Mitt Romney, from Saturday night's GOP primary debate: We don’t need– we don’t need folks who are lifetime– lifetime Washington people to– to– to get this country out of the mess it’s in. We need people from outside Washington. You hear this a lot, the idea that coming in as an outsider to shake up the Washington establishment is a good way to advance policy goals or solve political problems. Whatever the merits of it --- and it's pretty clear that there are advantages to be an insider and advantages to being an outsider, but not obvious that the latter outweigh the former --- I think it tends to obscure a pretty basic institutional reality in DC: the President, regardless of whether he's spent his life in the Senate or his life farming in rural Montana, is functionally an outsider during the time he is President.
In this world but not of this world
In this world but not of this world
In this world but not of this world
Mitt Romney, from Saturday night's GOP primary debate: We don’t need– we don’t need folks who are lifetime– lifetime Washington people to– to– to get this country out of the mess it’s in. We need people from outside Washington. You hear this a lot, the idea that coming in as an outsider to shake up the Washington establishment is a good way to advance policy goals or solve political problems. Whatever the merits of it --- and it's pretty clear that there are advantages to be an insider and advantages to being an outsider, but not obvious that the latter outweigh the former --- I think it tends to obscure a pretty basic institutional reality in DC: the President, regardless of whether he's spent his life in the Senate or his life farming in rural Montana, is functionally an outsider during the time he is President.