Now.
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
Matt Welch is dead-on accurate and we really need to stop stigmatizing wealth creation in this election cycle. It is bad enough when those on the other side of the partisan divide do it but it was my understanding that Republicans would actually respect legitimate wealth creation by entrepreneurs. Alas, that does not appear to be the case for whatever goofy reason.
And yes, Senator McCain, we are looking at you. You are in the driver's seat, after all, in seeking the Republican Presidential nomination. You are supposed to defend capitalism and wealth creation. We know that you enjoy taking potshots at Mitt Romney because you don't like him but when those potshots entail unjustified critiques of capitalism, those of us on whom you would rely to help carry you through the general election with a strong Republican turnout begin to wonder whether it is all really worth the effort to do so.
Stop making us wonder whether we'd be better off if we would lose this election. Would you please?
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