Posted on 01/11/2012 2:25:35 PM PST by mitchell001
Today, Rush Limbaugh said a Politico writer saw Romney on CBS today. Romney equated Bain Capital's mode of operation to be the same as what Obama did to retool General Motors. Rush said to pull the car over to curb, before I tell you the above. He could believe that Romney would say this and step into this dodo. Maybe Newt is correct about Romney's inability to debate Obama? Did anyone else hear Rush talk about this today or see the segment with Romney on CBS?
It’s on The Blaze. He made the comparison.
Newt sure got results with his fake to the left and his hard curve ball to the right again, ha? I love it.
Romney likens work at Bain Capital to Obama’s auto industry bailout
http://thehill.com/video/campaign/203497-romney-likens-work-at-bain-to-obamas-auto-industry-bailout
Newt Romney can just debate himself, depending on what month it is.
I hope 10 months is enough time to perfect how I will hold my nose when I have no other choice but to vote for Romney.
He stinks. I just can’t bear the thought of sitting on the sidelines and allowing the WORST President ever another 4 years. The thread this country hangs by is one SC Justice.
Look at the knuckleheads this idiot has appointed.
How can Romney debate on the topic when he agrees with Obama on it?
Did u see what Romney did as gov. when it came to appointing sup. court judges?
He is NO BETTER than Obama......PERIOD.
Probably just trying to defuse Obama’s inevitable demonization ahead of time. It was the wrong time and political party for this particular justifiation, though.
As I heard the clip, I made a distinction between the concept that the government lost millions of jobs when it took over GM, and did not hear any comparison at all. Just me. I think Rush was off on this one, and I’m no fan of the Mittster.
He didn’t quote politico. He quoted The Hill.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2831602/posts
Are you sitting down? If you’re driving, you might want to pull off to the side of the road here. “[S]peaking Wednesday on CBS, Romney said that what he did [with Bain Capital] was no different...” Are you sitting down? Are you paying very close attention? Look at me. Do I have you here? According to TheHill.com and Jonathan Easley. Today on CBS, “Romney said that what he did [with Bain Capital] was no different” Dadelut dadelut dadelut! from what Barack Obama did bailing out the auto industry. Thud! Kerplunk! You’ve got to be kidding me. The next paragraph is a quote from Romney. Are you still sitting down?
“In the general election I’ll be pointing out that the president took the reins at General Motors and Chrysler — closed factories, closed dealerships, laid off thousands and thousands of workers — he did it to try to save the business.” So TheHill.com is reporting that Romney on CBS today said that what he did with Bain Capital is no different than what Obama did in taking over the auto companies. Obama had to lay people off; Obama had to streamline the place to make them profitable. So he’s accepting the premise that Newt and Perry have put out there, apparently, that he has gone into these companies with a chainsaw — and now he is using Obama and what he did at General Motors and Chrysler as: Hey, the president did it! Now, General Motors and Chrysler are not profitable, and... (sigh)
True, he didn't say, "it's just like what Obama did." However, when you point out the GM and Chrysler situation and follow that with "we also," it's a fair assumption to say he's making the comparison to Obama's takover and Bain business practices.
He follows that up by saying he's going to cut Washington down to size and it's too big. I don't have a problem with either, but it plays into the distortion of his latest "I like being able to fire people" comment.
In a very short span, he's provided a lot of ammo. Not very deft. On the plus side, maybe that'll wake some people up during the upcoming primaries. He's not the guy we need.
Snips: When it comes to their records and personal traits, the similarities (listed) are undeniable.
But what really makes them so similar is each man's record. It's true that Obama is pro-choice and Romney isn't. And Romney says he'll repeal Dodd-Frank -- the financial-sector regulation that Obama signed. But on the big-ticket issues of the Obama era, it's harder than you'd think to find issues on which Romney would have gone a different way.
TARP
Obama is the only person to vote for the Troubled Asset Relief Program as a senator and then oversee it as president. Romney's stance? In 2010 he told Fox News' Neil Cavuto that bailing out the banks "was the right thing to do" because it was "an investment made to try and keep a collapse of our entire financial system from occurring."
Stimulus
Romney has consistently sounded the common refrain that the stimulus "didn't work," but in 2009, a couple of weeks before Obama's inauguration and a couple of months before passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Romney told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that "I think there is a need for economic stimulus. Americans have lost about $11 trillion in net worth" and "government can help make that up in a very difficult time."
Payroll-Tax Cut
On the one piece of Obama's jobs package that he's been able to get passed -- the payroll-tax cut -- Romney is still with Obama. He called for a payroll-tax cut in his 2009 USA Today op-ed that also called for renewing the Bush tax cuts and creating tax credits for small businesses to hire employees. Obama did both.
GM Bailout
Though Romney is known for his widely read New York Times op-ed titled, "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt," if you've actually read it, you know that he argues for the same kind of structured bankruptcy that Obama required as a condition for loaning GM the money that it used to recently retake its place as the world's number one seller of automobiles.
Obamneycare
As GOP presidential also-ran Rick Santorum wrote in this week's National Review, "The Romneycare individual mandate is essentially the same as the Obamacare individual mandate." But you already knew that.
I have to hand it to Newt. Without even releasing the supposedly offending film yet, he has induced Romney to shove both feet in his mouth.
Of course Obama did the same thing. He fired thousands, he bankrupted innocent pension funds that held GM debt. He also walked away, just like Romney did, as the "target" (GM) fails, and GM is failing.
Tomorrow it will be "RomneyCare is OK. Obama did it too!"
This are the best reasons NOT to vote for Romney.
"I can wreck America just like Obama. Look at my record. It's the same as his!" - Mitt Romney
Rush has been talking about both sides of his mouth between today and yesterday.
Newt was correct to point out Mittwit’s hypocrisy in standing as a white knoight helping failing businesses, whenh he was actually looting them. The costs got transferred to others(unemployment payments to unemployed workers and bankruptcy robbing from providers of goods and services to the lotted company)while Romney and his cohort pocketed the cash assets.
That is not a model of capitalism.
Capitalism builds and looting destroys.
Rush stepped in it yesterday, sayign that Newt was pulling a Perot, in it only to punish Romney. I thought he would apologize for that today, but he reveled in the attention his quote got on the cable TV news last night. In fact, the Dems and RINOS used Rush’s quote ad nauseum to make their point in slamming Newt for pointing out a legitimate weakness of Romney’s.
Today, he tried to equivocate by criticizing Romney, who daid he was doing the same thing as Obama in “saving” GM. Romney completely mischaracterized what Obama did, and Rush said so. But by doing so, Rush not only demonstrated the fatal weakness of going with Romney, but the ridiculous position he took yesterday against Newt.
Newt was right. Rush was wrong. And nuance has nothing to do with it.
Romney was a looter, and you cannot build an economic model of growth on looting. Romney lies again, and gets caught, and everyone is yelling at Newt.
UFB.
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