Posted on 05/22/2012 8:00:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The core of his presidential candidacy under attack, Mitt Romney has yet to shape a playbook to defend a quarter-century in the business world that created great riches for himself and great hardship, at times, for some American workers.
Romney and his aides have struggled to respond consistently to intensifying criticism about his tenure at Bain Capital and how it would be reflected in his presidency. The lack of a cohesive message stems, in part, from Romney's fundamental belief that any debate that puts the economy front and center is a win for Republicans. Public polling shows most Americans are not satisfied with the pace of the recovery under Obama's watch.
The election, Romney aides say, will be a referendum on Obama's economic leadership far more than a question of Romney's business career, regardless of how much Democrats highlight that issue.
So far, Romney aides have let Democrats — led by President Barack Obama — do most of the talking.
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If Romney doesn’t start fighting with bare knuckles, he’s gonna lose this thing before he’s nominated.
Romney better come up with a strategy regarding the Bain Capital issue because it is the main issue that Obama is going to use against Romney.
There are a "few" other items on the plate that could be discussed prior to the election.
Who, other than Marxists, would even look at it that way?
RINOmney’s play book is easy.
Just find a weathervane.
Place a circular compass-like diagram below, and place an “explanation” at each 15 degree mark.
Take the assembly outside.
Each 30 minutes, note which “explanation” lies under the pointer, and publish it.
This is harder than the Obamadork’s playbook. For him, just choose an appropriate lie from any of his “books”. This easy...as it involves opening the book and pointing to any sentence.
When you have Booker and Anderson Cooper fighting for you just stand back and watch it happen. Obooboo is going down hard this time around.
They need to punch back with an ad that shows how much of taxpayers money obama “invested” and lost - starting with the trillion dollar stimulus. Nothing to show for any of it.
Bain Capital is the only issue that can be very effective against Romney due to the “emotional” stuff involved in it, i.e. workers are being fired by Romney, etc… As I said Romney cannot let this issue be won by Obama because if Obama wins it then Romney is going to lose the elections. Romney cannot ignore this as the “Cool CEO” with a smile on his face … “Cool CEO” does not win elections in particular in this environment… I have always warned that Bain Capital is Romney weakest point, but I guess any person with an IQ over 80 would have figured this out… Again Romney must come up with a strong and effective strategy on the Bain Capital issue, and must do it very quickly…
Is Bain Capital an Obama supporter ? If it is the Obama minions have already gone through all documents involving Romney ,so more to come
Compare job for job, number of jobs lost under Bain Capital and number of jobs lost under Obama’s presidency. Should not be that hard.
Even the usually fawning media is being critical of Dear Leader's strategy on this one.
It's a complete loser for Obama. It will be dropped sometime next week and they'll go back to Romney the Demon Barber of Christopher Street.
When the enemy is self-destructing with infighting over an issue, you sit back and watch. Or come at them from another angle. The whole Bain thing is doing far more damage to the obastard non-team than to Romney.
Near the end of the movie, he gave this speech - and it was the turning point in the movie. He suddenly went from 'evil' destroyer - to the voice of reason
Lawrence Garfield: [In response to Jorgy's speech] Amen. And amen. And amen. You have to forgive me. I'm not familiar with the local custom. Where I come from, you always say "Amen" after you hear a prayer. Because that's what you just heard - a prayer. Where I come from, that particular prayer is called "The Prayer for the Dead." You just heard The Prayer for the Dead, my fellow stockholders, and you didn't say, "Amen." This company is dead. I didn't kill it. Don't blame me. It was dead when I got here. It's too late for prayers. For even if the prayers were answered, and a miracle occurred, and the yen did this, and the dollar did that, and the infrastructure did the other thing, we would still be dead. You know why? Fiber optics. New technologies. Obsolescence. We're dead alright. We're just not broke. And you know the surest way to go broke? Keep getting an increasing share of a shrinking market. Down the tubes. Slow but sure. You know, at one time there must've been dozens of companies making buggy whips. And I'll bet the last company around was the one that made the best goddamn buggy whip you ever saw. Now how would you have liked to have been a stockholder in that company? You invested in a business and this business is dead. Let's have the intelligence, let's have the decency to sign the death certificate, collect the insurance, and invest in something with a future. "Ah, but we can't," goes the prayer. "We can't because we have responsibility, a responsibility to our employees, to our community. What will happen to them?" I got two words for that: Who cares? Care about them? Why? They didn't care about you. They sucked you dry. You have no responsibility to them. For the last ten years this company bled your money. Did this community ever say, "We know times are tough. We'll lower taxes, reduce water and sewer." Check it out: You're paying twice what you did ten years ago. And our devoted employees, who have taken no increases for the past three years, are still making twice what they made ten years ago; and our stock - one-sixth what it was ten years ago. Who cares? I'll tell you. Me. I'm not your best friend. I'm your only friend. I don't make anything? I'm making you money. And lest we forget, that's the only reason any of you became stockholders in the first place. You want to make money! You don't care if they manufacture wire and cable, fried chicken, or grow tangerines! You want to make money! I'm the only friend you've got. I'm making you money. Take the money. Invest it somewhere else. Maybe, maybe you'll get lucky and it'll be used productively. And if it is, you'll create new jobs and provide a service for the economy and, God forbid, even make a few bucks for yourselves. And if anybody asks, tell 'em ya gave at the plant. And by the way, it pleases me that I am called "Larry the Liquidator." You know why, fellow stockholders? Because at my funeral, you'll leave with a smile on your face and a few bucks in your pocket. Now that's a funeral worth having!
Probably biding his time for debate season. Rebut too early and folks forget - like hitting the nitro too early in a drag race...
Didn’t the campaign cut an ad on this yesterday? That they’re using Dims’ mouths rather than their own doesn’t mean they just roll over. And the ad, IMO, is quite effective that it made Chris Matthew cry.
PERFECT!!!
romney needs to hit back with gm bond holders and car dealers that lost everything to the unions
also, even a low level businessman would not be stupid enough to lose billions on loser companies
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