I write in regard to your astonishing Nov. 8 editorial advocating Mitt Romney as an adviser to the president, which sounded more like Fox News than The Boston Globe.
First, the electorate has just rejected Romney’s approach. As Obama pointed out, the right-wing, conservative brand of economics Romney espoused enthusiastically during the campaign is what led us to the recent disastrous recession.
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the electorate rejected Romney because they were afraid of losing their benefits, some people in this country have NO idea of our economic conditions, our nation security situation, only care about their own support, free birth control, amnesty for illegals, and then the young and naive. As for the fiscal crisis, is was caused by the housing bubble which was advocated by most democrats, check the record of President clinton. We would much rather have the government take care of us than, that's hurt Romney who was advocating personal responsibility.
@migh: how does your theory about Obama's supporters square with 66% of Belmont (median household income $95,377, 83.5% white) voting for Obama? Those numbers cannot possibly include many poor voters, many immigrant voters, or many voters of color. Not sure how many women who are getting "free" birth control (meaning included as part of routine preventative care in the health insurance they _pay_ for) could be in there, either. What you do have are affluent, college-educated people who know exactly what kind of governor Mr. Romney was. Educated voters who care about fairness and the middle class voted for Obama. No doubt poorer voters and women, voters of color and young voters did, too. But these are all people who care about their country and voted in good conscience for a leader they admire.
Belmont is apparently over-run with well-to-do liberals. There are such folks. It's called noblesse oblige.
Maybe offer Romney an ambassadorship to some place like Syria. He could buy up the place, drive them into bankruptcy, and then fire everybody, while raking in millions in unearned income.