[Utmost Certainty]

Author is a doofus misrepresenting the arguments.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Capitalism is good but ECONOMIC FREEDOM is better.

[be-baw]

Well, I heard Newt say on TV that Bain bought a company, plundered it of $180 million then let it go bankrupt. That might have been perfectly legal. If it’s true, what is the problem with pointing it out?

[tsowellfan]

Since conservatism has been redefined. Bush was a "conservative".

After 8 years of Obama and his media conservatism will be refined so much that Olympia Snowe will be "too far to the right" to ever be elected President.

[CainConservative]

Rombot,

So why should American taxpayers have to be forced to pay for Willard’s business incompetence and greed?
—

Workers were denied the severance pay and health insurance they’d been promised, and their pension benefits were cut..

What’s more, a federal government insurance agency had to pony up $44 million to bail out the company’s underfunded pension plan. Nevertheless, Bain profited on the deal, receiving $12 million on its $8 million initial investment and at least $4.5 million in consulting fees.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/01/bain-drip-drip-drip/

[TexasFreeper2009]

Ok here is what is going on. As hard as it is to believe.. there are liberal Republicans... and they appear to be about 20% of us.. and they support Romney.

Thus if we want to cut into Romney’s support.. Romney has to be attacked from the left. Thus the Bain attacks.

An attack from the right wont work on Romney, because no one on the right supports him.

[wolfman23601]

Here is my theory:

Newt knows he isn’t winning NH. He is attacking from the left to run interference for Huntsman, who is in the running for 2nd (and it appears to be working looking at today’s polls). If Huntsman gets some momentum coming out of NH, and can possibly pull 10% in SC, coming from Romney’s base, he can survive the inevitable split in the conservative vote and win in SC.

[old school]

I think that this is a tempest in a teapot. This is nothing more that payback to Romney for being a sh*t-head. That’s all!

[Proud2BeRight]

They are not anticapitalism. They are simply giving slimy Romney some payback for his attack ads in Iowa.

[RoosterRedux]

Boy, those asking about Bain are receiving heavy duty flak.

Bain must be Romneys' Achilles Heel.

[tsowellfan]

The new republican primary: "My opponent is more capitalist than I am!"

Didn't Santorum lose an election doing something similar to this?

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[NavyCanDo]

Sounds like the same commentary Rush gave this morning. And I think he is right. Newt was on hot and Romney was not, when he was making Obama the bad guy. But lately Newt has been turning his guns on Romney’s for a being filthy rich CEO of a large evil corporation. Newt is not sounding like a conservative, and repeating things that Harry Reed and Pelosi have been saying.

[colorado tanker]

The case against Romney can easily be made without resorting to Democrat-style business bashing.

[ozzymandus]

So many “conservatives” are blinded by their hatred of Romney that they’re willing to swallow leftist propaganda. I’ll vote for whoever runs against Obama.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Because Romney ran Bain Capital, which would restructure and reorganize companies in order to make them profitable. In doing so, everything that would be involved in saving a company was on the table: selling assets, trimming work staff, modernizing... you name it.

Or at least a very loose approximation of those activities.

[Cicero]

Some people build businesses up, and some people exploit the work of others and tear it down.

I don’t think the solution to that abuse of capitalist freedom is government regulation. Probably the best solution is moral judgment and, at base, religious belief. As many people have pointed out, you cannot have a truly free society without the self-discipline brought by religious belief.

In other words, conservatism includes a foundation in traditional morality as well as freedom. The problem with Romney is not that he is a capitalist, but that he is a capitalist who lacks moral principles. He has enriched himself by tearing down the businesses that other people built, and putting people out of work in the process.

That doesn’t mean that all mergers and takeovers are bad. But they become bad when you have a scumbag liar like Romney who does it.

Romney used to boast that he saved the Salt Lake City Olympics because he was such a genius of a businessman. Yeah, sure. He saved it by procuring a huge barrel of pork from the government, at taxpayer expense. The man is a congenital liar who cannot be trusted at anything.

[whitedog57]

And even Republican-leaning economists like Glenn Hubbard LOVE big government central-planning. Maybe some Repubs DO hate capitalism.

From Zero Hedge:

http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/ezra-kleins-on-mortgage-modifications-and-the-perils-of-centrally-planned-housing-and-mortgage-markets/

[Dixie Yooper]

The Dem's are ROTHFLTAO because the GOP mud slingers are accusing Mitt of having the business experience that they accuse Obama of not having...

[running_dog_lackey]

-—Since when do conservatives hate capitalism?——

Since capitalists put me in debt to the Communist Chinese.