Fire whom? Romney draws flak on eve of NH Primary

APNEWS ^ | Jan 9, 9:46 PM (ET) | By DAVID ESPO and KASIE HUNT

[onyx]

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) - Republican front-runner Mitt Romney stumbled down the homestretch of the New Hampshire primary on Monday, declaring, "I like being able to fire people who provide services to me" as his rivals intensified already fierce criticism.

"Gov. Romney enjoys firing people. I enjoy creating jobs," said former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who has staked his candidacy on a strong showing in Tuesday's primary and has shown signs of gaining ground in recent polls.

Adding insult to any injury, Texas Gov. Rick Perry posted a ringtone to his campaign website that consisted of Romney saying, "I like being able to fire people," over and over.

Romney is the odds-on favorite in New Hampshire, and Huntsman as well as other Republicans who are contesting the state have generally been content to vie for second place in hopes of emerging as his main rival in the South Carolina primary on Jan. 21.

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[onyx]

GO NEWT!

GO PERRY!

[onyx]

Thanks DJ! LOL.

[coloradan]

I thought “whom” was to be used when the object of a preposition. Since “fire” is not one, it should be “Fire who?”

[Intolerant in NJ]

"Gov. Romney enjoys firing people...I'd love to be able to fire Obama - not such a bad idea given the right people.....

[DJ MacWoW]

[TitansAFC]

I love that Romney is already cracking under Newt’s Bain pressure.

LOL

[ez]

Romney has sunk from 43 to 41 to 40 to 39 to 35 to 33 over the last six days. These are two day rolling averages so the numbers are actuallt worse, iow to sink from 39 to 35 on a two day average you must poll at 31. I think he will bottom out tomorrow at around 28/29%. Paul, Huntsman, and Gingrich have been the beneficiaries while Santorum has faded one or two points. Unless the polls are wrong, which they frequently are in NH, these results will not shake the campaign up and all will survive.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Yep, I wish I was a billionaire, I would give 100 million to a super pack dedicated to destroying Romney.

[Brown Deer]

Parley Pratt was shot and stabbed to death in Arkansas by the legal husband of Pratt's 12th wife.

1 Parley Parker PRATT b: 12 APR 1807 d: 13 MAY 1857 ..+ Mary WOOD b: 18 JUN 1818 d: 5 MAR 1898 ....2 Helaman PRATT b: 31 MAY 1846 d: 26 NOV 1909 ......+ Anna Dorothea Johanna WILCKEN b: 25 JUL 1854 d: 22 JUN 1929 ........3 Anna Amelia PRATT b: 6 MAY 1876 d: 4 FEB 1926 ..........+ Gaskell ROMNEY b: 22 SEP 1871 d: 9 MAR 1955 ............4 George Wilcken ROMNEY b: 8 JUL 1907 d: 26 JUL 1995 ..............+ Lenore Emily LAFOUNT b: 9 NOV 1908 d: 7 JUL 1998 ................5 Willard Mitt ROMNEY b: 12 MAR 1947 ..+ Belinda MARDEN b: 24 DEC 1820 d: 19 FEB 1894 ....2 Isabella Eleanor Marden PRATT b: 1 SEP 1854 d: 23 APR 1912 ......+ Franklin Alonzo ROBISON b: 19 JUL 1851 d: 17 OCT 1936 ........3 Joseph Alfred ROBISON b: 1 NOV 1876 d: 23 JUN 1950 ..........+ Mary Elizabeth KEITH b: 17 AUG 1875 d: 7 MAR 1925 ............4 Sarah Kathleen ROBISON b: 4 DEC 1910 d: 8 APR 1969 ..............+ Alonzo Blaine HUNTSMAN b: 5 OCT 1910 d: 23 JUN 1990 ................5 Jon Meade HUNTSMAN b: 1937 ..................+ Karen Christina HAIGHT b: 24 MAR 1938 ....................6 Jon Meade HUNTSMAN, Jr, b: 26 MAR 1960

[katiedidit1]

Romney has bragged on being a job creator. Noone has verified the 100,000 jobs he claims to have created...sounds like Obamanomics and very fuzzy math. Look, Mitt has made Bain a huge part of his campaign ...a mantra of sorts. The voters need to know the other side of the story and for those that think RomObama should get a free pass on this...get your paws off the baloney. We investigate and find out the truth, vet our candidates and yes, Romney will be exposed ..like it or not. Romney: Bain Capital If you read Mitt Romney's books or any profile on him, a lot is made of his time as the head of Bain Capital. It's where he made his fortune. It's where he gets all this "I've been in the business sector" and "I know how to create jobs because I did just that at Bain Capital" stuff. But there's a darker side to private equity — the buying up of companies in order to saddle them with debt or break them apart, earning the investors millions and destroying the company and the lives of its (former) employees. At least seven companies that Bain Capital bought or invested in, mostly during the nineties when Romney was there, went bankrupt despite generating profits of over half a billion dollars for the fund. Several thousand people lost their jobs in the process. What's more, some of those companies were actually successful before Bain Capital showed up. American Pad and Paper, GST Steel, DDI Corp … the list goes on and on. This history of layoffs — at odds with Romney's "I've created jobs" mantra — was partly what helped sink his 1994 bid for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. Responding to a question from NBC's Brian Williams, Romney said: "We tried to make these businesses more successful. By the way, they didn't all work. When it was all said and done, we added tens of thousands of jobs to the businesses we helped support." There were success stories, to be sure, particularly office-supply chain Staples and Indiana-based Steel Dynamics. But Romney’s rhetoric ignores the fact that private-equity companies like Bain are better known for destroying jobs than for creating them.

[montag813]

"I will f**king destroy Mitt Romney...I will make it my mission in life!"

Do it! Wreck the despicable creep. Do whatever it takes. Do we want McCain Part Deux, Obama re-elected and America destroyed? No way in hell!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Pining for Palin
http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/303768/pining-for-palin#comments_block

[annieokie]

me too, kinda tinglely. Go Newt.

[annieokie]

WOW, so Romney and Huntsman are kin. Once, twice, three times removed on the auntie mothers side, or something like that.

[onyx]

I just watched Greta -— maybe it was the replay -— but Byron York was a guest and guess what I learned about the 27 minute film, “When Mitt Romney Came To Town”?

The featured company, a steel manufacturing company, was located in .....drum roll.....SOUTH CAROLINA!

Who’s the smartest guy in every room!!!!

GO NEWT!

[onyx]

I can’t figure this out at this late hour, save for the fact that Huntsman and Romney are somehow related, right?

[onyx]

It’s all settled. Greta spoke with Todd via telephone.

He endorsed Newt Gingrich.

He used the words “proven reformer.”

[b9]

Oooo, juicy!

[byteback]

Well if Greta had Todd on the phone this race is certainly over

[Caipirabob]