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Romney Must Get Personal Over Bain Capital Attacks
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 1/12/2012 | David Hogberg

Posted on 01/12/2012 2:23:40 PM PST by Slyscribe

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1 posted on 01/12/2012 2:23:45 PM PST by Slyscribe
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To: Slyscribe

If he would only do us all a favor and just get out of the race.


2 posted on 01/12/2012 2:29:17 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: EGPWS
Newt's performance in the debates earned him a position at the top of the polls, even in Iowa. Slick Willard Romney saw the nomination slipping away from him, so he fought back the only way he knows how to fight - he unleashed the barrage of ads from the "PAC of lies" on Gingrich just before Iowa, which temporarily drove Newt's numbers way down.

The viciousness of attack ads and blatant lies were also intended to throw Newt off-balance and make irrational mistakes. That part didn't work. In fact, it backfired.

Newt coldly gave Romney a fair warning in the NH debates, basically along these lines:
"If you stop telling lies about me, I won't [have to] tell the truth about you."

Newt, face-to-face, gentlemanly gave a chance for Romney to back off and call off the attack dogs. Mitt was visibly shaken, yet he pressed on. (Newt Gingrich eyed as main rival - Strategies skip Santorum - FR / BG, 2012-01-07)

à la guerre comme à la guerre, and now, how the tables have turned.

Even before the ad ran, it became obvious that it is Romney who is off-balance, off his game, acting "zany" and he is lousy when unscripted - "I like firing people" and comparing his work at Bain to Obama's bailout of UAW at GM and Chrysler... just two days after the warning?

What's worse, he can't explain anything (Bush redux), he just deflects by blaming Newt, either himself or through the elites in media and bought endorsers (35 Romney endorsers received contributions first). Those who think that resume-padding, privileged, mean, easily shaken or stirred, unbalanced, not thinking fast on his feet John McCain Mitt Romney is a good "electable" nominee, they belong to the Stupid Party.

Trying to deflect direct hits on Romney's exaggerated or false claims about his stellar "executive experience" or "jobs creation" or "ethics" - which will be coming from Dems, fast and furious, if he is the nominee - by labeling them as "attack on capitalism" is just playing the same game as Democrats do by accusing people who are troubled by EPA regulations, unions, failing schools and teacher's unions etc., of being "anti-environment, anti-working-class, anti-middle-class, anti-education" etc.

Don't fall for this liberal line of attack, because they can't defend the indefensible. Stating certain "inconvenient facts" about Soros, Buffett, Burkle, just to name a few, doesn't make one an anti-capitalist. This isn't about "capitalism," this is about Debunking the Myth.

More / details at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2831668/posts?page=33#33 - Right wing rips Gingrich, Perry for attacks on Romney, capitalism (Rush, WSJ) - 2012-01-11

3 posted on 01/12/2012 2:33:13 PM PST by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: EGPWS

After the Bain train passes , it will be time to bring out the Tiffany bills , the huge fine , the reason he was removed from congress and on and on . The fat man has run out of gas .


4 posted on 01/12/2012 2:36:11 PM PST by fantom (,)
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To: Slyscribe
Romney Must Get Personal Over Bain Capital Attacks
Yes, because Willard Romney only ever "gets personal" against conservative candidates like Perry or Gingrich. Romney's "campaign" is asset stripping the activist base of the GOP as ruthlessly as Bain Capital liquidates U.S. manufacturers in favor of low-wage retail jobs at Staples or Dominos.

Go Mitt! And by "go" I mean to straight to hell.
5 posted on 01/12/2012 2:36:21 PM PST by Timaeus (Willard Mitt Romney Delenda Est)
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To: Slyscribe
- they might work in the general election.

- they might work in the general election?

LOL!!!! The Investors Business Daily have becomes masters of the obvious.

6 posted on 01/12/2012 2:36:58 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: EGPWS

Yes, I wish Mitt would get out of the race too !


7 posted on 01/12/2012 2:36:58 PM PST by Reagan69 (I supported Sarah Palin and all I got was a lousy DVD !)
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To: Slyscribe
- they might work in the general election.

- they might work in the general election?

LOL!!!! The Investors Business Daily have becomes masters of the obvious.

8 posted on 01/12/2012 2:37:20 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: Slyscribe
conservatives have rallied to Romney's defense

Conservatives? What part of idiots do we not understand. Is it that Newt does not have the right to attack back after Romney destroyed him in Iowa and the so called conservatives destroy him in NH. Some fun, right?

9 posted on 01/12/2012 2:38:35 PM PST by Logical me
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To: Logical me

People vested in maintaining the GOP Status Quo have rallied to Romney’s defense.


10 posted on 01/12/2012 2:39:48 PM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: fantom

You Mitt-wits are whistling past the graveyard if you think this won’t be THE issue in the general campaign.


11 posted on 01/12/2012 2:40:15 PM PST by Reagan69 (I supported Sarah Palin and all I got was a lousy DVD !)
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To: CutePuppy
And we very well could see a race of whose government health care plan is the better democrat plan.

If so, Romney will bet skewered by 0bama politically and vualla....another 4 years.

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0bama is the better liberal and doesn't have to lie to state that he is one.

12 posted on 01/12/2012 2:46:05 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: fantom
The Bain train hasn't even started. The Dems are going to eat Romney alive.

Dems Prepare To Hammer Romney With The REAL Bain Onslaught (Newt's ad just the appetizer)

13 posted on 01/12/2012 2:46:36 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: dfwgator
People vested in maintaining the GOP Status Quo have rallied to Romney’s defense.

Conservatives will be "McCained" once again.

The GOP is on it's way out for the democrat party has better liberals than the Republican party does.

14 posted on 01/12/2012 2:51:23 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: fantom

Romney is going to lose—maybe not the nomination, that remains to be seen—but surely the election.

He is the most uninspiring, phony, oily used car salesmanish candidate, and the media will be MORE than happy to paint him as that and more. They will show NO restraint in attacking him.

And those who tried to sound the warning of what an awful candidate he would be will take NO COMFORT in it because it will be TOO LATE. Four more years of the Marxist and our ticket to hell on earth.

I pray he doesn’t get the nod.


15 posted on 01/12/2012 3:09:42 PM PST by Shelayne
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To: Reagan69

Newt was the only sitting Speaker ever to receive a reprimand and a fine. 85% of his GOP colleagues voted to reprimand him. If Newt getsw the nomination, that will be one of the biggest issues in the general campaign along with his womanizing and multiple marriages.


16 posted on 01/12/2012 3:30:55 PM PST by kabar
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To: kabar; Reagan69

It’s already been beaten to death.


17 posted on 01/12/2012 3:41:13 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: kabar; Reagan69

18 posted on 01/12/2012 3:42:45 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: Slyscribe

Gay supporting, $50 abortion benefit, government mandated healthcare, anti-gun, tax-raising, company-looter placemarker

... and he claims to be a conservative? Which part??


19 posted on 01/12/2012 3:43:00 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (You know, 99.99999965% of the lawyers give all of them a bad name)
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To: John Valentine

I know....”might work”.........

Good lord we are so screwed.


20 posted on 01/12/2012 3:47:04 PM PST by moehoward
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