Huckabee criticizes Romney's business past before Fla. debate

Herald Tribune ^ | January 24, 2008 | CURT ANDERSON

[Plutarch]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee criticized rival Mitt Romney's past as a venture capitalist Thursday, saying some workers lost their jobs as a result.

In 1983, Romney founded Bain Capital, a firm that developed a reputation for turning around ailing companies and earned him millions of dollars. Asked about Romney's experience, Huckabee said the former Massachusetts governor's success came at the expense of workers.

"If that's the turnaround, a lot of Americans would not want to see their lives turned around like that," the former Arkansas governor told reporters before running with a group of supporters about four miles along sun-drenched Fort Lauderdale beach.

Romney defended the takeovers during a Fox News interview on Sunday: "We grew jobs quite dramatically in many settings. But oftentimes, when an enterprise is in real trouble, you have to try and cut back to save it."

The experience made Romney better suited to lead the country out of its economic slowdown, Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said Thursday.

"Hard decisions had to be made, but the goal was always to restore fiscal health," he said.

Huckabee's criticism comes as Romney has emphasized his business experience on the campaign trail and tried to paint himself as the candidate who can fix Washington and repair the U.S. economy.

"There are a lot of people who are losing their jobs. They want to know what are we going to do to bring jobs to America, not what are we going to do to bring huge amounts of capital to a few and a huge job loss to a whole lot of Americans," Huckabee told reporters after completing his run...[snip]

[dforest]

What did Huck profess he has done for workers other than supplying Tyson with illegal aliens?

[Brilliant]

I want a President who will fire people, Huck.

[NeoCaveman]

Does Huck serve a purpose other than being McCain’s attack dog and surrogate?

[Mach5]

Class warfare coming from Huck. That’s a conservative strategy, isn’t it FReepers?

[Domandred]

Lots of people. Preferably mostly in worthless government sector jobs.

[1Old Pro]

Huck is such a fraud, what a nasty man.

[mwl1]

How many payrolls has Huck met without relying on state taxpayer public funds.

None.

Same for McCain.

[sodpoodle]

So - in a Huckabee world - a company goes belly up and all its workers lose their jobs is OK? But if someone pulls a company out of trouble and saves some jobs - that’s unfair?

Huck is a schmuck!

[egginanest]

Apparently Huck’s newest tactic is to promise a squirrel in every popcorn popper......

[mnehring]

Jeeze, what a bunch of nerve. Every business hires and fires, sometimes you have to make cut backs for the greater good. (trim in one place to keep the whole moving.)
-1 for Huck

[coramdeo]

I want a President who will fire people, Huck.

If you look at the net jobs created by a company like Bain, its huge. This is, of course, more of the typical anti-capitalist populist nonsense the Huckabee thinks passes as an economic policy. I hope Romney lays into him during the debate with some facts - which Huck will then whine is a negative attack.

[papasmurf]

Huckabee; Not good news for the GOP or the country.

Huckabee Caught Lying
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1925943/posts?page=1

Huckabee Begs Arkansas Legislature for Tax Increase in May of 2003:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaJW7nXw30A

Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee Calls Immigration Reform Legislation Racist, Un-Christian [Update]
http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/000718.html

AG questions immigration scholarship bill
http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2005/03/11/News/318458.html

Immigration bill un-Christian, anti-life, governor says
http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2005/01/28/News/316347.html

Mike Huckabee disses Americans, Mexicans, promotes illegal immigration
http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/005609.html

Dump the Huck He’s not VPOTUS material.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzNiY2M5NzIxZDJlMDUxNzUwYmQ4ZDU5ZDAzY2U3YWU=

Christians Need To Beware Of Mike Huckabee
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/cbarchive_20071102.html

[longtermmemmory]

Huckabee feels comfortable in “blue zones” of florida.

that was ground zero for the 2000 presidential election.

Guess huckabee does not like profit.

[spectre]

I'd like to see Romney take a good punch at Huckabees glass jaw..

KA-POW!!

[papasmurf]

In his own words: Mitt Romney 1.0
Conscience of a Conservatarian ^ | November 11, 2007 | Josh Painter

Posted on 11/11/2007 8:26:20 AM EST by Josh Painter

"My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses." - Source

"In my view, it is not a good idea to go into a [Contract With America] like what was organized by the Republican Party in Washington, laying out a whole series of things which the party said, 'These are the thing's we're going to do.' I think that's a mistake." - Source

"Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush." - Source

“I remember in my earliest political experience my father fighting to keep the John Birch Society from playing too strong a role in the Republican Party. He walked out of the Republican National Convention in 1964, when Barry Goldwater said, ‘Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.’ Because he saw that as a tacit approval of the effort the John Birch Society was making to influence the Republican Party. I think that extremists who would force their views on the party and try to shape the party are making a mistake." - Source

"We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts. I support them. I won't chip away at them. I believe they help protect us and provide for our safety." - Source

"Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts. These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people." - Source

"I don't think [The Brady Bill's mandated waiting period] will have a massive effect on crime but I think it will have a positive effect." - Source

"I don't line up with the NRA." - Source

"I've been a hunter pretty much all my life." - Source

"I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have, since the time when my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a U.S. Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years, we should sustain and support it. I sustain and support that law and the right of a woman to make that choice." - Source

"I think it would be a positive thing to have women have the choice of taking morning-after pills….I would favor having it available." - Source

"There will be children born to same-sex couples, and adopted by same-sax couples, and I believe that there should be rights and privileges associated with those unions and with the children that are part of those unions." - Source

"All people should be allowed to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation." - Source

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1 posted on 11/11/2007 8:26:21 AM EST by Josh Painter

[Josh Painter]

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[tortdog]

He’s an idiot with no business sense. It’s better to cut workers and save a company than to keep them all on the payroll and then close the doors.

What good does that do anyone?

[Plutarch]

Maybe Huckabee can hit Romney for cutting 603 jobs from the Massachusetts state bureaucracy during his term.

[streetpreacher]

Hey, my cost of buying chicken nuggets went down significantly so that’s a chicken feather in Huck’s cap!

[Antoninus]

If you believe a corporate elite insider like Flip Romney is really going to secure the border, stem the flow of cheap labor, and send the illegals home, tu eres loco!