Posted on 12/12/2011 3:47:29 PM PST by americanophile
Newt Gingrich today laid into Romney today for his record at Bain Capital, suggesting Romney got rich off others’ misery and alluding to Romney’s ill-thought-out $10,000 bet from Saturday’s debate. “I would just say if Governor Romney would like to give back all the money he has earned from bankrupting and laying off employees over his years at Bain, then I would be glad to then listen to him, and I bet you $10 -- not $10,000 -- that he wouldn’t take the offer,” Gingrich said. The remarks came in response to Romney’s criticism of the money Gingrich earned working for Freddie Mac.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Earnings paid by Americans taxpayers. Gingrich cares about one thing ... me, me, me.
Newt’s lack of understanding of the private sector is showing.
Mitt did what venture capitalists do. Not all ventures succeed brilliantly... duh. Not all ventures fail either.
These comments from Newt and some of his other recent remarks reveal him to not be as sharp as he likes people to think he is.
The Occupiers are just a group of socialists and a bunch of useful idiots under their control. The useful idiots are there to mumble “Ya know, they got some good points.”
As for Gingrich, I cannot trust him. Yet, if he becomes the nominee, here I go again. Voting and hoping. Will he really reform the tax code and cut government— or will he just plow the field and plant the seed for the next full blown socialist regime to waltz into place? Yeah, yeah, deep down I know the answer.
Santorum addressed the need to revive manufacturing (in rural and small town America) in answer to first debate question last Sat. night. As always, he has the most specific responses.
We need to get tough economically, not militarily, with China. Why doesn't this happen?
“I do not like Gingrich, dislike Romney even more-so, but isnt that what Mr. Gingrich is saying here?”
Here is exactly what Mr. Gingrich is saying here: “I would just say if Governor Romney would like to give back all the money he has earned from bankrupting and laying off employees over his years at Bain, then I would be glad to then listen to him,”
So, Romney is supposed to give back all the money he made so that Gingrich will listen to him? I don’t think so!
I read the article as accusatory remarks concerning making money without really earning it. Neither was accusing the other of doing anything illegal or even wrong. Mitt fired the first salvo and Newt fired back. I didn’t read anything into Newt’s statement concerning his philosophy on capitalism, and those who did are really stretching things.
“I do not like Gingrich, dislike Romney even more-so, but isnt that what Mr. Gingrich is saying here?”
Here is exactly what Mr. Gingrich is saying here: “I would just say if Governor Romney would like to give back all the money he has earned from bankrupting and laying off employees over his years at Bain, then I would be glad to then listen to him,”
So, Romney is supposed to give back all the money he made so that Gingrich will listen to him? I don’t think so!
No, he can slam Romney, but do it on Romney’s record (there’s plenty there), you don’t have to go half-cocked anti-capitalist, which is what this is. So much to like about Newt, but he’s undeniably a loose cannon.
Well, people might think he should do that with the federal government. But there is no indication that's what Romney thinks he should do, or that he will do anything other than what he did as Massachusetts governor, and expand the size of government dramatically...
So how do you feel about Romney's original slam of Newt. Shouldn't he have done so based on his public service and record? Or do those rules only apply to everyone other than Romney?
P.S. I'm not a Gingrich supporter. But I can smell hypocrisy from a mile away...
It would seem that Roney had sosmething to do with a lot of people losing their jobs in companies he owned. Roineney may be a Temple Priest, but he is no angel.
Read “Can Mitt Ronney Serve Two Masters?”, by Tricia Erickson. She has the full story.
I didn’t especially care for Romney’s line of attack either. Though peddling influence as former Speaker for bankrupt, taxpayer bailed-out Fanny Mae, which Gingrich himself slams, is a ripe target, and Ron Paul already zinged him on it.
step right, step right up folks, its crap vs crap sandwich! with an easy to win elections the dumb Old party trots out its best big gov candidates! its repeal and replace(instead of repeal and ...NOTHING!!) the gop will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory! hey and we can get Hannity and the grate one to bitch at us real conservatives when we rail against their guys.
whooooooooooo hooooooooooooo its repeal and replace! because everyone knows a bill with a little r by its name is better than a bill with a little d by its name! yes republicans can write a better government healthcare bill you just ask’m they’ll tell ya
To be fair, Newt, you could afford a $10,000 bet.
Gingrich sounds like and OWSr on this one.
Mitt 'Hussein' Romney and Bain are behind the 911 Victory Mosque sale.
“Bain Capital, has cut checks totaling $90,000 to Romney’s operation. “
Given my feelings about Islam, were there any truth to that, I would be very concerned. Bain Capital purchased Burlington Coat Factory, which had a store in the building. Burlington apparently rented the space from the owners, the Pomerantz family, who had owned the building since the mid 1960s. It was the Pomerantz family who sold it to El-Gamal, the current re-developer, who wants to turn it into a mosque. It doesn’t have anything to do with Bain Capital, and certainly not Romney, who left Bain Capital in 1999 anyway - 2 years before 9/11. Your post is just wrong.
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