This is bunk. Free traitorism only benefits the small globalist elite that underwrites economics chairs at universities and bribes both parties.
So his anti-gun, pro Romney Care, etc., stances mean nothing?
I don’t have have any problems with him being a captialist. I have problems with him being a Liberal. The fact that he was elected Governor of the People’s Democratic Republic of Massachusetts is proof enough for me.
And for many many years have folks been saying the the R are really the same as the Rats, just a little less so? So R’s attacking free enterprise, capitalism and constitutionalism is not really all that surprising.
Mitt Romney is neither a true Republican nor a conservative. FR will continue to tear him a new one as per the owner.
I remind you all that there is a distinction between pro-market and pro-business (see Gov. Palin’s latest book, or better still the writings of her favorite Chicago-School economist Luigi Zingales). When the two diverge, I hope that most American conservatives will be pro-market, rather than pro-business.
Certainly corporate raiding or asset-stripping can serve a function in the economy rather like predators and carrion fowl serve in nature, but it is at best an unlovely part of capitalism, and at worst an abuse of capitalism. Do corporate raiders actually deliver shareholder value to the owners of the companies they take over, or do they line their own pockets as the new managers (and largest, though most often not majority shareholders) at the expense of their fellow owners? Too much of what passes for capitalism these days are managers delivering value for themselves at the expense of the shareholders, whose fiduciaries they are in theory. When “pro-business” policies support management shafting shareholders or plurality shareholders shafting the rest, I turn “anti-business”, and do so with a good conscience as a conservative. I’m not particularly interested in whether Bain Capital downsized companies to took over. I’m interested in how the other shareholders, the other capitalists who has perhaps originally built up the company, fared under Bain’s stewarship. From what I have read, they did not fare well, and that is reason enough to hold Bain’s behavior against Romney.
Oh I’ve been disgusted for a while now. The attacks on capitalism are legion here at FR and Newt;s already triangulating. But I depart from the author on Romney and the others electability. I think any of them can beat Obama except Ron Paul. And there are very good reasons to oppose Romney but doing it at the expense of free market capitalism sure the hell ain’t the right one.
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.
Romney, the anti-conservative. anti-Reagan, anti-Jesse Helms, anti-Contract with America.
Romney was so anti-conservative that he left the party after Reagan’s election, and by the late 1980s was moving on to supporting and even fund raising solely for democrats.
So many years I read and subscribed to National Review, I canceled them in 2008 (or late 2007).
Here's what we have now:
Ineptocracy (in-ept-o-cra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
>> 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.
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.
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.
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.