Posted on 01/09/2012 10:01:52 PM PST by Saundra Duffy
In a press release this afternoon, Club for Growth criticized Newt Gingrich for his attacks on Mitt Romney’s career at Bain Capital, calling them unbecoming a “Reagan Conservative.” Club for Growth’s statement:
Yesterday, Gingrich said “Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that in fact the whole goal of investment is entrepreneurship and job creation…we find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company, leaving behind 1,700 families without a job.” Gingrich’s attack was echoed that same day that by the Democratic National Committee, which also attacked Romney for his job creation record at Bain Capital.
“Newt Gingrich’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital are disgusting,” said Club for Growth President Chris Chocola. “There are a number of issues for Mitt Romney’s Republican opponents to attack him for, but attacking him for making investments in companies to create a profit for his investors is just wrong. Because of the efforts of Bain Capital, major companies like Staples, Domino’s Pizza, and the Sports Authority now employ thousands of people and have created billions in wealth in the private economy. Attacking Governor Romney for participating in free-market capitalism is just beyond the pale for any purported ‘Reagan Conservative.’ Newt Gingrich should stop his attacks on free markets and apologize to Governor Romney for them.”
I am supporting Paul, Newt was my second. When Newt is good he is very very good, but when Newt is bad .....
One just never knows what direction Newt is going to take off on. I had hoped he'd settled down and knew that he believed in but I guess not. Principles matter! Guess I am all in for Paul now.
What’s Newt’s strategy for the general, run to the Left of Obama. I can see it now, a Newt commercial attacking Obama for being stingy with welfare handouts.
I find it fundamentally wrong that a rich man can fire a poor man solely for the propose of saving money,money that the rich man has vast amounts of. If elected I will institute a local community board that will determine if the poor man does in fact deserved to be fired.
I think of bald guys talking about going swimming and picking up young women.
You got to be kidding. I’m sensing a bit of irony here, or you are posting from Havana. Is that you, Fidel.
Newt's debate clips: Why is Newt so Angry? Pass it on to everyone you know.
Newt the smartest guy in the room. And c'mon, don't you really want to see Newt debate Obama?
Ask yourself, "Why is everyone dumping on Newt?" Why was so much spent on assaulting Newt in Iowa? It's Capitalism vs Socialism. American exceptionalism vs Marxism. It's your call America!
Newt/Sarah 2012!
“Where in the h@ll does Newt think venture capital comes from for small business and entrepreneurs these days?”
Look back to the story of Simmons. It’s only an example, but it’s an example of a profitable American manufacturing firm being taken private by a PE firm that destroyed it. I’m willing to bet it’s not alone.
2009:
Profits for Buyout Firms as Company Debt Soared
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?pagewanted=all
By JULIE CRESWELL
Published: October 4, 2009
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2012:
The Wall Street Journal
BUSINESS
JANUARY 9, 2012
Romney at Bain: Big Gains, Some Busts
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204331304577140850713493694.html
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Some are dumping on Newt because his stance in the Bain Capital controversy puts him on the Socialism/Marxism side.
“Actually I think Gingrich would make a great VP candidate”
Actually I think Romney would make a great Democrat.
oops did I forget the /s tag? lol, sorry I was channeling Newt.
That works both ways. I reject Paul’s principles. I am old enough to have read what Senator Taft stood for, and Paul is more of an isolationist than Taft was in 1940 or ‘48
FLIP SLICK WILLARD RINO ROMNEY is NOT a conservative, in fact he is a degenerate con man, liar, cult member, and filthy parasite.
“Capitalists” like him end up swinging from a rope.
FLIP SLICK WILLARD RINO ROMNEYS cultist father has THREE GRANDMOTHERS!!!
Romney’s grandparents were polygamous Mormons who fled the United States with their children because of the federal government’s opposition to polygamy.[1] His maternal grandfather was Helaman Pratt (1846–1909), who presided over the Mormon mission in Mexico City before moving to the state of Chihuahua and who was the son of original Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt (1807–1857).[2][3] Romney’s uncle Rey L. Pratt (1878–1931) would in the 1920s play a major role in the preservation and expansion of the Mormon presence in Mexico and in its introduction to South America.[4] A more distant kinsman was George Romney (1734–1802), a noted portrait painter in Britain during the last quarter of the 18th century.[5]
George Wilcken Romney’s parents were American citizens Gaskell Romney (1871–1955) and Anna Amelia Pratt (1876-1926); they married in 1895 in Mexico and lived in Colonia Dublán, Galeana, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua (one of the Mormon colonies in Mexico) where George was born on July 8, 1907.[1][3][6] They practiced monogamy.[1] George had three older brothers and would gain two more brothers and a sister.[7] Gaskell Romney was a successful carpenter, house builder, and farmer who headed the most prosperous family in the colony.[8][9]
The Mexican Revolution broke out in 1910 and the Mormon colonies were endangered in 1911–1912 by raids from marauders,[10] including “Red Flaggers” Pascual Orozco and José Inés Salazar.[11] Young George heard the sound of distant gunfire and saw rebels walking through the village streets.[11][12] The Romney family fled and returned to the United States in July 1912, leaving their home and almost all of their property behind.[1][13] Romney would later say, “We were the first displaced persons of the 20th century.”[14]
Paul is a non-interventionist not an Isolationist.
Politics is war...so in the case of taking Romney down...any method is valid if it brings us a conservative. I could care less what ‘conservatives’ think...hell most of these so-called real conservatives take out their own.
Companies like Bain serve a function, but generally it is negative. Not destructiveness is a necessary part of a capitalist system. I compare them with eagles, who eat carrion and cull the weak of a species.
Saundra, why not admit that your are bigoted in favor of Mormons?
But regarding Bain, there is a fine line between venture capitlist and vulture capitalist. I suspect we will soon know where Mitt falls on that spectrum and I guarantee much worse will be thrown at Rmney by Dems should he be the nominee.
We have yet to see the ‘crazy Mormon’ attacks that the Republicans are too polte to start but Obama will certainly unleash.
Only you know and I know what a bunch of faggy little open borders, free traitor libertarians the Club for Growth is. They are like Cato but smaller. They aren’t all bad, neither is Cato. But you know what I mean
No problem. I have become so jaded by this campaign, I wouldn’t be surprised that this is proposed by Perry, Santorum or Gingrich in the next couple of weeks. And then cheered by the FR crowd. Who knows, Harry Reid might seem like Barry Goldwater by the time this all ends. Ronaldus Maximus must be spinning in his grave right now. The current state of the Two Pary system, one party the Democrats are Hard Left, while the other the Republicans are insane.
Newt’s old collegues!
“...After only four years with his Party still in power, his own members forced him out...”
Oh yeah, and many of those Republicans are still in Congress. They are part of the ongoing problem of business as usual in Washignton, D.C. Under a Republican president, they added over $3 trillion to the federal deficit, shunned conservative policy in favor of Beltway influence-peddling, and so damaged the GOP brand that we lost the majority Gingrich had worked years to forge.
Do you really think I give a damn that Newt’s fabulous colleagues think his reemergence would be a disaster for Republicans? No.
The elections of 2010 were NOT a merit promotion; the Republicans were the only alternative in town!
Captialism is about growth and building things, creating wealth - not tearing things down or screwing workers over!
The only reason Saundra Duffy supports Romney is because he is a fellow Mormon. That, dear Saundra, is a poor reason to support a man who is basically anti-Republican and a liberal stool pigeon.
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