Folks on “our side” who tell us that Rombama is the most electable are ignoring this stuff.
Bain + Preppy Pro-War Draft-Dodger = Huge 0bama win. As surely as night follows day.
Better that it come out now, before he gets nominated.
Well, Obama can’t talk, the venture capital firm that he co-founded and the steel mill that he purchased to try and make money...oh, wait, that’s right, he’s never done any of those things, he’s never had a real private sector job. Nevermind.
Romney is the poster boy for all that Obama’s occupy protesters scream about. If Mitt wins the nom, they will occupy him.
Not in support of Romney but just to comment on this sort of observation. There are all kinds of jobs and I wonder how the average steelmill worker would fare on a wall street trading floor or in a backroom with a few hundred excel spreadsheets to analyze. The great white shark is a pretty tough predator; drop him in Death Valley and the worms will feast. Tough and capable is usually a matter of where
Then let’s have the principled argument of capitalism versus socialism and the role of government. I don’t see any reason we should be afraid or or back away from that fight. Obama’s the one who wants to lay off thousands by cutting DoD and he’s the one who invested in Solyndra and the Chevy Volt. Bring it on!
I remember all the “buy it, loot it, shut it down” games that were perpetrated by folks like Mittens. The press and the Dems haven’t forgotten either.
With the economy in the bucket leading up to the next election, there will be no shortage of real people that lost their retirement to appear on Obama’s re-election ads. Many will blame Mittens personally for ruining their lives.
The GOP race is playing right into oBama’s hand, all according to plan.
The silver lining here is maybe the Ann Coulters etc will stop telling us Romney is the only electable candidate on the GOP side when they see he's just as vulnerable to media attacks as the others.
The Bain stuff doesn bug me as much as the preppy pro-war draft dodger. Mormon missionary crap got them out of Vietnam? Just damn.
The Reuters hit piece goes out of it's way to ignore the thousands of jobs Bain's investments made possible and focuses on a specific failure that left some blue-collar workers with no job and no money, never considering that had Romney's company not invested in the now-defunct steel mill, the same thing would have happened to the workers, only much sooner. The focus of the article, that Romney and his firm made big money on the deal while workers were left out in the cold, is technically accurate but ignores the reality that the workers were always totally vulnerable to being laid off, with or without Bain and that the money Romney and his firm made did not come from the pockets of the displaced workers. You'll never read that in a Reuters article about a GOP presidential candidate.
I can't stand Mitt Romney and think he's a total phony but this kind of attack, characterizing Romney as the fabulously rich businessman making millions while poor blue collar workers get the shaft was always going to be the Democrat's meme if Romney was nominated. It was the rationale for 'Occupy Wall Street' because Romney is 'Wall Street'. He's a target for Obama's class warfare approach to governing and campaigning, forgive the redundancy. Another reason why Romney is unacceptable to conservatives. Not only are his policies and ideology wrong but all his 'moderation' won't mean squat once the leftmedia begins it's 24/7 campaign to get Barack Obama, the worst president in modern times, re-elected. They can't use Obama's achievements because he doesn't have any. Well, maybe 'ObamaCare', which most Americans hate, so that won't work. Oh, wait. Obama did authorize the Navy SEALS to assassinate Osama bin Laden. There's that. Not much else.
Leaving the left only one option: make the election about the Republican, not Obama. I'm not at all convinced that strategy will work, no matter who the nominee turns out to be but Mitt Romney is like a gift to the Obama campaign - and a threat to conservatives who cannot accept more-of- the-same-under-a-different-label in Washington. Romney must not win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. He'll lose to Obama.
The irony is that if there is one part of Romney’s record where he truly is better than the other candidates, its his running of Bain. As the article points out, Romney was hugely successful at Bain and the success came from growing companies for the most part — creating jobs. Reuters picked out one bad investment to pound on, which is what I am sure the Dems will do to.
When a group does this, they are not businessmen, they are punks. I know 4.5 mil sounds like a lot of money, and it is, but at the level Bain was trying to play, it is chump change.
Romney claims to be a business man, a business man takes floundering companies and makes them whole and profitable.
I have been of FR now for over a month, many of my employees know I'm here, have you seen any post attacking the way I run my businesses? My employees could, if they felt they had cause, rip me apart anonymously here, but they haven't, Why? Because I don't Bain them.
Wish someone would do that kind of downsizing on the federal government...just saying