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Rick Santorum’s camp hits Mitt Romney on Bain tenure
The Washington Post ^ | March 19, 2012 | By Felicia Sonmez

Posted on 03/19/2012 10:32:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s campaign is taking aim at rival Mitt Romney’s tenure at the helm of Bain Capital.....

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Back in January, when Perry and Gingrich were hitting the former Massachusetts governor hard on his Bain tenure, Santorum had told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, “I hate to sit here and be a defender of Mitt Romney, but to me this is federal capitalism, and I have to say that this is an attack probably not warranted.”

“Bain Capital, at least from the record I looked at, had a lot of success,” Santorum said at the time. “I mean they weren’t a company that has a long track of record basically destroying the companies and selling off the pieces. They had some situations where they had failures but every company does.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anticapitalist; anticapitalistrick; bain; cronycapitalism; economy; jobs; newtgingrich; pseudoconservative; romney2012; santorum; santorum2012
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1 posted on 03/19/2012 10:32:48 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

WOW!!!!

Somebody at the Washington ComPost just had multiple brain orgasms!!!

An opportunity to slam TWO Republican candidates in ONE ARTICLE!!

(And Nothing - NADA - EVER - about the Phoney-in-Chief ensconced in the Oval Office.)


2 posted on 03/19/2012 10:37:33 AM PDT by ZULU (LIBERATE HAGIA SOPHIA!!!!!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

All Mittwit and Lil Ricky are doing is helping obama save money. They are so busy attacking and mud slinging that there will be nothing left for obama to use. They are killing eachother.

Morons!


3 posted on 03/19/2012 10:43:27 AM PDT by mardi59
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Well, Santorum is right that we don’t need someone with Romney’s crony-capitalist acumen in office.


4 posted on 03/19/2012 10:44:07 AM PDT by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State | Gingrich 2012)
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To: ZULU
I wonder will Rush go after Santorum for a couple of days over this, like he did Perry and Newt?????

Hmmmmmm????

Maybe some of us should E-mail Rush and ask him if he now has some doubts about what Santorum will be fighting for, one day to the next.

5 posted on 03/19/2012 10:47:02 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; Marguerite; sodpoodle; Right_in_Virginia; Gator113; CynicalBear; ...
Is there anything of Newt's that Santorum won't copy?
6 posted on 03/19/2012 10:49:59 AM PDT by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: onyx
I Suwannee Santorum would have endorsed Newt if he'd run in 2008 [VIDEO]
7 posted on 03/19/2012 10:52:54 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: onyx

Yes there is. His record of adultery.

You asked.


8 posted on 03/19/2012 10:53:05 AM PDT by dforest
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To: dforest

I am glad you are so sure of that. Just because someone’s sins are not ‘public’ does not mean they are not there. It is best not to be so cock sure of things that you really do not know. Just an observation.


9 posted on 03/19/2012 10:56:14 AM PDT by dt57 (illerate, noobie....)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I wonder will Rush go after Santorum for a couple of days over this, like he did Perry and Newt????? Hmmmmmm????

NOT A CHANCE!

Perry and Newt had to go!

"Wall Street financier,” claimed the newly enlightened Santorum!

10 posted on 03/19/2012 10:56:32 AM PDT by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: dt57

The door was left open, so I walked through it;)


11 posted on 03/19/2012 10:58:21 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Bump!


12 posted on 03/19/2012 10:59:26 AM PDT by txrangerette ("HOLD TO THE TRUTH...SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR" - Glenn Beck)
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To: dforest

Don’t be so haughty! You’ve probably jinxed Rick now!


13 posted on 03/19/2012 10:59:51 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

LOL. The same guy who endorsed Romney in ‘08.

He’s a talker all right.


14 posted on 03/19/2012 11:00:29 AM PDT by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: onyx
Also wondering if Mark Levin is going to criticize Santorum for his “assault on capitalism” as he did with Newt???
15 posted on 03/19/2012 11:03:07 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romney - Santorum: Twin Sons of Different Mothers...)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I love this one...Rick and Newt together at Pac....asked question....Santorum scratching his head right from the get go with more than a dah moment. He passes to Newt who promptly gives an answer....

Video Short but makes a statement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wDknt8RdyY&feature=related


16 posted on 03/19/2012 11:08:11 AM PDT by caww
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To: onyx

I keep saying don’t underestimate Newt....here’s someone who doesn’t either.....

“The thing I remember about Newt, we came to Congress together at the same time - ‘78... When Newt showed up he said,... ‘we can become the majority, we can take back the House of Representatives.’

We hadn’t had the House since the 1940’s. And initially, none of us believed him..... But he was persistent and he was tenacious.... He kept it up, kept it up, kept it up.

Finally by ‘94 he’s the newly elected speaker of the House of Representatives with a Republican majority... So I wouldn’t underestimate him.”.....’Chenney’


17 posted on 03/19/2012 11:16:11 AM PDT by caww
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Yes and he should have done so long time ago. Romney would lose the elections to Obama mainly on the Bain Capital issue, that is unless the gas prices are still high by elections day and then he would have a good chance to beat Obama but in that case even a ham sandwich would have a good chance of beating Obama.

When Gingrich and Perry brought the Bain Capital issue few months ago they were quickly shutdown by many on our side and of course the establishment Republican who support Romney under the claim that attacking on Romney Bain Capital is an attack on Capitalism and that is absolute BS. Bain Capital is not the Capitalism that majority of Americans believes including a majority of conservatives and it represents the ugly side of business and most importantly it is a great political loser.

Someone wisely said: Capitalism can defeat Obama but Bain Capital cannot”.

18 posted on 03/19/2012 11:16:21 AM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops)
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To: dforest

Be careful of those open doors friend, sometimes there is a trap door on the other side. I have walked through them a few times. I remember once speaking with real passion on behalf of my beloved Pastor as his innocense, only to find that I was very wrong. I would have bet my last penny he was an honorable man. Few of us get through life without making really bad mistakes, at least once and sometimes twice. Let’s not turn Rick into a saint just yet.


19 posted on 03/19/2012 11:16:53 AM PDT by dt57 (illerate, noobie....)
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To: onyx

“Is there anything of Newt’s that Santorum won’t copy?”

Newt’s cheerfulness :)


20 posted on 03/19/2012 11:17:16 AM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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