Posted on 01/24/2012 3:44:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Reporting from Lehigh Acres, Fla. — Mitt Romney's taxes were the talk of the campaign and the latest Gallup national tracking poll showed him falling behind Newt Gingrich in the wake of his stinging defeat in last weekend's South Carolina primary. But as he campaigned briefly Tuesday in Florida, where the biggest primary yet this year is just a week away, Romney largely directed his fire at President Obama.
At one of only two events of his schedule, he traveled to a subdivision east of Fort Myers to blast the Democratic incumbent over one of the central economic issues in the 2012 election: the housing bust.
Before a crowd of several hundred curious onlookers, drawn to the event by local TV news coverage on an unseasonably hot January afternoon, the former Massachusetts governor tried to draw attention to the housing sector's continuing drag on the country's struggle to bounce back from the worst recession since the 1930s.
Romney did not offer any specific prescriptions of his own. Instead, he fingered Obama for blame, along with new regulations designed to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial collapse.
He said the Dodd-Frank legislation package had smothered banks with regulations that made it harder for them to help struggling homeowners dig out from mortgages that in many case are larger than the value of their homes....
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
And how!
Talk about a guy who is stone deaf or stump stupid.
He needs some photo ops showing him hugging a bank building, or listening empathetically to a hedge fund manager castigate the unemployed loafers.
“Romney largely directed his fire at President Obama”
About time. I don’t think he and his handlers have a clue on how to take on Newt. They have been all over the place in the last 48 hours jumping from one message to another trying to find something that works. Mitts problem is he is not a Conservative and could not answer that simple question when ask in last nights debate. Newt had no problem with it. GO NEWT GO!
Fighter or Desperate? How Will Mitt Romney’s Aggressive Attacks on Newt Gingrich Strike Florida Voters? – Video 1/23/12
The Mittens is a RINO-D..that’s a Republican in name only DEMOCRAT!
While there is nothing wrong as a matter of policy, business practice, or morality with what is either fondly or scornfully, depending on who uses the term, referred to as “vulture capitalism” — indeed just as carrion fowl are necessary to the ecosystems where they occur, the analogue in commerce is necessary to what Schumpeter called “creative destruction” — there is a reason why Gingrich’s attacks on Romney’s time at Bain were absolutely the right thing to do: they proved that Romney cannot explain that necessity, and indeed in remarks like this, and worse his characterization of his speaker fees (totaling enough even without his investment income to put him in the much-maligned “1%”) as “not very much”, Romney shows himself to have a complete tin ear when trying to explain and defend both business and wealth. If he cannot do this in the friendlier context of the GOP primary race, where the media is shielding him, he will be a disaster when actually attacked by the left and the media in full force in the general campaign should he get the nomination.
I'm betting that the Mittwit would find it even harder to imagine living in my circumstances or those of most folks here on FR.
Mittwit snuggles up to the poor misunderstood banks and expresses not a word of sympathy much less empathy for all those Floridians and other Americans whose home values have been tanked by the drunken dinosaur gummint, privileged Ivy League elitist birdbrains like Mittwit and Obozo, all the many Americans who work with their hands for a living or have low-level paper-shuffling jobs who have not had an after-inflation raise since about 1972 (on average), the medical personnel and oil workers whom Obozo is busily raping financially without Mittwit noticing (especially as to medical workers whom he also raped).
The Mittwit is a gentleman of leisure. He says that he is taxed @ 15% because the overwhelming majority of his income ($20,625,000?) is derived from his investments. The left over chump change ($375,000) is taxed at ordinary rates. Yet his overall tax rate is reportedly actually less than 15%. How he does that I don't know.
Stone deaf AND stump stupid.
One LA Times reader responded to the effect: "Banks are good people: I am Mitt Romney, Inc., and I approve this message."
What kind of a goody two shoes tries to apply political correctness to an institution?
This guy ain't no politician, he is preachy politically correct priss who should be teaching kindergarteners that it is not polite to talk bad about banks because they have feelings just like people.
Then there’s the fact that Bain took millions of dollars out of struggling companies as “fees,” many of which later went bankrupt. Keep in mind that legally Bain got to keep all that money, it was not recoverable by the creditors. Was Mitt Romney trying to “help” those companies recover, or was he just trying to cash in and let the chips fall where they may, because his money had already been made?
http://blog.timesunion.com/berkshires/kb-toys-got-buried-mitt-romney-got-paid/1662/
Mr. Romney, who remains an investor in Bain Capital said he had not been involved in those decisions but acknowledged that such payments became part of the buyout business ”very early on.”
”It is one thing that if I had a chance to go back I would be more sensitive to,” Mr. Romney said. ”It is always a balance. Great care has got to be taken not to take a dividend or a distribution from a company that puts that company at risk.” He added that taking a big payment from a company that later failed ”would make me sick, sick at heart.”
His carefully crafted, Madison Avenue designed campaign image was all sizzle and no steak. Now that we see behind the façade, he is revealed for his true self, and his polling numbers crater.
Onlookers? What a slap in the face! I don't think this reporter has much regard for the mittens.
Onlookers? What a slap in the face! I don't think this reporter has much regard for the mittens.
Saw a post the other day that said regarding Romney:
“I couldn’t warm to that guy if we were cremated together.”
Capitalism has served America well.
It is bizarre to see Newt and his supporters repeat OWS talking points in a bid to rise in the polls, no wonder Gingrich is such a self destructive personality.
And Newt thinks FDR is the greatest president ever.
Ugggghhhhh!
We’re doomed!
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany were “capitalist” as the means of production were not in the hands of the state, but it was a different kind of capitalism than what we practiced at the time. Milt’s capitalism may not be that of 1920’s Main Street USA. Criticizing Milt’s vulture or crony capitalism doesn’t necessarily make you an OWS hippie or anarchist, does it?
Buying busineses, restructing them and selling them off is as old as Capitalism itself.
Why is that crony or vulture capitalism?
If you take away risk taking and investment, it is a pathway towards socialism.
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