The elites on Wall Street and in Washington D.C. thank you for falling into line and refraining from the difficult and unnecessary act of thinking for yourself.
Repo Men (Wall St. bankers and D.C. ruling class, “more than a few of them belong in prison.”)
Romneys ten biggest donor blocs include Goldman Sachs (his biggest No. 1, as always), Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase. Bains thrown a little goodwill money his way, too.
So, what does Wall Street want?
Heres what Wall Street doesnt want: It doesnt want to hear from Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann or even Newt Gingrich, or suffer any sort of tea-party populism. It wants you rubes to shut up about Jesus and please pay your mortgages. It doesnt want to hear from such traditional Republican constituencies as Christian conservatives, moral traditionalists, pro-lifers, or friends of the Second Amendment. It doesnt even want to hear much from the Chamber of Commerce crowd, because those guys are used-car dealers and grocery-store owners and for the most part strictly from hick, so far as Wall Street is concerned. Wall Street wants an administration and a Congress and a country that believes what is good for Wall Street is good for America, whether that is true or isnt. Wall Street doesnt want free markets it wants friends, favors, and fealty.
Theyre hoping that conservatives can be buffaloed with a bit of cheap free-market rhetoric into not noticing that something is excruciatingly amiss here. They are the repo men, headpiece filled with subprime-mortgage derivatives, and they are looking to repossess the Republican party they abandoned in 2008 (see Losing Gordon Gekko, National Review, March 9, 2009). Free-market, limited-government conservatives should be none too eager to welcome them back, nor should we let our natural sympathy with the profit motive blind us to the fact that a great many of them do not belong in the conservative movement, and that more than a few of them belong in prison.