Posted on 01/12/2012 1:55:15 PM PST by Nachum
Remember that big-budget Hollywood movie about the powerful company that creates jobs, drives innovation, and gives millions to charity? Neither do I.
From Gordon Gekko in “Wall Street” to Edward Lewis in “Pretty Woman,” Hollywood loves to hate corporate raiders. And now, we’ve learned, so do many of the Republican candidates for president not named Mitt Romney. “Winning our Future,” a super PAC that’s backing Newt Gingrich, just released a documentary called “When Mitt Romney Came to Town” that assails Romney’s record as head of Bain Capital. It’s the kind of withering attack on private equity that makes the Daily Kos crowd cheer.
Romney has tried to respond by noting how many net jobs—“well over 100,000”—he created. And he’s also empathized with those whose jobs were lost. “Any time a job is lost it’s a tragedy,” Romney said today. “For the family, for the individual that loses a job, it’s just devastating. And every time that we invested in the business it was to try and encourage that business to have ongoing life.”
The underlying issue for conservatives is not whether Romney qualifies as a millionaire job creator—a “unicorn,” to use Senator Harry Reid’s term of art. It is whether conservatives stand for free enterprise—period—or whether they stand only for the soft and cuddly kind of free enterprise that they and Washington regulators can manage.
This is crucial, because even liberals concede that free enterprise is a great engine of wealth creation. But liberals and conservatives alike often regard it as a necessary evil—immoral for sure, amoral at best.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.american.com ...
Ouch. Sounds like Obama's WTF
“It is whether conservatives stand for free enterprise—period—or whether they stand only for the soft and cuddly kind of free enterprise that they and Washington regulators can manage. “
Crony Captialist like Bain Captial and Mitt Romney wouldn’t know FREE ENTERPRISE even if it jumped up and bit them in the rear-end...!!
I care not for the rush to clarify and help Mitt. Dirty politics. Do conservatives stick up for that too? Mitt and his minions are masters of it. Who cares about that aspect? Who in the media has been scurrying to make it known? Now, folks are all worked up. Pfft.
Not good. If this keeps up all the Obamanation will have to do is produce a compilation of Republican attack ads/videos assailing Romney’s role at Bain. If it wasn’t before, characterizing him as an evil corporate raider is sure to be the Demorats’ prime objective if Romney is the GOP nominee.
So if you dislike what Mitt and Bain did are you for laws to prevent it from occurring? What laws do you want?
Obama will be glad to listen
It's not about changing the laws, I just don't want the guy in the White House.
It's not Newt and Perry who are portraying corporations as evil, it's these people who think what Romney did to many of those companies is what capitalism is all about. We don't think corporations are bad or that businessmen are evil, but when they do evil thinggs we're not afraid to point it out. By slamming everyone who mentions that the Emperor has no clothes they are doing incredible damage to the reputations of good men and women who don't act like preditors.
This article poses the critical question:
“The underlying issue ... is whether conservatives stand for free enterprise—period—or whether they stand only for the soft and cuddly kind of free enterprise that they and Washington regulators can manage.”
Heres the point ...those people who want to change the law will use your dislike of Mitt to do it.... if its bad it should be illegal ..if it isnt bad there should be no complaining about doing it
Gingrich’s WTF came first. LOL.
http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Future-Century-Contract-America/dp/B005SN5LSA/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_12
;-)
You heard it here first.
(I'm so cutting edge.)
Then that is what Gingrich and Perry should be criticizing him for. Not his business.
And for those of you [not, you, Renee] who throw around the "crony" capitalist accusation, where's an example of it? I could understand criticizing him for that if he were.
But I have heard nothing about any special favors granted to Bain Capital by the government. "Crony capitalism" is on its way to becoming another meaningless term thrown around like "RINO" and "racist."
Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry are just being “compassionate capitalists”. </sarcasm>
“So if you dislike what Mitt and Bain did are you for laws to prevent it from occurring? What laws do you want?
Obama will be glad to listen”
Nice try....!!! Crony captialist like Bain Captial and Mitt Romney run around the halls of congress with money falling from their suitcases and you wanna ask me what can be done?
How bout some FREE ENTERPRISE, where cronies like Bain, Mitt, and others aren’t getting special favors from the government because they shove money down the pants of congress men and women.
As someone stated on these boards yesterday, how bout a little seperation of STATE and BUSINESS. No more corporate handouts, no more too big to fail, No more of captialist standing around waiting for a bailout by the American taxpayer.
To hell with captialist, let them make it or break it on their on, get out of the pocket of the Amerian taxpayer. That’s FREE ENTERPRISE.
I guess the dollars they through at Congress is just window dressing huh?
Noooo...!! Bain and Mitt wouldn’t dare buy a vote or a favor would they? If you believe that, I got some beach front proptery on the Pacific Ocean down in TN. I wanna sell ya...!!
Obviously it was before, and will be in the Fall. Of course the Democrats will characterize Romney as an evil corporate raider - and it will work.
You know why it will work?
Because Romney WAS an evil corporate raider.
The Democrats won't need to paint him as one, all they will need to do is throw a cleansing bucket of water on him and the truth is there for all to see.
Isn't it better to see him as he is now, and not after it is too late?
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