Posted on 01/16/2012 3:48:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Whatever his weaknesses (and they are legion, IMHO) attacking Romney because he’s a capitalist doesn’t speak well of his opponents.
An incredibly stupid line of attack that backfired and is probably helping Romney. Perry and Newt were stupid to have done this. It forced conservatives that otherwise don’t have a lot of love for Romney to defend him - which is exactly what Mitt needs in a GOP primary.
Look out, you will be vilified on FR for questioning this tactic. Yet the fact remains, just as I’ve said all along, this was the worst possible approach, especially when Romney presents so many other valid targets.
The whole concept is bizarre ~ what it does is make your first dollar of expense your medical insurance. Food, Shelter and Clothing come second.
The law is telling you that it doesn't matter if you have nothing to eat, are homeless, and dressed in rags, you gotta' pay that insurance first or GO TO PRISON.
It's just not right. Only a madman would agree to such a thing.
Romney agreed.
I didn’t bother to read the article, but one thing is reasonably certain, the jury will render a verdict next Saturday.
Then we can see Newt stop Romney and go on to throw Obama out of the White House...
OR, we can see Newt leave the race and then we can watch Obama kick Romney’s a$$.
GO NEWT GO.....
I don’t know that the real message has percolated enough yet to have any deciding effect. The point was never to attack capitalism, but to draw into question McRomney’s electability.
The narrative just got horribly misconstrued out of the gate by the media; though to be fair, Rick Perry running around talking about “vulture capitalism”—a term Newt never used—wasn’t very helpful, in spite of being a legit complaint.
Either way, we all know that Romney’s tenure as a private equity manager of Bain Capital is going to be a Pandora’s Box in the general election, and a gift that keeps on giving for the Democrats.
The commentariat by and large misreported the issue. They painted it as an anti-capitalism issue, which it wasn’t. They have been no better than the media who got Obama elected and has protected him ever since.
Not a flop, a catastrophe. It made Mitt look like a courageous, principled man of the Right.
The stupidest line of attack ever in a Republican primary. They learned nothing from Michele Bachman’s hysterical, emotional, Democrat-style attacks on Perry that annihilated her campaign. Gingrich and Perry turned around and did the same thing in their Bain ads.
Exactly. Those taking this tack reveal their own failings and lack of presidential timber.
I joined you in skewering Newt on this stupidity from day one, and was attacked repeatedly. I was lectured by sycophants about how Newt wasn't attacking capitalism, just "vulture" capitalism, something none of them could explain or draw boundaries for. I always expected Newt would self-destruct- he always does. I just never thought he would be so boneheaded as to rescue Mittens in the process. All he had to do was torpedo Mittens relentlessly on abortion, RomneyCare, and gay "rights" - perfect fodder to poison Rommney with S.C. primary voters.
You sound like a Rombot on defense.
Btw, NO Republican candidate ever attacked Willard the Lib for that.
Yup, I tried to make that argument too. Now that this line of attack appears to be backfiring (and helping Romney) exactly as it was obviously going to do, we're going to get a bunch of "well there was nothing wrong with the attack, the media just distorted it" excuses.
There is so much wrong with Mitt that finding his weaknesses and pounding him should have been easy. Instead Perry and Newt attacked in the one place that would force conservatives (that don't have much love for Romney) to defend him. This reinforced Romney's claim that he is a champion of free market capitalism and made Perry and Newt look like they were taking "occupywallstreet" type cheap shots that will never pass muster in a GOP primary.
It would be different if this were something that only Romney had done and it hadn’t been going on in the corporate world for decades.
I suspect that many of us have been laid off due to things like this over the years. The company I worked for was bought by Collins and Aikman who squeezed the value out of it and dumped the corpse. (C&A went bankrupt themselves in 07 with David Stockman at the helm)
I don’t like it and don’t think its ethical but its legal and if its so terrible that its a legitimate campaign issue, then the candidates should run on the promise of making it illegal and punishing the guilty.
There’s still some time left. It isn’t a Romney win yet.
He was attacking unethical, ruthless and immoral behavior by Romney. Such attacks are no more an attack on capitalism than attacks on abortionists are an attack on the medical profession.
The commentariat played their part, but so did the video itself. Have you seen it?
Gee.....Who could’ve seen this coming? /s
Bad judgment, plain and simple.
Nonsense. This Bain issue didn’t resonate because the conservative (”Romney”) commentariat decided to misrepresent Newt’s Tea Party argument as an attack on capitalism.
Great.
Now, wait until the Chicago gang raises the same issue. They set this up with the Occupy movement, equating it as a mirror image of the Tea Party- thus marginalizing the latter.
When the Dems raise Bain- the leftish media will show the conservative commentariat how its done. The richest most privileged candidate in presidential history, who loves to fire people, destroy jobs and families —and will certainly take the food out of the mouths of babes.
The Establishment wants Romney- many on this board as well- let’s see how Mr. Country Club elite GOP one world order socialist fairs against the Chicago Dem machine.
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