What Bruce Rauner Can Teach His Fellow Republicans
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 9th, 2014 12:08 am by HL
What Bruce Rauner Can Teach His Fellow Republicans
Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics
See if this script sounds familiar: An incumbent Democrat with sagging approval ratings and a sluggish economy runs for re-election against a wealthy Republican businessman. The Republican is slimed as a greedy “vulture capitalist” who wants to give tax breaks to his billionaire buddies while shafting the middle class. The Republican describes the Democrat as a career politician whose lack of private-sector experience gives him no clue how to create jobs except by feeding the maw of Big Government. That was the 2012 presidential campaign. It’s also the 2014 Illinois…