Posted on 01/11/2012 1:45:23 PM PST by Lakeshark
Politico has a story about Newt agreeing not to go after Romney any more about Bain, and Newt was just on Hannity’s radio show on the issue. (I’ll post the audio if I can get it.)
Newt said there are three or four instances where the record is really bad and Romney needs to defend it. Newt said the challenge is not to the model but how Romney acted in specific instances, and how odd it is that Romney runs on his business record but doesn’t want to discuss the record.
Newt made the point that it is impossible to discuss the issue without being accused of class warfare by people trying to protect Romney, but the issue will come up if Romney is the nominee without knowing how much it would hurt Romney.
Newt did not back away from the issue, but said he is moving on.
You know my position. Newt is making a purely political decision to move on. Once he lost Rush and Hannity on the issue — wrongly I believe — it no longer was politically tenable.
So we will go through the primary process and possibly nominate someone with a potentially devastating electability problem. The electablility problem will not go away, we just will not find out how bad it is until September and October 2012.
So add Bain to the list of things we cannot discuss, for fear of being labeled anti-capitalist. Along with Jeremiah Wright, for fear of being called racist.
Your last statement is spot on.
Face it, Willard would have to be found to be George Soros’ sex slave before many here would start to ask questions about his ethics or business practices. I honestly think if it was discovered tomorrow that he alone ran Enron and Solyndra and did all the paperwork for the GM and Chrysler bailouts people would defend him on the grounds of he’s a “capitalist”.
Just remember conservatives, we aren’t allowed to discuss Bain, TARP, the GM bailout, abortion, Mormonism, or any Romney flip flops for the next five years if Romney is elected. Our GOP Overlords have spoken.
You might want to discuss the Romney/Bain Capital connection a whole lot more if you read the write-up about Romney,Bain and the LDS in the latest issue of Vanity Fair.
VF is not my favorite magazine because of its liberal bent, but the article presents a lot of info I hadn’t heard and it’s pretty obvious the writer is not enamoured of romney.
The only criticism of capitalist companies allowed is after they fail. See Enron, GF Global, Madoff.
The VF article, if true, reveals a lot about Romney’s personality and character.
[Without Bain’s involvement, nearly all of the companies Bain became involved with would no longer exist.
Bain gets involved when a company is ALREADY IN TROUBLE!]
That’s what Carl Icahn does too. Why don’t you look up his glorious history.
Vulture capitalists don’t pick on strong companies, they attack ones that are struggling. Hyenas also serve a useful purpose, but describing them as cute furry lapdogs is ludicrous.
Rush is wrong
Bankruptcy or Bain and taxpayer bailout apparently was the situation more than once.
If you don’t believe that for a second than you seriously underestimate the power of the MSM and the Obama political machine. They will make mincemeat out of Romney. Take a good look at the political/economic climate we are in. Obama will make Romney the poster boy of “greedy wall street bankers” and the MSM the sycophants that they are will echo this narrative at nauseum. I’ll respond to you in November with an I told you so!!!
I was going to vote for Newt until he started sounding like Michael Moore. Now I have no one to vote for.
If we don’t discuss Bain during the primary, Obana will discuss it during the general election and we all know what that will lead to.
Since it has apparently now become fashionable for conservatives to adopt the anticipated arguments of the left, perhaps Newt will follow up on this latest misguided effort by attacking Santorum for being “anti-choice”, “homophobic”, and a “religious nut case”.
To the employees
To the pension fund
To the taxpayers?
Attack him for anything else. But not that.
Well get ready to attack a bunch of libtards if that socialized medicine and gay marriage-loving RINO Romney is the Republican nominee in the Fall. The libs will have a field day running "Saint Obama" of the 99% against the Wall Street 1%er that put people out of work, didn't pay his "fair share" of taxes, put money in his pocket while sticking the US government with the rest of the tab.
“I recently joined this site because I heard it was solidly conservative.?
Oh? From who?
There is a difference between private venture capital bailing out private industry and public money bailing out a union for political purposes. Romney’s company provided money for companies that were going under to save them. These were jobs that were going away sooner. They did this not out of charity, but to eventually turn a profit and the failing companies took the money to stay afloat. That is not evil, that is not wrong and they deserve all the profit they got for the risk. His attacks were not legit, and he admitted it earlier today in SC. Romney’s statement was to insulate himself from Obama’s campaign using Newt’s attack again him. Obama backed failing companies using our money and lost our cash which ended up in the pockets of the unions. This has happened time and time again only not just unions, he’d using our cash to give to his contributors so they can launder it in the form of democrat campaign cash.
We have a lot to dislike about Romney but being a venture capitalist is not one of them. He’s a flip-flopper on social issues and healthcare but people are starting the class envy talk around here and it’s sounding like a socialist teach-in.
Newt has been taken to task for everything he’s done. Again, you’re starting to sound like a democrat by saying recalling Newt’s record is an attack. he sat on the couch with Pelowsy. He advocated for a “cap and trade”, he backed the rino in NY 23 and bad mouthed the conservative. He tries real hard to be smarter than the next person and at times he’s been to cute by half. He’s a great idea person and he’s a seasoned political operative that would make a great president but his first thought is to solve problems with government.
Life is short and if you don’t like Rush, nobody is forcing you to listen.
A work associate, if it matters.
“A work associate, if it matters.”
Someone who posts here? Maybe I know them?
I don’t know...but he didn’t mention you when he told me about the site...lol
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