Posted on 01/28/2008 11:19:52 PM PST by Tigen
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This is garbage. Romney’s not been with Bain Capital for 10 years now. I saw people try to connect him with the Chinese defense deal that Hunter tried to pin on him, but what everyone doesn’t seem to understand is how private equity firms like Bain Capital operate. The company itself does not have ownership that Romney would own a piece of. Bain Capital consists of investments are discrete and separate from one another and can each have an entirely different mix of investors. The fund manager (Bain) would control how the fund operates—a lot like how a mutual fund works.
The likelihood that Romney is an investor in the Clear Channel deal is pretty small, so no, Romney does not have talk radio on his hook.
Your conspiracy theory would have made more sense if they had been supporting Romney all along, but they support him now because he’s more conservative than McCain or Huckabee, the only other primary winners.
Mass:Taxachusetts Robs Lawyers Who Helped It Rob the Tobacco Industry
BOSTON – A lawyer for the two law firms that helped Massachusetts win $8.3 billion as part of the 1998 tobacco settlement accused the state Tuesday of breaking promises and penalizing the firms for being too successful.
The lawyers, awarded $775 million by an arbitration panel, have sued Massachusetts to recover an additional $1.25 billion over the next 25 years they say they're owed for negotiating a landmark settlement with tobacco companies. Richlin says this amount is equivalent to $17,000 for each hour they worked on the case.
More hands in our pockets. How sweet!
First Massachusetts firefighter fired for smoking
"who is caught smoking tobacco products on or off duty."
I listen to all major talk radio and read 10 hours a day and have never found Romney described as a TRUE conservative .
This was something that occurred during the Clinton administration when state governments saw the inherent money spigot of frivolous civil litigation against legitimate corporate entities.
The ambulance-chasing parasites who initiated these lawsuits should have known beforehand that the government was going to get its take.
Public smoking foes target the holdouts/MASS
that the public's health is more important than the bar or restaurant owner's wealth.
Mass is a FARCE!
Exactly. I love how all the failings of Massachusetts now seem to fall squarely on the shoulders of Romney, even when if they had nothing to do with his policies.
Not a chance. I've heard no person say that.
I looked high and low in your post for some mention that Romney was recently endorsed by the NY Times but you left it out. What gives?
Fred Thompson couldn’t get traction because he blew his chance. The mainstream interest for Fred was HUGE over the summer, but he decided to wait to declare his intentions. By then, every other candidate was somewhat established. He also had a very lazy campaign. It might’ve worked in Tennessee, but nationwide he had to project energy. It was a huge mistake, and it was his fault.
Duncan Hunter, well, I agree with nearly everything he said, but he was unelectable. FReepers might scream over that, but its the fact, he was essentially Pat Buchanan with more sensible ideas. He was percieved as too far right by many and plus he wasn’t exactly known before the election. Hey, it’s just like Tom Tancredo, smart guys but not exactly known or big names.
We all know MSM hearts the left, but all those candidates have had doomed candidacies, one way or another.
I like Fred ,Duncan, Mike, Rush,Fox news,and I will vote for who is on the republican ticket in november.
Oh sure. Defend the Mormon. Good luck!
Oh, and by the way, obviously you have no idea what a "silent partner" means either. It pretty much means that Romney would have zero control over what Bain does.
Furthermore, of course Romney would continue to receive profits from Bain. What you fail to realize is that these residual profits would have been from investment funds he managed back when he was with the company (10 years ago!) and not any of the investment funds Bain entered into since that time. Really, you need to educate yourself on how private equity firms work.
“I looked high and low in your post for some mention that Romney was recently endorsed by the NY Times but you left it out. What gives?”
Maybe because it never happened? They endorsed McCain, and slammed all the other Republicans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/opinion/25fri2.html?ref=opinion
All of these anti-Romney threads and smears are so yesterday. Yawn..... If a tree falls in the forest....
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