Election, or ransom note?

America’s top CEOs have decided Mitt Romney has to win in the upcoming presidential election. (AP Photo)

America’s top CEOs have decided Mitt Romney has to win. Not out of any party loyalty but because of the nature of today’s ruthless politics.

This comes from a CEO and Philanthropist by the name of Miles Nadal, who was at a conference with his fellow CEOs and he asked them: What needs to happen in November for you CEOS to start spending money again?

And he went on MSNBC to spell it out:

“They said the best thing for business would be a Republican landslide. You needed something to unlock the gridlock,” said Nadal.

And according to a piece in the Washington Post, the CEOs thinking goes like this: with the parties at each others throats, nobody is making any decisions, which means in 2013, the Bush tax cuts will expire — sucking money out of middle class pockets, and huge government spending cuts will kick in — throwing a million additional people out of work — and Republicans will refuse to raise the debt ceiling again, terrifying the credit markets.

The only way to stop this nightmare is to elect Mr. Romney because while the GOP might be willing to let all this happen to a Democratic president, they would NEVER let it happen to a Republican president.

With a Republican in charge they would do what it took to create jobs even if it meant more debt, and the CEO’s could finally spend all that money they’re sitting on.

What this piece is actually saying is that we don’t face an election so much as a ransom note: That there are politicians ruthless enough to deliberately tank the economy unless the voters put them in charge, and unless we want another recession, that’s exactly what we’d better do. How does that chant go? Oh yeah. “This is what democracy looks like!”