Posted on 01/27/2011 11:25:56 PM PST by pissant
Over at NRO's The Corner, Robert Costa draws our attention to a Boston Globe story on Mitt Romney's interview with Sean Hannity last night.
I was struck by one of the quotes Costa highlighted concerning Romney's position on the merits of a prospective GOP presidential hopeful having a background in business:
I don't know who all is going to get in the race, but I do believe that it would be helpful if at least one of the people who's running in the Republican field had extensive experience in the private sector - in small business, in big business.
Somehow I don't think Romney was referring to Herman Cain.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Cain is looking better every day.
He forgot to mention one who also has “extensive experience” in the Healthcare field as well. ROFL
Herman Cain does.
Who cares what Romney has to say besides the Bush family?
Well, I guess he’ll be endorsing Gov Palin then. After all she owned and ran a small business, and is also invovled in a commercial fishing operation.
Maybe the next time she’s on Hannity she can tell him that she thinks it will be helpful if the GOP nominee didn’t sign a govt-run health care bill hailed as the model for Obamacare full of mandates and fines. Maybe it would be helpful if the GOP nominee wasn’t an independent during the Reagan era. Maybe it would be helpful if the GOP nominee didn’t have experience in laying people off in the private sector.
In my opinion the GOP hopeful should have extensive experience not being Mitt Romney.
...extensive experience legislating that Citizens be forced to buy health insurance...
Well one thing Cain has over Romney is that he did not sign Romney Care in to law.
Well, I guess he’ll be endorsing Gov Palin then. After all she owned and ran a small business, and is also invovled in a commercial fishing operation.
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Yes, and what’s more private sector than selling hundreds of thousands of a self-made commodity, namely books.
I doubt Cain is going anywhere, but I betcha Romney will try to spin his time in private equity as both big-business and small-business experience at the same time.
If you like Scott Brown you’ll love Romney! RINO losers!
Vote for Romney, Huckle, Nute, and get four more years of Barry!
I can’t say that I agree with that. Private Sector experience may or may not be successful Executive experience.
I really can’t get my head around Donald Trump or even worse, Jeffery Immelt in the office of POTUS. I like the thoughts of a Boss who flies a little closer to the ground.
Herman Cain.
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006
"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005
Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>
"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006
It’s particularly helpful if you had a guy with such business acumen that he wouldn’t even say boo to keep his former company from partnering with the communist Chinese firm in purchasing the company that does security work for the DOD.
Or...a guy with such business acumen that, when his company buys the company that carries the Rush Limbaugh show....that the company starts losing money and ends up having to dump nearly half of the company’s employees.
How do you lose money when you own the Rush Limbaugh Show???
That is not Business Acumen....that is stupidity
Give it up....Marco Rubio is NOT A CONSERVATIVE
He just dumped the Tea Party!!! And he supports Illegal Alien Amnesty and Cap And Trade
Do some research on your RINO
Romney isn’t even a RINO he is a democrat.
RomneyCare.... Romneyprogressivedemocrat
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