Posted on 01/12/2012 6:15:07 PM PST by VinL
As a 20 year listener of Rush, I emailed him today and told him I’m done. I know he doesn’t care. Neither do many of you.
Our system is so corrupt that we have absolutely nothing to do with the outcome of this primary. We are all conditioned every day to expect the outcome already decided by the power brokers.
I’m done. I hope Newt has the balls to break this damn system into pieces even if it sets us back. I will no longer show up for Dole, Bush, McCain, Romney.
I will put my baseball cap on backwards and play Call of Duty on my PS3.
This is all such total crap. I’m pretty sure Rush could buy and sell Bain Co. if he wanted to. Rush, Hannity, and the WSJ have clearly explained the free market logic and beauty of Bain’s operations.
And while I’m at it, I think that the time and resources of “conservatives” would be much better spent making videos that attack Obama rather than Romney-—and they’d have a much easier time.
I monitor the show for professional reasons almost every day. Newt is being savaged along with Perry for what they are doing. Mitt is being savaged for his tepid “doing just what Obama did with GM” response too.
Now, Rush is wrong on the issue of attacking capitalism - some of what goes on Wall Street is part of Rush’s blind spot on economics. But that response from Rush was predictable and would have been his response long before he was part of Clear Channel and long before Bain Capital existed. It’s who he is.
But again, the money does not flow from Clear Channel to Rush. It’s the other way around. They syndicate him to their stations to make money off of him at every step of the way. He brings in the revenue, so the whole idea that he is towing the corporate line does not line up with follow the money.
It could be as simple as the fact that in his anti-Capitalist attacks on Bain & Romney
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In AMerica today, there is no such thing as captalism. Was bailing the banks capitalism- or would capitalism let them fail. Is the Fed giving free money to the banks to invest in the carry trade capitalism— or is it the plundering of the American citizens in order to save the rich? Was Bush’s record spending capitalism, or the enhancement of nanny state socialism.
The GOP does not practice capitalism— so how can they say Newt is an anti-capitalist?
Newt wasn’t attacking capitalism - he’s attacking the anti-free enterpise vultures. Over a quarter of the businesses Bain took over were stripped and decimated.
Bain bought failing businesses and either revialized them or stripped them down for liquidation. In one case they recieved a $10Million bailout from the Feds. (”According to the Globe, Romney’s company failed to repay at least $10 million to a failed bank and the rest of us had to absorb the loss. Romney and others made $4 million dollars in this deal.”)
If Romney has nothing to hide, then he should be transparent about his career at Bain and about his term a Governor of Massachusetts.
As for Newt Gingrich, Romney dumped crap and negatavism on Gingrich in Iowa because Newt was ahead in the polls. Gingrich was talking positively, not attacking anyone but Obama, and about how he intended to better the nation. Politics is like war - once you attack your opponent, you can’t start whining about the counter-attack.
Sour grapes? I think not.
Dems are now saying Solyndra = Bain. Do we really want our candidate to have that target painted on him? How will the GOP counter that now? What is going to happen to all of the anti-crony capitalism arguments that the GOP was storing up for 2012?
In the end, if Obama supports bailouts and Romney does, too, and Newt challenges them, it would be Romney and Obama putting free enterprise on trial, not Newt.
Though I went to a rally for him last year, I was ambivalent on Newt until he started attacking private business success.
This week he sounded like an Occupy Wall Streeter. This is some dangerous c(**$
He won’t make anybody in Washington afraid if he is attacking Wall Street, and I can’t remember him saying very much about Solyndra, eliminating Fanny Mae, eliminating EPA and the rest of the blood sucker’s Crony Capitalism. Wall Street needs to be corrected, but the first, survival-related job is to stop firehosing billions in tax dollars to favored companies and industries.
With his BIG money from Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac, Newt seems like the very embodiment of fat cat elite Washingtonians, not their nightmare. So he’d better figure out a way to get this straightened out quick.
Dems are now saying Solyndra = Bain.
Thanks to Newt.
yeah. Bain and Romney created thousands of jobs for workers — laid off thousands of well-paid full-time workers, and created thousands of part-time low wage jobs. But you have a point, that is part of the capitalist system. Without profit, there is no reason to keep a business running.
Of course, there is some morality involved when you claim you created thousands of jobs without telling “the rest of the story.” Kind of like Willard and his Dad George who ran as Republicans, but ran from the Republican platform, and were nowhere to be seen when there were Conservatives running.
Look, George Soros is a capitalist too. that doesn’t mean he would be a good Republican nominee for POTUS.
If my only choice is to vote for leftist 0bama, leftist Romney or 3rd party leftist Paul, I will vote for every position that has a Conservative running. I will NOT vote for Romney, EVER! NEVER! NOT EVER!
Did I make that clear?
The boogie man is behind everything. Kill the boogie man. Viva la revolution!
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Had a guy used to help break down the Wall Street stuff related to Goldman Sachs and Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer and Warren Buffet and related Wall Street/economic stuff for him.
Had being the operative word.
That seems to connect a few dots.
Try reading what Gingrich said today. He isn’t attacking free-enterprise or business, not at all.
Gingrich Decries ‘Backdoor Socialism’
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When a middle-class citizen is elected to Congress and returns home 20 years later a multi-millionaire, it is due to corruption in government. And that influence pedaling corruption may even be legal!
Businesses with government contracts and ties, political and otherwise to members of Congress, are bankrupting this nation and in some cases driving foreign policy. Our tax code, and the temptation to legislate favorable breaks for big poltical donors, just makes the situation even more grave. Is it legal? Sure. Is it good for the nation? No.
We are now $15Trillion in debt and counting. Crony capitalism, whether Democrat or Republican, must be obliterated and our government returned to being a constitutional government.
Newt Gingrich knows where all the secret ways and byways by which influence peddling moves in Washington. I can’t think of a better person to go and change Washington, D.C.
We have to change Washington in order to get our nation back on the right track.
Ironically, according to info on another thread, Bain is SENDING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS to liberal politicians who are the political enemies of what Rush preaches.
And ironically, Rush's show profits will go down as more and more people turn him off as he defends Bain/Romney's twisted, amoral breed of government-distorted "capitalism" to the advantage of Romney and at the expense of Newt Gingrich.
It’s been a while but I’ve worked around enough radio stations to know you do not talk smack about the bosses.
Doubt me? Ask Howard Stern.
I totally agree that Rush has a blind spot on this issue, and misses the fact that what Bain does is not exactly free market in action. And that Bain execs now support liberals does back this up.
As to whether it will hurt Rush or not, interesting theory.
Yeah. Becusae the DNC woulda never come up with that one /s
The Democrats have been planning on running against Romney for quite some time. He’s a rich, white man who is Mormon; a big, easy target for Dems.
Newt just brought the subject out into the light ahead of schedule.
Bain is not Rush’s boss. If they were, you’d have a point. And Rush has talked a lot of “smack” about Mitt. Some this week in fact.
So basically, you are oh for two.
The Stern issue is totally different. In so many ways. But basically he was a paid employee. Rush is a business partner so to speak.
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