But Newt had a big endorsement from New Hampshire’s conservative newspaper. It’s surprising that ended up being worth nothing in the end. I am pretty sure Newt did spend time campaigning there as well.
Let’s remember that Newt didn’t start attacking Romney on Bain Capital until South Carolina. Below is more evidence that the Bain Capital attacks WORKED. Romney got almost NO votes from low-income voters. His glass jaw was shattered. And that is why if Romney is nominated in the general election, he will lose. Having real human beings show real emotion and say Romney destroyed their livelihoods for his own profit or shipped jobs overseas is devastating among that segment of voters. And in this bad economy there are a whole lot more voters sensitive to that. These attacks destroyed Romney in the 1994 Kennedy Senate race and they are probably more potent than ever now. Without the Bain attacks, we probably would have had very different election results.
“The controversy over Romney’s experience at Bain & Co. also hurt him in the Palmetto State. Twenty-eight percent of voters saw it as a negative, a substantial number, especially when looking at the lower-income voters, among whom Romney got virtually no support.”
You actually give a better explanation of Bain and just how predatory it was than the candidates.If you could redo that post I saw a few days ago, frequently, it would go along way to explain to others just how Bain borrowed money in small companies name, looted the money inthe form of dividends and then watched them struggle to pay it back many going broke in the process. Great job once again.
Being here, where our big 4 accountancy firms practice a form of vulture capitalism that makes Bain look like the church giving alms, I can agree.
(They audit a company, send it into receivership - we don’t have a chapter 11 provision - then strip it bare with fees while winding it up).
It was a strong and effective attack, and pressure should be kept up on Romney to disclose his tax returns. The Cayman Islands thing is going to sink him far worse than attacks that can be (and will be) characterised as left wing and anti capitalist. (I had that exact comment made to me on a thread I posted this morning)
But, time to change tack for Newt now and hit Romney on Romneycare. That has run long enough to actually have measurable costs associated with it, and is a good warm up for slapping the dems hard. Newt is more than capable of sticking it to Romney while cutting Obama at the same time!
Maybe give him a good belt on 2nd ammendment too, though I’d do that more for the primaries in the more rural states. It won’t fly in the cities - you know how polarizing guns are there, and with some cities I really don’t blame people.
Abortion, well, Newt may have a small problem as it is a moral issue and he has a little perceived problem with morality. Thanks to the tireless work of posters on here, we know the truth - but the average voter does not and, unless the MSM does the unthinkable and tells the truth, will not.
Newt still makes me slightly nervous, I admit. Unless I missed a ping his stance on foreign policy, which is the biggie that affects me, is largely unknown. He will make a strong president for the USA. That I firmly believe now. Just, no country exists in a vacuum any more, and we are kind of curious as to what we can expect.