THE PLANK DECEMBER 21, 2006
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Allow me to offer this contribution to the ongoing Mitt Romney ideological nostalgia game. It's from the October 8, 1994 Boston Globe:
Pledging to swing a hammer at the "glass ceiling" that impedes women's career advancement, Republican Senate nominee Mitt Romney yesterday proposed that all publicly traded companies be required to disclose data on what their female employees earn. Romney told an audience of 200 women at the Park Plaza Hotel that making public the number of women a firm employs and in what income categories they fall would let consumers reward those that treated women well and shun those that did not. Romney said similar statistics should be collected for minorities.
Somehow I suspect Romney won't be saying much about this in the coming months as he traipses through the hog farms of Iowa....
--Michael Crowley
2 comments
All these rational things that Romney used to say wouldn't have been such a big deal to the pre-Christianist GOP, would they? Reading these statements uttered by a mid-1990s Republican are like... I dunno, when they find the fly in the amber in that Mick Crichton book, right before the author goes into that lengthy fantasy about sodomizing a goat. This post describes a proposal that the govt compel disclosure, not that it impose requirements for how to hire and compensate people... and the live-and-let-live approach to gays was never a radical idea. It's sad to see how common sense is politically incorrect in today's GOP. Another example-- in David Halberstam's "The Next Century," he mentions, as an aside, how right George Bush Sr. and Dick Cheney were not to occupy Iraq, because we would have become hated occupiers. But saying that out loud was just not kosher in the period of the cult of personality. People were ridiculed and exiled from mainstream debate for saying that in the past 5 years.
- spoonman
December 21, 2006 at 5:15pm
There's also the news today that Romney was an independent in the early 90's, and voted for Massachusetts Democrat Paul Tsongas in the 1992 presidential primary. Somebody -McCain?- is really doing a thorough job on Romney. I'm starting to think he'll just sit the race out if it gets much worse.
- hustveit
December 21, 2006 at 5:46pm