Posted on 09/12/2011 5:29:47 AM PDT by newzjunkey
He may have dropped out of the running for the presidency, but Tim Pawlenty isn't sitting on the sidelines - the former presidential candidate has endorsed Mitt Romney for president...
"There's one candidate in this race who's unmatched in his skills and experience and talent when it comes to turning around this economy and growing jobs, and that's Mitt Romney," Pawlenty said. "I believe he's going to be our party's nominee, and I think he's going to be a transformational and great president for this country."
Romney's private sector experience, Pawlenty said, was a deciding factor in his endorsement, along with his policy experience.
"Uniquely, Mitt Romeny, in this race, has a depth and scope of private sector experience - as an entrepreneur, as somebody who's invested in, and started, and grown businesses - and importantly, grown jobs," Pawlenty said. "His experience in the private sector amongst these candidates is unmatched." …
"I'm not going to consider being VP - I was down that path once before, with John McCain, and I'm not even going to consider that," Pawlenty said. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.blogs.foxnews.com ...
Interesting. It seems Pawlenty’s bete noir is also ‘getting in bed’ (so to speak) with Romney, to try to take down Perry. They’ve always said politics makes strange bedfellows.
The true colors finally show.
I have no plans whatsoever to vote for Romney in the primary, but if he wins the nomination (which I doubt), will vote for him in the general. That being said, even he would be better, and is hardly comparable to Obama. Not my first choice, but for sure not the worst alternative to BHO.
Romney may not pack his lunch, etc., as you set, but the companies he founded or co-founded are still in business and still hiring. By the thousands. I don’t care if he has ten multi-million dollar homes, a chauffeur in every city, and no clue as to how to boil water.
We can’t take away from him his ability as a businessman to see a market need and fill it. That alone would inform him first-hand of the tax, regulatory, environmental impact, and other governmental impediments to getting a business going, thus creating jobs, which is our biggest current domestic issue. His service in a Republican cabinet would be invaluable.
Bad choice, one that doesn’t reflect well on Pawlenty.
Sadly though MN is likely precommitted to Obama no matter who does what.
I have NO IDEAs what business Romney started or runs
None
That part of his resume is missing from the promotions that this man’s “backers” (who also seem mysterious, cash raisers have been reported to form and dissipate rather quickly) has been running for over a decade
The “only” job I have “ever” known him to do- is run for President - because his father groomed him for it
And I heard he was a governor, too, of a highly taxed socially liberal state. How different would the US look now if we were all Massachusetts?
So help me out here- please share Romney’s private industries and companies, hwo he started them (please, not by inheritance, otherwise the Kennedys are successful too) what they do, who they employ and their track record of success - so I can put facts to his “proven business experience”
Wow, what a coup for Romney! Pawlenty has so much star power in the Republican party, this endorsement clinches the nomination for Romney! He can just coast to the convention now. I’m sure Rick Perry will just end his campaign now and go back to Austin.
On Laura Ingraham, Mike Huckabee said thinks Romney may be the most electable but he’s not endorsing right now. Said nice things about Santorum. Attacking Perry on Social Security, says Bachmann is competitive with Romney in FL. He’s painting Perry as too extreme, too “red meat” conservative. Said Dems should say, “If you loved George W. Bush you’ll love Rick Perry,” whether it’s true or not.
A fart endorses a turd... no surprise there... a match made in hell.
LLS
Romney was an initial investor/co-founder of Staples. Also, he’s co-founder of Bain Capital that finds, funds and expands or has gotten off the ground hundreds of businesses. Those businesses are - guess what? - providing jobs!
“Bain Capital manages approximately $65 billion in assets, and has founded, acquired, or invested in hundreds of companies including AMC Entertainment, Aspen Education Group, Brookstone, Burger King, Burlington Coat Factory, Domino’s Pizza, DoubleClick, D&M Holdings, Guitar Center, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), Sealy, The Sports Authority, Toys R Us....” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain_Capital
The man has a very serious business background, For all that can be said about his flip-flopping on social issues, and Romneycare during his governorship of MA, we denigrate (or remain ignorant of) his business experience at our own peril.
Thank you
So Romney is...... a very large investor
Bully for him
Of course, to be an investor, it helps to start out with lots of family lucre. The art of the deal is swell, just what we need, a big time capitalist to beat a big time socialist.
Didn’t Sarah start the dialogue on crony capitalism? Romney and obama may be opposing spectrum archetypes.
God, I hope we get a US president who has actually worked with her/his hands. And who inherited nothing.
I really don’t like being put in a position of defending Romney, but he did inherit some money, but nothing compared to what he created with what he was bequeathed.
Can’t we leave that class envy to the Dems?
Ditto.
Wow... Romney is unstoppable now! Especially with all Pawlenty’s star power...-err wait...
Romney is always cited as good for the economy because he's an experienced businessman who knows how to run a business. Yes, like investing inherited money in someone else’s entrepreneurship.
He's just not a man who ever to go make his own breaks, or even to face his own workforce. Silver spoon entrepreneurs do not impress me as do truly self-made men, like Paul LePage.
You keep speaking down on Mitt Romney because of his ‘inherited money.’ Even if that premise were correct, it might be said that he did not squander but rather exponentially expanded on his inheritance. However, his father, George Romney, died well after Mitt made the investments that created his fortune, and after he was elected Gov of MA. His mother died a few years later. Whatever fortune he might have inherited from his parents would have come late in the day.
What I DO think he inherited was an incredible business sense and a political philosophy that puts him in the ‘centrist’ mode not popular among active conservatives. His father, who did come up the hardscrabble way, was able to send him to university (which George himself never completed), but also made him take low level jobs in the Detoit auto industry; Both also did a Mormon mission which is not anyone’s idea of a picnic. The father was a leader in the LDS and as such contributed @ 20% of his income to that church, so the remainder for probate distribution, to be distributed one assumes among four siblings, would have been a limited fortune.
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