Posted on 01/09/2012 6:24:44 PM PST by americanophile
The last two presidential election cycles have revealed a stinking hypocrisy in conservatives: They profess their love of capitalism and entrepreneurship, but when offered a real capitalist and entrepreneur, they go, “Eek, a mouse!” And they tear him down in proud social-democrat fashion. In the off season, they sound like Friedrich Hayek. When the game is on, they sound like Huey Long, Bella Abzug, or Bob Shrum.
Last time around, Mike Huckabee said Romney “looks like the guy who laid you off.” Conservatives reacted like this was the greatest mot since Voltaire or something. To me, Romney looked like someone who could create a business and hire the sadly unentrepreneurial like me.
Others said, “He looks like a car salesman,” or, worse, “a used-car salesman.” Ho ho ho! Commerce, gross, icky, yuck. Better Romney looked like an anthropology professor.
As I say in Impromptus today, I was watching a clip of Romney tangling with an “Occupy” protester last week. Romney was defending corporate profits. I was astounded. I don’t think I had ever seen a candidate do this. When the subject comes up, you’re supposed to denounce corporate profits or say, “Hey, nice weather we’re having, huh?”
Phil Gramm once explained to Bill Buckley why he never talked about free trade on the stump — he, a professor of economics and a free-marketeer: It wasn’t worth the trouble. “Free trade benefits almost everybody,” said Gramm. “But they don’t know who they are. Free trade hurts a few, and they all know who they are.”
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>> I’m disgusted by the anti-capitalist, Marxist/socialist class warfare rhetoric being used.
There’s nothing wrong with bitch-slapping agents of hostile take overs — if that’s what you’re referring to.
Proponents of “anything goes” in the World of business are usually those that have no experience in starting or running a business. The virtues of Capitalism extend far beyond the balance sheet, and anyone that believes otherwise can go # off.
From wiki:
Hostile takeovers
A hostile takeover allows a suitor to take over a target company whose management is unwilling to agree to a merger or takeover. A takeover is considered “hostile” if the target company’s board rejects the offer, but the bidder continues to pursue it, or the bidder makes the offer directly after having announced its firm intention to make an offer.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THIS DEFINITION. It is only considered hostile because management is opposed to it. To the “little” people who actually own the company it is not hostile - it is someone giving them more for their investment. Yet you invoke “honesty” like a libtard.
I wonder if many of the freepers here are really anti-liberty or if they just need an education in how venture capital works and why it is better than central planning. I think they fear what they do not understand.
Here are just a FEW things Obama has done since in the White House. I’m sure you forgot but once you read the list it’ll ring some bells in your head..! And WE all know this is just the tip of the iceberg. There is a lot more he’s done to DAMAGE America..4 more years I HOPE & PRAY NOT..!
1. Obama Lying About His Social Security Number
2. Obama Lying About His Nation Of Birth
3. Obama’s Endless Tyrannical Executive Orders
4. The Obama Soros’ Occupy Wall street Mob
5. Uganda
6. Obama Giving Solyndra 535 Million Of Our Money
7. Raising The Deficit To 18 Trillion
8. America’s First Credit Downgrade
9. Obama’s Fast And Furious Criminal Operation
10. Repeal Of DOMA
11. Repeal Of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
12. Obama Buying His Union Votes With Our Tax Money
13. Obama Empowering The Muslim Brotherhood And Al Qaeda
14. Obama Swearing That He Would Side With Muslims Against Us Patriots
15. Obama’s Hate Speech Provocations
16. Obama putting Muslim’s Rights Over All Other American’s Rights
17. Obama Ignoring North Korean Aggression
18. Obama’s Democrats Voting Against Auditing The Corrupt Federal Reserve Bank
19. Obama Giving Brazilian & Soro’ Owned Oil Company Two Billion To Drill Off Shore With The Oil Slated To Go To China
20. Lopsided Nuke Deals
21. Obama’s Expensive & Unnecessary Trip To India
22. Obama’s Illegal Aunt Living Off Our Taxes
23. Obama Taking 500 Billion From Medicare And From Our Senior Citizens To Fund His Illegals On welfare
24. Obama Having The Cross and the letters IHS covered up that symbolizes the name of Jesus Christ at Georgetown University obama delivering a dismal 45-minute speech. 25. Mosque At 9-11 Ground Zero
26. Obama and Hillary calling in the UN to slam Arizona, 22 States & our nation’s laws
27. Our Tax Money Being Used To Fund The Democrat Propagandist National Public Radio
28. Obamacare
29. Abortions paid for under Obamacare
30. Suing Arizona
31. Obama’s Wealth Redistribution
32. No Social Security Cost Of Living Increase For Retired Americans For Two Years
33. Bailouts
34. Bribes
35. Obama’s & BP’s Mishandled Gulf Of Mexico Oil Aneurysm
36. 535 Billion Of Your Money Spent On Illegals Every Year
37. Obama’s 2.6 Trillion Amnesty
38. Economy Trashed By The Democrats
39. Democrat Voter Fraud
40. No Real Border Security Enforcement
41. Siding with the Marxist Zelaya in Honduras against the will of the people there
42. No Jobs
43. Beer Summit
44. Calling Our Returning Veterans Potential Terrorists
45. AG Holder setting the 9-11 terrorist trial just blocks from the 9-11 attack site
46. Calling Christians Potential Terrorists
47. Hands Holding Crotch During Pledge Of Allegiance
48. Rev Wright
49. Michelle
50. Massive & Reckless Spending
51. Harry Reid
52. Nancy Pelosi
53. Sestak Obamacare Death Panels
54. Nationalizing Banks
55. Nationalizing US Industry
56. Obama’s Massive Stimulus Failure
57. Calling Tea Party Activists Racists
58. New Black Panther Party Thugs empowered by Obama’s AG Holder
59. Using the NAACP to spread Racist Propaganda
60. Obama’s Dept Of Justice Refusing To Prosecute Black Racist Discrimination Against White People
61. ACORN
62. Dead People Voting As Democrats
63. Calling Terrorism A Man Made Disaster
64. Calling America a Muslim Nation
65. Obama Giving One Billion Of Your Money To The Hamas Terrorists Of Gaza
66. Bowing to the Saudi king of Terror
67. The Obama Apology Tour
68. Obama’s Marxist Czars
69. Obama’s Muslim Czars advocating for Islamic Sharia Law in America FEMA Camps Obama mistreating our friends
70. Cap & Trade Tax
71. agenda 21
72. Obama’s Terrorist Appeasement
73. The Islamization Of NASA
74. Muslims exempted from Obamacare
75. Obama’s Mistreatment Of Israel
76. The NDAA to imprison Americans at will the New Start Treaty in Russia the 111th Democratic Congress
77. Violating the rules of the U.S. House•
78. Inappropriately handing out the legislative powers of Congress.
79. Upending the legislative process Usurping the powers reserved to the states in the U.S. Constitution.
80. Barack Obama has advocated that the nation should move beyond the constraints of the founding document.
Americans, hear what your president is saying: I’ll work within the system. But if they won’t move, then…I will dictate where we’re going.
The arrogance of this man and the way he rewrites all of American history
and obama adds something new everyday ,, cause he never stops hurting our America.
More anti hostile takeover talk from a freeper who doesn’t even know what it is and why it is GOOD for the “liitle” investors. Check wiki for a quick definition.
>> More anti hostile takeover talk from a freeper who doesn’t even know what it is
What did I say it was? Or are you just making shit up?
I have no intention of making an excuse for that idiotic statement. Newt’s made plenty of them.
My issue is with idolizing the manipulation of corporate value as some form of capitalistic virtue.
It's pretty clear that's the ultimate question. But in order to get there one needs to be somewhat apprised on Bain Capital's history. And to most out there, it reeks of the kind of over-leveraging that gave us the bank bailouts.
>> I’m disgusted by the anti-capitalist, Marxist/socialist class warfare rhetoric being used.
And I completely agree with your initial statement.
We are doomed. One of our so called own stated on this thread that they would rather have Socialism if abortion was illegal. Kind of like Ceacescu’s Romania. If two years ago someone told me that the GOP’s candidates would be attacking the free market I would thought you were crazy, but here we are, brought to us by rhetorical suicide bomber Newt. I do not want big government serving the interests of the Looney Left or serving the Social Issue Right. I want them both out of my pocket. As stated in the article, most conservatives only support the free market in abstract, but in real life they are just Statists also.
The author’s missing the point with his remark about people likening Romney to a used car salesman. No conservative is down on the automobile business, for God’s sake. But used car salesmen gained a reputation for lying (often with good cause - I know first-hand). And THAT’S what people mean about Mittens - he’s disingenuous.
“Let’s see how Romney stands up to this during the primaries not afterward, when it’s too late.”
Onyx, you’re right on (as usual :-) These are exactly the tactics and attacks the BHO machine will use if, God forbid, Mittens were to get the nomination.
Hang in there, Newt!!!
“That being said, Romney is a disgusting anti-capitalist when he gets into political office. His reign in Massachusetts was not even close to being a sterling example of free-market capitalist political policy, it was nothing more than mainline progressive liberalism.”
Excellent point! Bears repeating.
Corporate raiding and pillaging, such as firms like Bain Capital engaged in, is not free market capitalism.
These sort of bottom-dwelling scumbags have no interest in management of firms, production or distribution of goods or services, or any other constructive enterprise.
Scum like Romney destroy. That's it. There's no "managing" involved -- just theft and destruction.
And there is nothing "conservative" about the practice.
Wrong, hedge funds are nothing more than gambling, with the manager playing the part of bookie. Adds no value to any transaction. And if you claim it is insurance it is not, no insurable interest. Whore houses are more honest than hedge funds.
How did Bain make money?
You are suggesting Bain should have paid higher prices for the companies they took over? If so, why?
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