It all comes full circle.
Last September, Elizabeth Warren explained the role of public institutions in creating a society that allows American businesses to thrive. A video of the comments went viral, and soon after, President Obama echoed the sentiment.
Last week, Mitt Romney’s campaign, hoping that voters are fools, made the case that American businesses thrive on their own without public institutions, and to believe otherwise is to be “foreign” and hostile towards free enterprise. And this week, Scott Brown’s campaign, hoping voters in Massachusetts are extremely dumb, brings the smear back around to Elizabeth Warren.
In his new web video, Brown reassures, “I will never demonize you as business leaders and business owners.” Can he find anyone who actually demonizes business leaders? Well, no, but if you take rivals’ comments out of context and cynically hope that voters are deeply ignorant, Brown and Romney — who share campaign strategists — hope the lie will stick anyway.
Greg Sargent calls the larger smear “ridiculous.”
The Republican argument — Romney’s argument — is partly that Obama’s active ill will towards business owners and entrepreneurs is helping stall the recovery, so you should replace him with a president who wants people to succeed.









