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Mitt Romney is Running for Bush's Third Term | Crooks and Liars

In Las Vegas last week, Mitt Romney looked to his own biography in proposing a new requirement for anyone seeking the presidency:

"In addition to the age of the president and the citizenship of the president and the birthplace of the president being set by the Constitution, I'd like it also to say that the president has to spend at least three years working in business before becoming president of the United States."

Of course, if Mitt Romney had his way, the President should also have an MBA from the prestigious Harvard Business School. He ought to have made millions in the private sector and earned notoriety for running a high-profile sports enterprise. A scion of a proud Republican family, the occupant of the White House should promise massive, Treasury-draining tax cuts which would deliver the lion's share of their benefits to the very richest Americans, himself and his family included. The President should also nevertheless pledge to balance the budget even while boosting defense spending. And in his ideal America, he would like to privatize Social Security and leave Americans to fend for themselves in the private health insurance marketplace.

[Nesster]

Guess that leaves out the first and greatest Republican President of them all - unless you count his lawyering as being in business. And the second greatest, Theodore Roosevelt, unless you count his time ranching in the badlands as being in business. (BTW, Mitt did not specify one had to actually succeed in business, which lets in Bush Jr.) Eisenhower's a RINO since he was nearly a life long government employee, and his one private sector experience was running an Ivy League college. Ronnie might also be a RINO as he was an union man.

[GeneV]

That business background would put Mitt in the company of such bright Republican lights as Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover and G.W. Bush.