Why Romney’s Gaffe Might Not Matter – Garance Franke-Ruta – Politics – The Atlantic
As to the critical question of how the gaffe is playing in Iowa, driving back from Ames to Des Moines after the debate Thursday night I listened to a local right-wing talk-radio station that replayed most of the shouty exchange Romney had had with the hecklers, whom the radio host repeatedly pointed out belonged to a liberal Iowa advocacy group. The commentator basically presented Romney as a hero for his handling of them and blamed “the liberal media” for accepting the protestors at face value. The quote in question about corporations as people didn’t even come up.
This is one of those issues that really plants me in the liberal camp, I guess. I absolutely cannot get on board with a defense of the claim that a corporation should have the same legal rights as a person.
It’s not just absurd; it’s obscene. It requires making a “person” an abstract legal entity that does not necessarily have an existential status as a sentient life-form. From there it is possible to jigger all kinds of interesting exceptions to the definition of a “person.” It is a totally corrupted and deviant way of looking at the world.
Preach it my brother.
Woah! Agreeing with you on this makes me a liberal?
I guess politics really aren’t that important.
According to the “corporate Republicans” that I know, it’s a liberal idea to only acknowledge rights for real people.