{"id":6104,"date":"2012-11-10T00:55:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T05:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=6104"},"modified":"2012-11-10T00:55:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T05:55:50","slug":"what-good-are-republicans-if-they-cant-protect-us-from-class-warfare-jim-powell-cato-institute-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/10\/what-good-are-republicans-if-they-cant-protect-us-from-class-warfare-jim-powell-cato-institute-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"What Good Are Republicans if They Can&#039;t Protect Us from Class Warfare? &#124; Jim Powell &#124; Cato Institute: Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Powell of the Cato Institute gives his view on why Romney lost the election:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color:#ccccff;\">\n<p>Romney lost for several reasons. The bulk of his primary advertising seems to have been spent attacking opponents, rather than defining himself, with the consequence that by the time the primaries were over, his reputation was a blank slate as far as the general public was concerned \u2014 an irresistible target for Obama&#8217;s early advertising blitz that defined him as an out-of-touch rich guy who destroyed American jobs. Romney was on the defensive from the get-go&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/www.cato.org\/publications\/commentary\/what-good-are-republicans-they-cant-protect-us-class-warfare'>What Good Are Republicans if They Can&#039;t Protect Us from Class Warfare? | Jim Powell | Cato Institute: Commentary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Powell of the Cato Institute gives his view on why Romney lost the election: Romney lost for several reasons. The bulk of his primary advertising seems to have been spent attacking opponents, rather than defining himself, with the consequence that by the time the primaries were over, his reputation was a blank slate as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/10\/what-good-are-republicans-if-they-cant-protect-us-from-class-warfare-jim-powell-cato-institute-commentary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Good Are Republicans if They Can&#039;t Protect Us from Class Warfare? &#124; Jim Powell &#124; Cato Institute: Commentary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,34],"tags":[2541,2988],"class_list":["post-6104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-us-canada-countries-regions","tag-obama","tag-romney"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What Good Are Republicans if They Can&#039;t Protect Us from Class Warfare? &#124; Jim Powell &#124; Cato Institute: Commentary - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Good Are Republicans if They Can&#039;t Protect Us from Class Warfare? &#124; Jim Powell &#124; Cato Institute: Commentary - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jim Powell of the Cato Institute gives his view on why Romney lost the election: Romney lost for several reasons. 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