[nwrep]

An ironic slap in the face of the Freepers who claim Romney is just another liberal.

You can't accuse Myth of being both a liberal and a heartless capitalist who likes to fire people.

[GeronL]

You can be a liberal and be a capitalist. See Soros, Buffett, Gates, Peter Lewis et al...

Leftists probably do like to fire people, non-government employees anyway

[rwilson99]

Actually he is the worst of both...

For example a heartless capitalist would never have a problem with $50 tax payer subsidized abortions...

After all that baby isn’t going to be getting a job tomorrow now, is it?

[The_Reader_David]

You can't accuse Myth of being both a liberal and a heartless capitalist who likes to fire people.

Why not? There are lots of such folks on Wall Street: absolutely ruthless in running their business, don't care a wit about anyone around them, but back every expansion of state power on the plea that it will "save the earth", "protect a woman's right to chose", "is for the children", . . .

The one thing that suggests Willard shouldn't be called a "liberal" is not his delight in firing people, but the fact that "liberals" don't give away their own money to charity: they expect the state to do what charity should out of tax dollars.

The best thing that can be said for him is in the context of Massachusetts politics, the GOP followed the Buckley rule and ran the most conservative electable candidate. (Sad comment on Massachusetts.)

[Sideshow Bob]

"You can't accuse Myth of being both a liberal and a heartless capitalist who likes to fire people."

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Why not? You don't believe that heartless capitalists are liberal? If anything, I think most heartless capitalists are social or religious liberals.

And the converse is also true. I think it is difficult - if not impossible - for anyone who is a social or religious conservative to be a heartless capitalist.