[bobk333]

Newt Gingrich is a Socialist and his supporters are Socialists.

They do not understand Capitalism.

Let companies run their businesses in the best way they see fit.

It is very revealing the way Newt is dancing around this mess. It is the same way he dances around everything else. He is always either apologizing for everything he did before he was a candidate or he is dancing. It’s like when he said his $1.6 million payoff from Fannie Mae was “free enterprise.”

Newt is a slimy character. Please do not believe anything he says.

Newt and his supporters do not understand capitalism and free enterprise. They are underneath essentially socialists.

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[Utmost Certainty]

Would probably help if you actually listened to Newt's explanation. It's unfortunate many Republicans don't seem to understand it.

This is not a Left-tard kind of attack. Newt's case is simple:

1) Romney's vaunted "private sector experience", is of a particular kind that's going to represent a huge liability in the general election. Nobody's asserting that Bain Capital's actions were necessarily illegitimate nor unlawful, but it's obvious that Romney was no white knight of heroic, entrepreneurial capitalism.

2) Questions on business ethics are legitimate inquiries that one should have to answer for, especially if they're running for public office—these are not attacks on capitalism, and it's completely goofy that some are construing it that way. Those advocating a "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" attitude towards private enterprise activity, aren't doing capitalism any favors.

Selling out capitalism in the defense of Romney and Bain

Even ZeroHedge doesn't defend Romney's record as a 'capitalist':

"Lately, Bain founder and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has found himself in a spirited defense of the private equity industry, doing all he can to spin decades of data which confirm, without failure, that PE Leveraged Buy Outs are nothing but "efficiency maximizing" transactions whose only goal is the "maximization" of EBITDA in the pursuit of dividend recap deals, IPOs or outright sales, while loading up the company with untenable amounts of leverage. All this with a 3-5 year investment horizon, which ignores the long-term viability of a company and seeks to streamline (read fire as many as possible) operations as quickly as possible in the goal of maximizing short-term returns. We wish him luck in his endeavor."

Shame we have so many wannabe Capitalistas here at FR and elsewhere, who adamantly defend this kind of shuck and jive financial paper shuffling as exemplary acts of free-market enterprise.

[RobinWWJD]

You are completely wrong. I support Newt and find him to be closest to Reagan when it comes to the economy, individual rights, and turning this country around and back onto the RIGHT track.

Newt is no socialist, and neither am I. You might want to reconsider your judgemental attitude, or at least remove that plank from your eye first.

[CainConservative]

“Let companies run their businesses in the best way they see fit.”

Madoff and Milken 100% agree with you.

Letting the taxpayers pony up for Vulture Willard’s greed is NOT capitalism. But it could be criminal.

Let the voters decide THAT now or in November. Either way, Willard the Lib is toast. And I’m fine with THAT.

[Nonstatist]

Newt is a slimy character. Please do not believe anything he says. Newt and his supporters do not understand capitalism and free enterprise. They are underneath essentially socialists.

Hear! Hear! Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is not your friend... Newt is a fraud, and its about time people opened their eyes to it.

[NavyCanDo]

For all the reasons we haven’t supported Romney, we can say the same about Newt. From belief in man-made global warming, to defending some elements of Obamacare, to even flip flopping, their both guilty. So why the man-crush for Newt on FR ? I just don’t get it. What has changed about him since just a few months ago when he was in the single digits, and Cain and Perry were battling for top spot? Nothing. Look back at the FR archive, and you scarcely find a kind word about Newt on FR. He is the same Newt we didn’t like 5 or 6 months ago.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

I’ve lost all confidence in Newt. He has a serious case of perpetual hoof-in-mouth disease. We need someone more self disciplined than Newt.

[manc]

the establishment had no problem though with Romney running those ad’s and telling lies.

Romney and nutbag Paul can piss off

[American Constitutionalist]

How about back in May on Meet the Press when he said he supports individual mandates for Obamacare, and the next day or a few days later he came out against it, or did he say he had to reclarify what he said ?

[Question Liberal Authority]

Newt Gingrich is a Socialist and his supporters are Socialists.

How can you say that when Newt changes his position every 15 minutes? He started surging when he told the Occupy crowd to get a haircut and get a bath. He started dropping when he snarled about Mitt needing to give the money back that he made bankrupting companies. Then he really tanked when he doubled down on that line of attack.

Maybe he'll say something two days from now that will cause another surge of support. He seems to have a knack for being able to tell people what they want to hear, hence the many wives. And he seems to have a knack for having to apologize often. Hence, the line of credit at Tiffany's.

[Gene Eric]

>> They do not understand Capitalism.

Really?

Trading shares is not the embodiment of Capitalism — that activity depends on Capitalism. Capitalism can exist without a public shares market, but not vice versa.

There’s this naive perception that one cannot be a Capitalist unless the practice of value manipulation is accepted as being a good thing.