Isn’t a Bainful Turnaround What America Needs?

the former turnaround CEO expressed confidence that the troubled U.S. Government, Inc. could be saved.

Some at least of Bain's turnaround targets seem to have relied on gov't subsidies and taxpayer-guaranteed bailout if things didn't work out. Who's promising a subsidy or a bailout to turn the US around?

Problem with this argument is that Romney doesn’t have a good governing record for slashing spending. Or doing much of anything else positive.

It’s extremely naive to assume that effective business acumen automatically translates over into effective political acumen.

Romney goes to the teleprompter

Um. No thank you.

Romney's ineptitude is obvious from 1) Seamus 2) his governor ship of Mass. (worst performance ever)
3) the 911 Mosque, and 4) ROMNEYCARE.

Romney for Obama in 2008

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

Romney's bad behavior Exposed by Seamus

"Romney Loses Nomination Over Dog Abuse? - Romney was traveling that summer with his wife, five sons, and Seamus to his parent's cottage on Lake Huron. But hours into the ride, Seamus apparently suffered diarrhea, which ran down the back window of the car. .David Kravitz wrote on BlueMassGroup, a liberal blog. "It also strikes me as classic Romney: it solves a problem efficiently, in a business-like manner, and with no regard whatsoever for the suffering that the solution may cause."

"But the details of the event are more than unseemly - they may, in fact, be illegal. Massachusetts's animal cruelty laws specifically prohibit anyone from carrying an animal "in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the animal carried thereon. "An officer for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals responded to a description of the situation saying "it's definitely something I'd want to check out." The officer, Nadia Branca, declined to give a definitive opinion on whether Romney broke the law but did note that it's against state law to have a dog in an open bed of a pick-up truck, and "if the dog was being carried in a way that endangers it, that would be illegal."

"Dog on Roof? What Was It Like for Romney's Pooch? - Scientists Say Dog Likely Experienced Wind-Whipped, Uncomfortable Trip - "Before beginning the drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family's hulking Irish setter, in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon's roof rack. e'd built a windshield for the carrier, to make the ride more comfortable for the dog,".. Jordan Kaplan, the owner of Petaholics, a dog walking service in New York City,
and a lifelong dog owner and dog lover, said Romney's actions were uncalled for"

"Romney's dog - This is a distinction Mitt Romney probably could do without, but he is surely the first presidential candidate to be attacked for putting a dog with diarrhea in a carrier and tying it to the top of a station wagon. Romney's defense: Seamus liked it. [like the citizens under Romney's RomneyCARE, etc.?] "

"As the oldest son, Tagg Romney commandeered the way-back of the wagon, keeping his eyes fixed out the rear window, where he glimpsed the first sign of trouble. ''Dad!'' he yelled. ''Gross!'' A brown liquid was dripping down the back window, payback from an Irish setter who'd been riding on the roof in the wind for hours. As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust, Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station. There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back onto the highway."

"Story about dog on car roof comes back to bite Romney - 200 comments from readers complaining of animal cruelty"

Well, if we hae a Bain turnaround it means that everyone in the country will be out on the streets, all the American assets will be sold off, Romney’s friends and invesors will be rich and the rest of us will be on the streets with nothing. So NO Larry, that is not what this country needs.

A politician cannot run/fix a private enterprize via politics, nor can a private enterprize be operated by a political entity.

I think I remember hearing that Jefferson is supposed to have said, "The business of America is business"

If that's true, we're long overdue for the demise of Monkey Ward's or Roebuck or ...

If we walk into the corporate office of US Gov't and look at all the pictures on the wall of past presidents/ceo's, I think we'd have to come to the conclusion from around 1900 that the lot of 'em were becoming more scoundrel than honorable businessman.

Romney may have at one time been involved with successful business ventures ... that was then this is now.

All we have to do is think of our own lives objectively.

I'm soon to be 64 (REALLY 64 .. I get a birthday this year (Feb 29) . ), and I USED TO BE a very strong and dextrous worker.

I USED TO BE (when I saw the strong and dextrous begin to diminish), a pretty successful salesman.

I USED TO BE (When I perceived demographic changes in my market) a pretty good truck driver.

Now ...

The eyes and ears are failing, my body screams at me when I awake, I have a life pak of various medicines and medications and my beloved wife knows just how and where to massage aches/pains and pleasures for/from and to my self.

WHY does Romney continue to want to be President?

As I see things these days, Sarah arrived just at the right time for both America and her ... but they deestroyed a perfect opportunity.

Sarah is the smarter of 'em all because she saw the reality, and packed another 'chute ... she's OK, America lost.

Mitt should go home and let Newt cut the thread holding Damaclese's sword overhead.

Newt has fire, guts and brains ... and just as good and poor judgement as any man.

Kudlow has got to be kidding with this stuff.

It’s nothing but pro Romney induced spin.

With a dash of contempt for the reader’s intelligence tossed in, naturally.

Romney and his ilk are getting ready to “asset strip” the US. Oh what a great realization to start my loverly Saturday morning./s

PE firms like Bain take a failing company and turn it around (which is good), but then get their payout by loading the company with debt and then taking it public by marketing it through the Wall Street “analyst” community.

No, more debt is not what the US needs.

I have been a Republican all my life, probably will die a Republican. I have been voting since 1974. The present GOP is not the GOP of yesteryear. Compared to the Red Threat that occupies the White House, these candidates seem conservative, but then, so wouldn’t Chairman Mao.
All war is attrition. We, the Republic, have been loosing a war of financial attrition for decades. We, the Republic are engaged in a war with those who govern us. Drastic measures are required to defeat this enemy in order to stop the bleeding that each of us are seeing in the depreciation of our savings, the constant onslaught of taxes, fees, and licenses. Each of them designed to remove our ability to live free.
If a slave is a person who works for no money, then a paid person who works with no money left for savings or investment is therefore a slave. In each case work is done, the slave is fed and roofed.
We have no choice but to vote for the candidate who will without hesitation stop the death of a thousand cuts. Bring the troops home, set them up defending our boarders to stop the invaders(illegal immigrants), while they spend their paychecks here bolstering our economy instead of someone elses.
If we need to declare war, then we do so, and like in the past, ramp it up again.
Reduction of all Federal Spending, and all taxes, fees, and other theft apparatus, is the only way to save our Republic.
All the candidates have faults and planks we don’t like. But at this time we need an Anti Federal Reserve, spend slashing nut job. It’s our only chance.
Vote Ron Paul, and plead, beg, and demand the others drop out of the race.
They are not interested in the Republic.

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I wrote this this AM to an American refugee from Communist Poland who seemed to have a negative opinion about Bain:

I'm not sure why anyone has a problem with Bain, except maybe Communists and guys who used to own stationery stores. (Bain bankrolled and profited handsomely from the Staples chain.) If we knew Romney would run the government the way Bain made its businesses run he'd be great. The problem was that how he ran Massachusetts as governor is much more likely to be representative of what sort of a President he would be.

ML/NJ

See the thread I just posted. I think it compliments of what you are saying more or less.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2832898/posts

Yeah Just Like Obamacare and Romneycare is what we Need

I think Daniel Mitchell says more or less the same thing

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2832898/posts

Alan Mulally might have met his limit here if he were given the job of turning the U.S.Government around, as he did Boeing and Ford. Probably a bit much.

"In the work that I had, we started a number of businesses, invested in many others and that overall created tens of thousands of jobs. So, I'm pretty proud of that record. And, by the way, in the general election, I'll be pointing out that the president took the reins of General Motors and Chrysler, closed factories, closed dealerships, laid off thousands and thousands of workers. He did it to try to save the business. We also had, on occasion, to do things that are tough to try and save a business."

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