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Posted on 01/12/2012 10:04:15 AM PST by tsowellfan
Presidential candidate Rick Perry's criticism of Mitt Romney's business past has cost him the support of a prominent South Carolina Republican.
Investment fund executive and top GOP donor Barry Wynn told The Associated Press Thursday that he's leaving the Perry fold to endorse Romney. Wynn says he was irritated by Perry's attacks on Romney's time at the helm of the private equity firm Bain Capital.
As Wynn put it, "It's like fingernails on the chalkboard."
Perry struck hard this week at Romney's work at Bain Capital. The firm sometimes turned big profits even as companies it invested in went under and people lost their jobs.
By Thursday, Perry had backed away from that line of attack after days of calling Romney a "vulture capitalist."
I Romney has nothing to hide, why is he hiding it?
If Romney has nothing to hide, why is he hiding it?
It’s been reported yesterday and today that he’s said he “crossed the line” and his attack on Bain was a “mistake”...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71336_Page2.html
If he was going to attack Romney’s ties with Bain, he should have attacked Bain’s partnering with ChiComs for the transfer of US defense technology. We’ve seen the results of that transfer with all the cyber attacks the ChiComs have perpetrated all across our defense network.
It’s been reported yesterday and today that he’s said he “crossed the line” and his attack on Bain was a “mistake”...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71336_Page2.html
If he was going to attack Romney’s ties with Bain, he should have attacked Bain’s partnering with ChiComs for the transfer of US defense technology. We’ve seen the results of that transfer with all the cyber attacks the ChiComs have perpetrated all across our defense network.
He’ll be president of the US and Mitt (It’s my turn) Romney will finally stop campaigning. Romney will lose to Obama this year and nobody will touch him with a 10 foot pole after that. Perry will run and win. He’s had his practice run. BTW HE actually got re-elected in his state, something Romney could never manage to get done.
“It’s been reported yesterday and today that he’s said he “crossed the line” and his attack on Bain was a “mistake”...”
Like I said, Gingrich had to address it and say something to all the talk-radio and Fox listeners who bought the Romney counterattack line that Gingrich was attacking capitalism itself by attacking Romney’s corporate raiding days at Bain.
Looks like the MSM has finally found its love for Wall Street. Checkmate.
And right there, in a nutshell, you have the reason why the Republicans would have to have a suicide urge to nominate this guaranteed loser.
does this mean that rush’s support of romney, and I believe he does support Romney, is somehow tied to Bain and his preservation? i don’t know how business works at all... but I am trying to figure out why rush supports romney and I am totally convinced he does now...
One thing is crystal clear. Anyone that destroys someone else’s life to make himself richer is not fit to be a dogcather, much less president of the United States. I wan to see this SOB Romney’s tax records? What is he hiding? I also want to find out more about the pension plans that the Federal government (our tax dollars) had to bail out after Romney and gang looted the company and took off.
Newt didn’t attack capitalism: he attacked unprincipled businessmen hiding behind capitalism. There is a big difference.
Oh, puh-leeze! There on people on FR who still claim they won’t vote for Newt because he sat on a sofa with Nancy Pelosi.
Talk about short sighted!
While I agree that Perry gave an in-artful impolitic answer to this particular question at the debate, and that it has cost him dearly, he NEVER said what you are claiming.
First of all, he was referring to the State of Texas, and NOBODY gets "free instate tuition". If you lived in Texas you would know that. In Texas all taxpayers who fund Texas education through their sales taxes are treated equally - almost. The children of illegals have several additional hurdles before they can qualify to be treated like the children of other taxpayers.
And this is a law that was passed by the the Texas legislature on behalf of the voters of Texas by an overwhelming vote, and has never been unpopular in Texas - if it had been, those legislators who voted for the bill would not have been re-elected over and over again since then.
You may be right that Rick Perry is going nowhere. But I have looked long and hard at these candidates, and Rick Perry is the one outstanding example of a true small government conservative who speaks from the heart and is a proven doer, not a talker. So, who is the loser if Perry does go nowhere? We are the losers. Sad.
Have you seen this?: http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/01/12/the-bain-bomb-fizzles/
Exactly. Remember Perry's "no heart" comment?
This describes the morality of thieves.
Now, I know you later insert a proviso about "the confines of the legal and regulatory environment" blah blah blah, but the operating norms of companies like Bain drive them to the very edge of the moral, ethical, and legal playing field. This makes it inevitable that there will be "out of bounds" acts. That's why they get such a bad odor about them and are called names like sleazeball., etc.
Most Capitalists would prefer to operate in the middle of the moral, ethical, and legal field. No fouls there.
But there are those who don't. OK, that may be for them to decide.
But to take one of these sleazeballs and nominate him as the Presidential candidate of a major political party is the epitome of stupidity and a recipe for disaster. I could go on, but let's just leave it here. The nomination of Romney will ensure the re-election of Obama and the ultimate ruination of our country.
Well, I did say that my response had little to do with Romney: it pertained to Romney's new BFF. As for Romney himself, I can see where you're going with it. Far too many limousine liberals become so because they feel guilty about something they've done or have. In many cases, it's a guilt complex...but in some cases, they've done something that they should feel guilty about.
As far as CEOs are concerned, I wasn't really knocking them in my earlier response. Businesspeople tend to take the system as it is and find advantages therein. That's how money is made: finding value differentials and acting on them. Little wonder why the libertarian movement is dominated by academics and would-be academics; the ability to critique the system and "srike the root" is profoundly unbusinesslike.
Newt & Perry’s attacks on capitalism were disgraceful.
I agree 100 percent. However, if he is so disgusted with these two, why not endorse Santorum? That would be closer to Perry’s beliefs than Romney.
My objection to Romney as the Republican nominee is that he seems to have few, if any, consistently conservative core political values. However, I have no problem with the way a firm like Bain Capital operates. I'd rather have Bain use investors’ money to bet on start-ups or turn around failing companies than have Obama use taxpayers’ money for those same purposes.
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