“I’m afraid that some of our Democratic Party friends don’t have that vision like we do,” Romney said. “They look beyond the early days of America to the days of Europe of the past and think of big government and big brother and big spending and big taxation.” ~Iowa Independent

Well, the great Transformer needs to make up his mind–is Clinton harking back to the Europe of the past, or does she represent the hated French of the present?  Does he actually know anything about Europe? 

If the latter, this would be a French electorate that just elected a President who is in many respects to the left of Clinton, or at least barely to her right when it comes to the question of the state’s involvement in the economy.  If the former, then this means that Clinton is in favour of a much-reduced state that deferred to local councils and parlements and recognised all manner of “feudal” rights–that is the Europe of “the past” that existed “before days of early America” that Romney confuses so readily with the social democratic state of the 20th and 21st centuries.  The size of government under absolutist governments was amazingly small.  Taxation was on the whole lower than it has been in this country for eighty years.  Absolutist rulers could run a “big brother” operation only in their wildest dreams.  For Romney, though, anything European is fair game, no matter how stupid it makes him look to criticise it.

Undettered by anything resembling common sense, Romney continued:

Specifically, he attacked Clinton for seeking to move the nation toward what Romney called a “shared-responsibility, we’re-all-in it-together society.”

Apparently, Romney believes is a no-responsibility, dog-eat-dog society in which we owe nothing to anyone.  That is what you get from that particular “person of faith.”