I think it’s contemptible that we have a group of people on this site along with a ton of pundits, most important among them Charles Krauthammer and NRO editors who can’t grasp the basic truth in this article.
Is the Romney camp, including the hopelessly ignorant Ann Couter, so naive to think that the Obama camp would not be on him like a bad smell if he were to get the nomination? Let’s vette him now.
On the one hand if under scrutiny Romney ends up looking better to everyone, Newt is doing Romney a favor, on the other hand I fear that in doing this Newt may be cutting his own legs off.
I suspect that we will see what the article here says, that Romney, like Gordon Gecko, went in for the expressed purpose, NOT TO MAKE JOBS AS HE SAYS HE DID, but as a predator to pilfer those companies that were ripe for the picking. Perfectly legal, but is that the guy who is best poised to beat Obama?
I think not.
“At its peak in 1970, the Kansas City plant, then owned by Armco Steel Corp, employed 4,500 people. Poor market conditions forced a wave of layoffs in the early 1980s and led the company to prune its product line. By the early 1990s, the plant focused on two items: wire for products such as mattress springs and tires; and high-carbon balls and rods used by the mining industry to pulverize rocks.”
ARMCO’s fault.
From this comment: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2829920/posts?page=33#33
So a dying company ended up dying? How much of that death was due to the economic & regulatory policies the Obama Regime supports?
That’s the issue! Newt is clearly the superior alternative but he is in fact cutting his own legs off.
Moreover, he is pushing the focus to some weird and maybe not even nonsequitor.
Whose name is coming up in all this? Mutt, effing, Romney.
This guy outta send thank you cards to his competitors for elevating him as the front runner.
Circular firing squad from that gang that all of a sudden can’t shoot straight.
This goes on much longer and I’m done. I’ll tune out the election because it will be ‘08 all over again.
Instead, they are using the language of the left to criticize Romney on the substance of what he actually did. "You took greedy profits and left those workers without a job. That is wrong."
Sadly, there are no winners in this. The Republicans who are attacking them diminish themselves by adopting the language of the left, and Romney looks bad because it will be an albatross in the general election.