Vultures must fly low to nibble on the carrion.

Why is Newt getting so desperate? He clearly has no chance in the nomination, so why is he hell bent on ripping Romney apart?? 

Romney will win the nomination regardless, so Newt is better off donating all this ad money to charity OR going on another shopping spree at Tiffany’s… OR on producing another movie about “history.”

It depends if what Romney calls Free Enterprise falls into your definition.  If free enterprise is buying a company with little or no debt and then leveraging the balance sheet by taking on loads of debt NOT to put back into the company, but to take that debt and line your pockets.  Doing so knowing that you will then sell off the scraps and put the company in bankruptcy, then ok, I guess your allowed to call that Free Enterprise, but I sure wish he wouldn’t call it that because it sure makes it sound dirty.

It’s not illegal, and it does fall into the very large scope of “Free Enterprise”.  But is it moral, is it ethical?  Even if you don’t have consideration for the very employees that helped make that company, what about the creditors and investors your harming in the process.  His name shouldn’t be MITT Romney…it should be ME and Mine Romney and to heck with the rest of your.

For the love of money, I hope he just takes his and goes on down the road.  I vote for people who have ethics and morals despite what the law may allow you to do, that doesn’t mean you should.

I think the first act of desperation came from Romney when all of a sudden Newt was on top of the polls in Iowa….so Romney spent 3.5 million disparaging Newt in everyway possible.  Now he calls Newt and others desperate….lol.  What is good for the goose is good for the buzzard!!

Hopefully you are not talking about gingrich,he of the 3 wives and bills up the wazoo,for instance Tiffaneys..Spent most of his life in the government….that interview this am sounded as silly as the fool you represent…..

Forgot to mention Adelson,,,with all his billions,guess a few million to invest in a loser is just pocket change to him.Didn’t newtie “consult”with and for a venture capitlist firm?

I guess Fox News is all-in on Romney.

Ego.

Bear in mind that this shows up one of the HAZARDS of SuperPacs: since the person or cause that’s being advanced cannot ‘coordinate’ with the SuperPac in any way, a SuperPac like this one has to take it signals indirectly, such as by public pronouncements by the candidate. In this case, we learned several weeks ago, around the time when Newt was quite a bit higher in the polling of likely GOP primary voters, that a Las Vegas Republican money bags guy was considering injecting $20m into some combination of the Newt campaign or a SuperPac supporting Newt; but there are limits on what individuals can donate to campaigns, so it was always likely that if anything like that amount was coming in, it would be going to a SuperPac. That then would be the time at which this SuperPac would have gone ahead with funding the production of this film, in anticipation of receiving a big cash injection sufficient to buy large swatches of TV time in South Carolina and/or Florida.  

But … as of today:

- that film is up on the SuperPac website, available to me or you or anyone online to view;  
plus
- Newt gave a speech in South Carolina today signalling that he’s backing off of this attack on Romney;  

soooo … one has to wonder about the credibility of the alleged ad buys.   

I’m not suggesting there’s been coordination between Newt & this SuperPac; I’m actually suggesting quite the contrary. The ONLY way that Newt could signal this SuperPac that he’d like it call off some aspect of this attack is by a public statement, which he’s now given.  

If I were a betting type, and if Intrade or some other service accommodated such a bet, I’d be betting the equity in my home that this SuperPac is going to cancel those half-hour adformation buys, & substitute for them a bunch of standard 30 second & one minute buys.

At least one of the people defending Romney could point out the origin of the term “creative destruction”.

I almost want to reread Schumpeter’s “Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy” again.

By the same token Gingrich’s SuperPac spending money on the film in SC is hypocritical.

Oh wait.  We were talking about Gingrich, right?

Exactly.!!

This is the real Mitt Romney.. who was directly responsible for the loss of tens of thousands of jobs, by playing the system for a quick buck.

A group of corporate raiders, led by Mitt Romney,  as the CEO of Bain.Quote- “For tens of thousands of Americans, the suffering began when Mitt Romney came to town.. “When Mitt Romney Came to Town”- focuses on four case studies of Bain’s acquisitions—a Florida-based company called UniMac, which produced commercial laundry equipment; KayBee Toys; the electronics company DDI; and AmPad, an Indiana-based office-supply producer. The key result of these transactions, was spectacular returns for Bain through “stripping American businesses of assets, selling everything to the highest bidder, and often killing jobs for big financial rewards.”
unquote-

Mitt Romney was the real life Gordon Gekko, of Crony Capitalism, Corporate Corruption and Greed. 

Just because destroying hard working middle class families, their pensions, and their communities by corporate raiding companies, selling off their assets, and personally enriching themselves and their investors, at the peoples and communities expense , is legal, does make it right or good, it makes it wrong, let alone abhorrently disgusting..

And of course, he carried on his crony capitalism, corporate corruption and greed, while Gov of Mass.. ie; in his inferior substandard forced mandated State Socialized Medicine program, aka, Romneycare..

There’s some fishy going on with this attack. I’m thinking is this heavy-handed approach is really a piece of Kabuki theater, coming out now with the tacit approval of the Romney people, to ‘vet’ him on an expected attack. 

Consider that this is hardly something unexpected – this film is simply a re-hash of stuff Ted Kennedy used against Romney in 1994. I agree there need not be anything illegal about the business model the film describes; the focus in the film is heartlessness, not illegality – with the possible exception of the situation where the government was required to step in to restore some of the pension fund – but the film is not helpful on that front.

(I expect the back story about that WILL get told during the general, along with other incidents this film never goes into. Those incidents are highly suggestive of systematic manipulation of government agencies, in some cases outright deception & fraud.)

I have no inside info on whether the Obama folks would rather Newt & Perry & this SuperPac had left the Bain CC story alone for them to exploit in their own way during the general; but – on Morning Goe today, we got an indication from an insider, Steve Rattner, that the heavy-handed approach in this SuperPac film is NOT the way the Obama campaign is planning on going after Mitt on this during the general. 

That suggest Mitt knows of stuff that’s really damaging & has ‘approved’ of this clumsy ‘failed’ attack as a way of effecting some Pokemon defense.  

The knives are definitely out. 

Romneys’ Capital Song

I would cut employee hours
’till the venture sours.
A company down the drain.
And a plant I’d be scratchin’
pad-a-locks would be a latchin’
If I only had a Bain

A class that was the middle
is just an individal
Can’t bother with their pain.
‘Cause there’s bucks to be makin’
Millions there for the takin’
If I only had a Bain

With Perry and Gingrich both ripping Romney with similar charges, it seems they are trying to get the nod from the GOP establishment as a replacement to the monster that the GOP’s faux conservatism has created over the years. Romney embodies Republican ideals in a way that no one is really supposed to. The GOP establishment doesn’t actually believe Obama is a socialist; that is just hyperbole used to scare the masses. For Romney, though, it is comparatively true. Romney wants no governmental oversight of his business. No compulsion to reveal backers, no requirements that conflicts of interest be revealed in Wall Street deals with the “little people”.

I think the GOP knows Romney’s vision cannot work out for the whole country. If he were to get into office, Romney would destroy the GOP. They would have been the ones to give the Presidency to a corporate raider. What do those guys stand for? Nothing! They’re just greedy bastards who want more, more, more.

Gingrich acknowledges this in his response to the Santorum supporter admonishing Gingrich for criticizing Romney’s work at Bain:

“It’s an impossible theme to talk about with Obama in the background.
Obama just makes it impossible to talk rationally in that area because
he is so deeply into class warfare that automatically you get an echo
effect… http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71336.html#ixzz1jDD1YUNP

In other words, Gingrich thinks Obama has it right, but since the GOP is doling out the “Obama is a socialist” Kool-Aid, Gingirich can’t say the President is right.

The GOP’s web of lies has paralyzed them now. There is nowhere to go — except to another candidate: the Democrats, Independents, Ron Paul, . . . I personally wish Ron Paul would just take over the GOP and begin pragmatizing their platform from the hyper-hypothetical state his version of libertarianism is in today — and then grow his small, opposition party. That would be a revolution.

Other than claims to the rightness of small government, the GOP has nothing. The GOP establishment likes big, intrusive government. Romney and Wall Street vultures like him don’t care about the society. Other than Ron Paul, who is left on that side of the aisle?

It is civil war within the Republican party.

What does it all say about conservatives and capitalism?

In a searing critique Wednesday, MSNBC Host and former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough lashed out at the hypocrisy of his own party over the past “horrifying decade.” 

Scarborough’s laundry list of grievances is shocking in its candor, outlining how Republican leadership has failed the conservative cause.

But “Morning Joe” may have missed the larger point on a major issue that continues to outrage millions of Americans.

Watch the clip here: http://thebottom99percent.com/morning-joes-joe-scarborough-a-dismal-decade/

You might be right, but I think it would be better to keep such videos in the vault and just prepare parodies of the similar coming ads from Obama supporters. Self-inflicting suspicious damage now to make later damage appear tainted is a risky tactic, especially when you consider that substantial numbers of Republican voters will receive Gingrich’s criticism of Romney with an open mind. They would never listen to anything Obama said about he same subject. No, Gingrich has opened a beachhead for Obama with these people.

I think Rick Perry was right when he attacked Romney as being not a venture capitalist but a vulture capitalist. When pressed by Hannity on the wiseness of such a public charge, Perry said that everyone knows Obama will be making the same charges. If such charges have resonance, then they need to be heard during the primary so a potentially weak candidate can be taken out.

I feel the sharp stab of irony in seeing that Perry is thinking clearly. However, if Gingrich’s attack has any success, it will ultimately be Perry who benefits (with Huntsman a question mark…) Perry is well-positioned to be the establishment GOP’s preferred A.B.R. candidate.

This will all mean the the GOP will have to pull back on its subservience to Wall Street and the rich if the Romney takedown works out. An emotional call to the need for regulation on pension raiding and the such on the right is being made as well, so something good seems to be happening either way.

Its to bad that Newt has resorted this. Out of desperation trying to appeal to social conservatives that might not be economics conservatives and are wary of “wall street types”

http://www.examiner.com/bloomington-economic-policy-in-springfield/in-defense-of-economic-bottom-feeders