Mitt Romney, retro-conservative | Michael Cohen

In 2008, Obama won the presidential election with the promise of "change." Romney hopes to win in 2012 promising to return. Can it work?

Four years ago, when a young upstart U.S. senator from Illinois has asked the presidency, there was a general idea that defines his campaign: change. This all purpose shirts printed words and iconic lawn posters simple, but the culmination of campaign speech rhetoric ("We are the change that we expected"), and has even been used as the domain name of the elected president Transition - change.gov. the same face of Barack Obama - as the first African American to seek the highest office in the nation - was the epitome of political transformation in the United States

Mitt Romney and the Republican Party also speaks a lot about change - but not in the sense of its possibility, but its toxic effect. In the direction of Romney and his Republican allies, "change" is at the heart of all that ails the United States today. As he likes to tell his audience at the highest point of their speech strain

"President Obama said he wants to transform America. You do not want to transform America."

not necessarily unusual for a candidate to insist on a "return to normal." It was the promise of the famous Republican Senator Warren Harding in 1920, which came after eight years of vigorous and dislocation progressivism, both at home and abroad. This is the footprint for Republican politicians - Nixon promised to speak for "not screaming and demonstrators" in 1968, the call George W. Bush to restore "honor and dignity" to the White House in 2000. Conservatism, according to Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "has no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention, but it is all memory "- and rarely more real and more subtle offering in this campaign cycle. If 2008 was the change (Obama) v over the same (McCain). 2012 is more of the same ( Obama) v. the restoration of a bygone era

"The president [...] has spent the last four years, the foundation of a new government-centered society," said Romney. "I'm going to spend the next four years to rebuild the foundations of a society of equality, run by people and free enterprise. " In fact, things are so bad with Obama "change" President Romney warned that "we are just inches away from ceasing to be a free economy."

In short, a Romney presidency means less spending, less Obama-style "socialism" under Obamacare least a welfare state, less people relying on government checks "". And more ... "Freedom". But more importantly, it would mean the resumption of the political agenda of the Obama presidency and go back to a time when the government lacked the path of market economy, the private sector and entrepreneurship United States. This is the heart of the message of the Romney campaign. In fact, it is your

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(although this has never really existed in the halcyon Current USA).

• Those seeking a political vision for the country you want to look elsewhere. Romney policy proposals (other than the usual litany tired of Republicans and taxes lower, less regulation, less expenses) are difficult to identify. Their website is a tribute to the vagueness and ambiguity policy. Very deliberately, there is no large-scale proposal for the federal government to push unemployment or expand health care coverage (if Obamacare is actually repealed) or strengthen the education system. Again, this is not a coincidence. For many Americans, Romney rhetoric insistence that responsibility to all 50 states and reduce the federal government's involvement in the lives of Americans is what makes his presidency an attractive possibility.
• But less important than policy proposals (or lack thereof) is the wording of Romney "anti-change" agenda. Read between the lines and that Romney is really preach an ideology preservatism and restoration -. "Things used to be" the nostalgia of

fears of progress and the fetishization of an idealized past that Romney plays go well beyond the economy, but with greater social and cultural. In his recent book on the rise of the Tea Party movement, Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson, note that in interviews with members of the Tea Party, which are rarely, if ever, heard economic concerns, but rather the "nightmare of social disintegration ". According to Skocpol and Williamson, who spoke with "fear that their children do not grow up fishing in rivers or know what it felt safe returning home late at night." Other "spoke of changes are taken from playgrounds to meet safety standards picky, and the school suspended for knives. "For them, a message is catnip nostalgia politics.

In this sense, it is difficult not to see the recent quarrel birth control and religious freedom, GOP strident anti-immigration, reflecting the generalized allergy to changing society . It is also impossible to ignore the issue of race in these debates. Since the end of 1960, the GOP appeal to voters has been directly and indirectly targeted racial fears (and, to a lesser extent, racial hatred).

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