Posted on 01/17/2012 6:17:38 PM PST by Anti-Hillary
South Carolinians are very practical when it comes to picking politicians. We like winners and ones that look out for our state.
Thats how we get a Thurmond and a Hollings serving for decades....simultaneously (or a DeMint and a Graham).
Many see Romney as the best to defeat Obama, strong on business, and I expect him to win. (I don’t agree with it, but thats what I am getting around here). There is also a big Ron Paul vote as an Obama backlash.
I think Gingritch will come in third, with Santorum and Perry splitting 18-20% (mostly the religious folks).
I personally haven’t decided who I will actually pull the lever for, and there are a lot of other undecideds that are going to have to get off the fence shortly too.
Also, please don’t tell me I’m selectively quoting from the NY Times when I not only linked to the whole article but also to a page with links to many more articles and videos from all sources. Here’s a quote from the NY Post recounting the same incident told in the NY Times article and more:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/ad_mitt_mistakes_jRmd2LHaPIb0bbNn1ZkgaJ
“You really think it’s a good idea to borrow, you know, one times sales?” he asked.
“Oh. Yeah. Yeah. You know, that’s fine,” Barnes responded. “You know companies do that all the time.”
The executive then told Barnes, “Well, that’d be like me going out and borrowing the amount of money I make in a year and then trying to pay it off and pay for my house and feed myself and everything else. That doesn’t make sense.” The executive said he let it drop after that.
In August 2002, Dade filed for bankruptcy.
This was not an isolated case.
* Bain in 1988 put $5 million down to buy Stage Stores, and in the mid-’90s took it public, collecting $100 million from stock offerings. Stage filed for bankruptcy in 2000.
* Bain in 1992 bought American Pad & Paper (AMPAD), investing $5 million, and collected $100 million from dividends. The business filed for bankruptcy in 2000.
* Bain in 1993 invested $60 million when buying GS Industries, and received $65 million from dividends. GS filed for bankruptcy in 2001.
* Bain in 1997 invested $46 million when buying Details, and made $93 million from stock offerings. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2003.
Romney’s Bain invested 22 percent of the money it raised from 1987-95 in these five businesses, making a $578 million profit.
While I have not investigated all of Romney’s Bain investments and there may be cases where he made money and improved businesses, there’s little question he made a fortune from businesses he helped destroy.
Mitt Romney, through his spokesman, did not return calls. Bain declined comment.
Romney did:
Owned a controlling interest in Bain Capital when it took payments from five companies that later failed.
Made fortunes by bankrupting five profitable businesses that ended up firing thousands of workers.
Do you even listen to Rush, or are you busy concocting ridiculous conspiracy theories?
He has been for anybody but Romney.
Today he was gushing over Newt’s debate performance and said “conservatism won last night”.
Rush doesn’t get told by anyone what to say or who to promote.
He’s the 800 pound gorilla of talk radio.
He has never endorsed anyone in a primary except for 4 years ago, when he urged a Romney vote as a last ditch effort to stop McStain from becoming the GOP candidate.
It's probably just a matter of time before she does, and Santorum and Perry need to get out of the way, to stop Romney-the-RINO.
I think she has some names in mind that she would like to call him LOL..its like she knows if she says his name it will leave a bad taste in her mouth(Does mine too)..when she says “moderate” she really means liberal, because a moderate is a liberal, calling them a moderate is just sugar coating what they really are. She can’t stand Romney, she hates the goons that worked for him that constantly trashed her for 3+ years, ahhh sweet revenge.
Great strategic move from Sarah. A non-endorsement endorsment (at this time, in SC, keep the process going) — but combined with Todd’s endorsement, a very strong wink and nod to the SC voters while not boxing herself in.
I was hoping and praying for something like this from her to follow up on Newt’s fabulous debate last night and help push him past Mitt on Saturday.
At moments like this you have to admire her ability to play out some brilliant political strategy while making it look easy and natural.
The Great One is pulling for Little Ricky...he announced it to the Friends this morning.
sorry but Rush has been lame in stopping Romney and trashed Newt before today
he wants access
note Drudge has nothing on Sarah on Newt yet it is all over the news
Looks like Todd wasn’t exactly going rogue.
He merely jumped the gun.
I don’t think Romney’s much of a winner. See below. Newt won election in Congress for something like 30 years and created the Contract with America which helped win the House for Republicans in 1994 for the first time in decades.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/overestimating-romney_611846.html
Overestimating Romney
Aside from getting votes, he’s a great candidate.
Romney’s changes in position have followed defeats, rather than victories. He’s progressed from liberal New Republican (1994) to moderate technocrat (2002) to rock-ribbed movement conservative (2006) to sane, free-market Mr. Fix-It (2011). (The 2006 transformation came when it was clear from polling that he could not possibly win reelection as governor of Massachusetts.)
Voters just don’t like him very much. And they never have.
Romney has the least-impressive electoral history of any Republican frontrunner in a very long time.
Over the years, Mitt Romney has faced voters in 22 contests. He won 5 of those races and lost 17 of them. (This total includes a win in the 1994 Massachusetts Republican Senate primary as well as results from the 19 primaries he participated in during 2008. It excludes caucuses...
he mounted what was considered a strong challenge to incumbent senator Ted Kennedy. But when it came time to vote, Romney lost by 17 points in what turned out to be the best year for Republicans in more than half a century.
Romney was actually the fourth in a string of Republican governors who ran the state from 1990 until 2006. Of that group, Romney received the lowest percentage of the vote, failing to break the 50-percent mark in his 2002 victory.
After three years in office, Romney’s approval rating was so low that he was forced to abandon hope of reelection. Romney’s term concluded with a Democrat winning the governor’s office for the first time in 20 years.
In all 13 states, he became less popular as the year progressed. As Romney began campaigning more actively, voters became less favorably disposed toward him.
Looks like Todd wasn’t exactly going rogue.
He merely jumped the gun.
Thank you, Governor Palin!
I heard her and I am quite confident I can read between the lines of her comments. Yes, she said Newt for now; for SC. That is all she can say, given her position as a Fox commentator, given the early stage of the race too.
But she does not want the process to continue so the process may continue. You are probably not a woman, Bigtigermike, so that may not make a lot of sense to you. Sorry ‘bout that! :)
She wants the process to continue because she doesn’t want Romney to be nominated. (Clue: “Moderate” is not a nice word in the Palin dictionary.)
If she didn’t favor Newt she could have “walked back” the Todd Palin endorsement of Newt.
If she didn’t favor Newt she could have said that right now she would, if she were a South Carolinian, vote for Santorum, who tied with Romney in Iowa.
For that matter, if continuing the process were an end in itself, she could have said she’d vote for Ron Paul, who has a better claim to the anti-Romney crown than two Ricks and a Newt combined.
Good post, Yankee. Like Rush is scared of anyone—ha!
Newt’s pic is in the left hand corner with the “knock him out” quote with Queen Nancy front and center saying—Give Us Mitt!
“note Drudge has nothing on Sarah on Newt yet it is all over the news”
Drudge is in the tank for Mitt. He is probably looking for a negative way to post the Newt South Carolina endorsement.
I pray Newt takes it. nobama will beat Mittens like a dog. Our poor country cannot stand another four years of nobama. As it stands now, IMHO, it will take 20-30 years for conservatives in office just to repair the damage nobama has inflicted.
I feel sorry for the folks 50 and below. You're in for a rough ride.
I'm also very concerned that, after just three states, people are declaring the nomination to be "over." EXTREMELY unfair to the other 47 states.
Drudge has been knocking political boots with Ann Coulter for many years and his site has had a huge pro-Mitt and anti-Newt bias going for months. Even after last night’s debate, he flooded the top of his page with pro-Mitt and anti-Newt links.
Mitt Romney leads the Drudge primary
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56714.html
I noticed that about Drudge too.....he’s really pushing Mitt.
I think Palin’s call is reasonable and logical. Why let it be “over” now? That’s ludicrous with only 3 states making the call!
Now if our buddy Cain would just come out — but he seems to be off the reservation at the moment.
Honestly, though, the only endorsement I’d really like to see is that of the voters. Let’s just hope S. Carolinians are thinking straight on Saturday. I’m making calls for Newt from his web site. It’s not hard to do.
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