Posted on 10/09/2007 11:40:55 AM PDT by teddyballgame
Among all the Republican candidates for president, the chronically striving Romney might be the smartest guy in the room. Armed with a law degree and a master's of business administration from Harvard, he's the well-prepped answer man on health care and immigration, and quick-draw responder to the urgent events of the media moment. Staples would be one of the great American business success stories. It's an $18 billion company with 1,700 stores. Christensen, now a professor at Harvard Business School, describes Romney as "a great helicopter pilot. He can go down to the level of detail to see what a person needs and can go up to see the big picture and then fly away when he has the right people in place," Christensen said.
Romney's personal wealth, now estimated at up to $250 million, soared on the wings of his success.
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Holy smokes! He got an MBA and a law degree simultaneously - from Harvard! Yikes! That is very impressive.
The thing I like about Mitt is that he is always a gentleman, and polite to everyone. That level of civility is very refreshing.
Will it win him the nomination? We’ll see, ay?
Actually, I think all eyes will be on the candidate that bitch slaps chrissy mathews repeatedly tonight.
read the link - it tells why the gun issue is the view straight into the belief system of the politician.
I bet your other issues will correlate nearly 100% with this one issue.
Taxes - trust the individual or the government
Property rights - ditto
social programs - ditto
and, oh, the abortion issue - the unborn baby IS an individual human, so, ditto above.
“A president can’t govern a country on his own.”
Really? I didn’t know that.
The parts of previous debates I have seen involving R's are not terribly inspiring.
“Actually, I think all eyes will be on the candidate that bitch slaps chrissy mathews repeatedly tonight.”
Excellent point. Any bets? I’m laying McCain 2:1, Gulliani 3:1.
You have to watch Mitt he might have a different position today than he has ever had before..
This is a very hateful and revealing question. What do YOU know about Duncan Hunter? Probably very little.
And I want to confess that for me, success as an entrepeneur in the private sector, while laudable, is a very weak qualifier for the office of President. I am more impressed with character, honesty, consistency and principle. These Duncaln Hunter has in abundance, and so to at least two other Republican contenders.
Mitt Romney is not one of them.
They get hired for their ability to produce results and those results are created through providing leadership and context for people to follow.
The CEO doesn’t run sales, they don’t run marketing, ops, finance or engineering. He/she runs the team that handle those functions. If the team works well and the results are there then you have a good CEO. If the wrong people remain in the jobs then obviously you don’t have one.
You know, Duncan Hunter is my favorite candidate. It is a sad sad time in our Country that such a sound, decent honest, man can’t get off the ground with the GOP. Hence, I have turned my sights on the next best thing. Yes, I am a ABH voter (anyone but Hillary)
After Hunter and Tancredo I like Mitt Romney, which is risky to admit on Free Republic ~grin~
You could say this about just about anyone who has become successful. Plus, it says that he is intelligent and wise enough to get the right people around him.
This nomination is Romney’s to lose and Fred’s to win. Both Rudy and McLame are out of it.
This is exactly why I support Romney, and what a great metaphorical description - a helicopter pilot that can zoom small and big picture.
IMO the American people aren't going to buy (from a Republican candidate) the weak and unsophisticated arguments of the first and second Bush campaigns. Especially since we now see how Bush turned out to be. For the Republican candidate to have any chance to win, he must have the intellectual power to argue without having to resort to meatheaded repetition and populism - that's the Democrat's game. Romney's shear intellectual capacity gives him the ability to transcend the media and communicate the the American people. Any other candidate is going to get steamrolled, even if they win, like Bush has...as the conservative movement continues to die for lack of eloquent leadership.
The 100%ers would rather defend their shrinking ground with a wounded, poorly-armed but ideologically pure soldier rather than a skilled and armed soldier with an impure past. Noble, but you lose the battle and the war.
If you want to see a bitchslap artfully applied, you want to watch Fred Thompson’s slap-down of Michael Moore. If Fred can come up with something similar tonight and apply it to Chris Matthews or Hillary Clinton, I think he sews up the nomination.
As to "pimping' my candidate, Hunter needs no one to "pimp" for him and as to "your candidate," you jump to the conclusion that I have actually chosen one.
As to running businesses, because a millionaire who inherits money and doesn't lose it all, is NOT suggestive of being a great president (witness GW Bush.)
We can only hope
Sooooo when the President starts making decisions that screw with your ability to make a living that’s not important? When they think that raising taxes and take your money that’s not a problem? When they spend money we don’t have, that’s okay?
Ecomonics is one of the things that make us a hyper power in the world.
Wow. Rommey’s got a law degree. Doesn’t damn near every politician?
Fred has a law degree AND experience practicing it, plus plenty of experience in government. Plus Fred is a conservative.
Well, Mitt is the slickest guy in the room anyway.
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