To all, Please stop McCain.
We all knew Rush would be great today. RUSH: Stop caring who the media likes. Screw them!
Posted on 01/28/2008 12:14:10 PM PST by Ol' Sparky
The EcoCons and the conservative Eastern GOP elites praise the business acumen of the vain BAIN CAPITALIST of the GOP presidential race, Willard Mitt "the Flip" Romney.
According to the establishment elites, Mitt’s the ONE who understands all of that complicated economic jibber-jabber that just has to be a mystery to all of the other candidates.
And even the Gucci Chameleon himself dares voters to look at his record.
But just as when Gary Hart threw down such a gauntlet (albeit on his sleazy personal life), glancing behind the tidal wave of TV ads isn’t pretty.
If Mitt’s the job-creating, economy growing "mouse trap," then where are the mice?
According to a Reuters story, quoting Northeastern University economist Andrew Sum, Massachusetts "lagged the U.S. average during that period in job creation, economic growth and wage increases" during the Romney years.
"As a strict labour market economist looking at the record, Massachusetts did very poorly during the Romney years, he said. "On every measure you've got, the state was a substantial under-performer."
"There's never been under his watch an economic turnaround to speak of," Michael Widmer, president of the independent Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, told Reuters.
"We added a few jobs over the last three years of his tenure but very few. He also raised corporate taxes and fees and the (deficit) gap turned out to be less than $3 billion."
But that doesn’t stop Mitt from erroneously claiming that he " ‘closed a nearly $3 billion (1.5 billion pounds) budget deficit without raising taxes’ during his term in Massachusetts."
The Boston Globe story also reported the rate of job creation under Romney " was the third-lowest in the nation after Hurricane Katrina-hit Louisiana and Michigan. At the same time, wages in the New England state stagnated during Romney's term."
"The average weekly wage of Massachusetts workers, Sum said, rose by just a $1 between 2001 and 2006 after adjusting for inflation, while the state had the third-highest rate of population loss in the nation between July 2002 and July 2006."
Not a very good record for an alleged business wunderkind.
Perhaps if there was a "Club for [almost no] Growth," Mitt could president of it!
A lot of blue collar workers and tradesmen lost jobs due to the Alien Invasion, including landscapers, eh Myth?
But OTOH, note that Massachusetts leads the entire U.S. average in the per-capita number of landscapers and house household cleaning persons.
What was McLame’s total again?
I didn’t bother to read the article. The first sentence or two failed to advocate a candidate.
What viable candidate is this thread supporting?
Stay tuned for another chapter of...
Mythical Mitt’s Adventures!
Look, I’ve said it for months now, Mitt Romney is a pathological liar.
And with a legislature full of Stalinists, creating a single job would be miraculous.
Context is everything.
It’s like saying my 80 pound son scored zero touchdowns this season, and leaving out the fact that he was up against 200 pound tacklers.
Probably Huck, if you call him viable.
Well put. More condemnations from people who probably never even visited New England, let alone Massachusetts.
Business owners and a steady flow of customers is how jobs are created. Governments can only get in the way more often than not.
TUT TUT
You also have to keep in mind that the liberal entrenched democrats did everything in their power to sabotage his governorship. Just as Pelosi and Reid do to W.
Why would any sane business owner move their business to Mitt’s Massachusetts?
This article would have some merit if he had a GOP controlled legislature. Then the criticism would be justified.
What viable candidate is this thread supporting?”
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There’s no “viable candidate” still standing, kid
As for RINO Romney.....
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.. James 1:8
RINO Romney’s endorsement of Rocky Anderson,
LIBERAL DEMOCRAT for Mayor of Salt Lake City 2003
RINO Romneys backing of liberal Democrats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuFe9_BCvXY
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/us/22rocky.html
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/03/youtube_wars_ro_1.html
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19672
Failure should not be rewarded.
Just say NO to Massachusetts liberal RINOs !
Keep bashing the guy. Then you can bash McCain, Rudy and Huck....
Then you will have 8 years of Hillary/Obama to whine about.
Tuttman ! Never forget the Maucks !
Yulk yulk
Mitty going to win!
Mitty going to win!
Hehehe!:)
None of the above !
I would have thought that would hurt Hucabee a lot more than Mitt. Arkansas is a lot closer to the border.
You do love your failed liberals, don’t you ?
Another October Surprise from the McCain dirty tricks campaign?
That said, there is nothing that can be said against Mitt that would ever make me vote for MeCain.
So he can be pushed around by left wing dems in Mass, that makes him qualified to be pushed around by left wing dems in Congress.
Eh?
:)
Whom do you recommend we vote for as a stronger creator of jobs?
No place is far enough away. The invasion has swept the nation from unguarded border to unguarded border.
All I see on this thread are the normal behaviors of MittBots, excuse any and all problems that Mitt himself created for himself.
Just a bunch of irrelevant excuses for his failures as Chief Excecutive of Massachusetts.
Apologies to any who feel I am spamming this message on campaign threads, but it is an important message on a key vote which needs to get out.
Riiiiight...and he going to beat Hillary with SUCH facts. Give me a break!
RINO Romney...Mr ABORTION in Massachusetts
Romney’s Universal Health Care package has $50 ABORTIONS
http://www.blogsforfredthompson.com/romney-massachusetts-health-plan-included-50-abortions
No, since the thread is questioning Mitt Romney's qualifications in terms of job creation, I think it's fair to compare his record with the record of the other candidates, don't you?
Heck, include those who aren't even running any more. How about Fred Thompson's record on job creation? Can we see those numbers while we're beating Mitt over the head?
Too late, we’re voting for Mitt!
Hi TN
Dont you have an illegal alien invasion in your town ???
The illegal aliens get smuggled up a pipe line right through TN
Up I-75 Chattanooga to Knoxville and beyond to NY and elsewhere...
They catch them down here just about every day
Van loads..going to the NE..you know, Rudyvilla, and TeddyMitt Cuidad ...
“Well put. More condemnations from people who probably never even visited New England, let alone Massachusetts.”
Excuse please... lived there most of my life, but worked mostly in Connecticut. Jobs are non-existant in MA... except for mostly temporary contract positions... unless your a lawyer or government hack. Left the state in July 2005, because the tech fields were dead for three years straight. Any opportunity I had in the area came by way of Connecticut 98 percent of the time. Massachusetts just plain sucks... always has and always will. Libs and RINOs killed the state... both culturally and economically.
Ron Paul: The Perfect as the Enemy of the Good.
Rudy Giuliani Enacted Pro-Growth Policies Despite Liberal New York Environment.
Arizona Senator John McCain's Tenuous Record as an Economic Conservative.
All summaries are linked if you want to read the entire white paper by a reliable source.
There ya go. ;-)
It’s called a super-majority liberal Democratic legislature.
Yeah, but he faced the mASS legislature.
Besides, who else is there now? McVain? Chuckabee?
This is an excerpt I will post the rest on a thread in a minute.
WHAT RUSH LIMBAUGH AND MITT ROMNEY DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW
If you have listened to talk radio or perused a conservative column in the last 60 days, you know two things. Mitt Romney is a true conservative and the next best thing to Ronald Wilson Reagan and Mike Huckabee is either a dangerous liberal that would tear the GOP apart or, he’s a one-trick pony that appeals to right-wing religious weirdoes only. More on the contradictory descriptions of Huckabee later, first let’s examine the Republican media establishment’s exuberant adoration of the man they call Mitt.
Originally, there were to be three acceptable choices the right-wing media elites would champion. All three had large corporate backing and each had their group of insiders on K street. Unfortunately, once the posturing was over and the voting began, the Republican primary attendees had the unmitigated gall to vote for someone who wasn’t one of “The Chosen.” Things were further complicated when one of the triumvirate decided he would rather play the part of a District Attorney on TV then a presidential candidate in real life. Another acceptable candidate took a cue from his fellow New Yorkers and retired to South Florida rather than run a national campaign. This left Mitt Romney, the one-term governor from Massachusetts as the only viable candidate in the eyes of the chattering class. One problem. The former governor was a brie cheese and wine-class, socially liberal, flip-flopping politician from the most far-left state in the union. These folks had spent all of 2004 convincing people that John Kerry (who fit that exact description himself) would be a disaster for the country. What is a principled political wag to do?
Governor Romney had something going for him besides personal wealth and central casting looks. The governor was the founder of Bain Capital, a private equity group. The company specializes in leverage buyouts and made billions of dollars throughout the eighties and nineties. This is the company that made Mitt Romney a wealthy man, with a net worth around $250,000,000. Romney, who stepped down in 1999 when he took over the Salt Lake City Olympics, is still a silent partner in the company and, according to the governor’s financial disclosure, will continue to receive profits from Bain Capital through February 2009. These facts alone might seem innocuous enough, but consider the latest acquisition Bain has its eye on.
Clear Channel Communications is a media giant by any definition of the word. This behemoth owns more than 1,200 radio stations as well as syndication companies and billboard advertising. The company owns Premier Radio Network which has the syndication rights to the Rush Limbaugh show, Glen Beck and a host of others. Premier boasts more than 90 radio shows in its stable and offers services to more than 4,600 affiliates. Clear channel also has a lucrative contract with Sean Hannity, which agrees to air his program on 80 of their stations through 2010. In addition, nearly every talk radio host in America relies on Clear Channel stations for a large portion of their audience. Talkers like Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham and Mike Gallagher would suffer greatly if they were cut out by Clear Channel.
In a deal that has been in the works for some time, Bain Capital is leading a consortium that has offered to buy Clear Channel for the tidy sum of 19.5 BILLION dollars. The FCC recently approved the acquisition and Clear Channel execs expect the transaction to be finalized sometime in the first quarter of 2008. The fact that Romney’s company is purchasing CCC isn’t a problem. The governor’s liberal past and the way it’s being covered up and explained away is another matter.
Most talking heads and pundits will stipulate that Mitt was wrong on abortion until he studied stem-cell research and saw the light. However, in 2002 Mitt said, “I am in favor of stem cell research. I will work and fight for stem cell research. I’d be happy to talk to (President Bush) about this, though I don’t know if I could budge him an inch.” Romney also supported a government mandated health care plan that fined people for not participating and offered abortion on demand for $50. (Somewhere Hillary Clinton just said, “Amen.”) There are other disturbing inconsistencies in Romney’s record but you’ll have to do your own research to find them. The inside the beltway boys and girls are mum when it comes to Mitt’s other transgressions against conservative orthodoxy. Here are some of Mitt’s greatest hits.
“I will preserve and protect a women’s right to choose and am devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard”
“We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts; I support them. I won’t chip away at them; I believe they protect us and provide for our safety.”
“I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush”
Along with those gems Romney has supported a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants that would not require them to leave the country and has opposed amendments to ban gay marriage. Despite these facts, we’re led to believe by the Clear Channel Crowd that Barry Goldwater has returned and, this time, he’s from Massachusetts.
Yeah, absolutely. There's one section of Nashville, that doesn't even bother to put their signs in English anymore.
Interestingly, Arkansas has less than 1/2 the illegals that TN, does and 1/3 that of Mass.
Your link doesn’t work.
Then you should know better than to swallow everything posted on this thread.
To get out of Fast Eddie Rendell’s Pennsylvania
Where did Massachusetts start when Mitt took over? Was it booming and he shrank it? Or was it very weak already, and did it improve?
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