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Hannity Challenges Rick Perry On Romney Attacks: ‘It Sounds Like Occupy Wall Street’

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Rick Perry had an indisputably rough night in New Hampshire. In fact, tonight, his eyes were entirely on South Carolina, and, on Hannity tonight, he didn’t even bother to talk about New Hampshire. But his night got worse as Sean Hannity challenged him on his claims that Mitt Romney was a “vulture capitalist”– going so far as to claim that Perry sounded like a member of Occupy Wall Street.

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Perry began the segment attacking President Obama, but Hannity quickly shifted gears to the “very harsh words” Perry has had for Romney. “It almost sounds like Occupy Wall Street,” he noted, “it doesn’t sound like someone who is governing Texas as a conservative.”

“There is a real difference between venture capitalism and vulture capitalism,” Perry replied, adding that “venture capitalism we like; vulture capitalism, no.” He justified his attacks saying that “the fact of the matter is he’s going to have to face up to this at some time or another.” Hannity wasn’t satisfied with this answer, asking Perry whether he was saying “that Mitt Romney is a vulture capitalist, that he is unethical.” Perry specified that he thought what happened with two specific companies bought by Bain was “irresponsible,” and that “the folks in South Carolina agree with that.” Hannity replied that it was still “as severe as they can get” as far as attacks go, though Perry insisted there were places where Bain had “destroyed people’s lives.”

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  • Henry Wood

    Well when it comes to the actual arguments made by OWS, most people agree.  This is why conservatives always have to resort to ad hominem attacks against OWS.

    Not a great year to run as a corporate prostitute.

  • Anonymous

    Apparently Perry is part of the 1% and not the good sort.

  • Anonymous

    What do either of these twats think venture capitalism is anyway?

  • Anonymous

    Ooh, can you provide us with a link?  A Naomi Klein book, a Michael Moore interview, a pamphlet from a Phish concert?

    Educate us with your complex and obviously not lowest-common-denominator understanding of economics.

    People Power!

  • Pablo

    Mark Maremont has committed a random act of journalism over at WSJ, and dredged up some details of Romney’s tenure at Bain.

  • Anonymous

    I hate it when brothers fight. Brothers shouldn’t fight. Brothers gotta hug.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Good lookin’ out Pablo.

  • Anonymous

    I read that earlier today, it’s the most comprehensive analysis I’ve seen yet.
      

  • DoNotMindMe

    Obama has received the most Wall Street campaign donations on record. So what’s your point about corporate influence? 

  • Pablo

    THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!!

  • Anonymous

    looks like poor sean is stuck with a dried up, paper tiger that makes john kerry look like a republican…

    so the cons will have to vote for an admited job killers and against a prove job creator?
    they will have to vote or a pro-abortion, tax raising, health care mandatin’ governor who has lost every election since he was governor?

    wow–now this will be a real show for the ages…
    it is like watching santorum kissing richard simmons—on the mouth~

  • Henry Wood

    The point you want to make is that OWS isn’t partisan.  Obama has been mic checked and is harshly criticized by OWS protesters. I think it’s fair to say that disappointment in Obama is one of the main reasons that OWS exists.

    I know that I come off as an Obama partisan here when I am dealing with right wing zombies, but I know very well what Obama’s faults are.  Donations from Wall Street are just the tip of the iceberg. Then again, because corporations so dominate our elections it’s hard to see how he wins without Wall Street cash.

    When I defend Obama here, it’s only because just about all of the alternatives are a zillion times worse than he is.  I might have actually voted for Ron Paul, but now it seems like he’s dead in the water.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    There are a number among the financial class who are also quite liberal. They understand the need for regulation and believe that some work society must do together. Other’s oppose government intervention in nearly every instance and advocate a strict individualism that in effect elevates the power of private capital. Obama has the support of the first cohort.

  • Jardino

    The states of Texas and Alaska have no income tax. Both states have oil revenue from public lands. The state owns the oil and spreads the wealth. Palin could hide her Marxist tendencies. Perry cannot.

    Ron Paul subscribes to Austrian School of Economics.

    Gingrich is still hanging onto Reagonomics.

    Who would have imagined so much diversity in the GOP?

  • Anonymous

    Please.  OWS was organized by unions and political allies of the president and, in targeting capitalism and not the politicians, mostly of the progressive wings of both parties, which enable and thrive through their cronyism, is 99% on board with a distinctly socialist, class warfare message.

    Not partisan.  Shesh.  The things they try to push.

  • Anonymous

    Hannity Challenges Rick Perry On Romney Attacks: ‘It Sounds Like Occupy Wall Street’

    Really?
    Which Perry ad called for all the Jewish employes of Wall Street to be deported back to Israel?

    Where are the established “rape-free zones” in the Perry ads? Is it on the right or left side of the ad?

    Where is all the fecal matter in the Perry ads?

    Did any Perry ads take a moment of silence for the guy who took a shot that the White House?

    Which Perry ad says that there is a Jewish plot of world domination by taking control of all the worlds banks?

  • Henry Wood

    THE BLAZE!  LMAO!

    The actual fact is that the unions only got on board once the ball was already rolling and Obama has tried to stay away from saying anything about OWS.

    Ron Paul said nice stuff about OWS and there are many Paul supporters in OWS.  Ron Paul strikes you as a union man?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Did your life partner leave you for an occupier?

  • http://twitter.com/DolefulLions Doleful Lions

    Rick Perry=RINO

    Go back to Texas and write some more love letters to Hillarycare.

  • http://twitter.com/DolefulLions Doleful Lions

    Da Blaze! Tee Hee.

  • Anonymous

    Your dismissals of the evidence and the source aren’t refutations.

    The actual fact is that the unions were positioned to lend support to a cause they started rolling as evolution to their Wisconsin campaign, and that Obama and most of the left’s politicians have been supportive of it.

    Ron Paul (more accurately his supporters, which led him to go there) strikes me as an opportunist used to tapping whatever discontent is available – clearly willing to take support from wherever it’ll come if it lends political weight behind his view of Austrian economics and 30′s style Republican “non-interventionalism.”

    Should the country have spawned a political movement from the upsets to the economy that directly affected people’s lives, it should have happened close upon and in reference to those events.  That happened.  It’s called the Tea Party.  Effects don’t follow causes three years after the fact.

  • Anonymous

    Where are the Perry ads explaining the difference between up and down twinkles?

  • Anonymous

    Videos of occupy organizers themselves speaking to their backgrounds are not to be trusted, evidently.  Trust “us” instead.  We’re non-partisan! (Oh.  And eat the rich)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joe-Ptak/100001230153256 Joe Ptak

    Gov. RICK PERRY, nor anyone else is attacking capitalism. ROMNEY’S plastic character is the issue…whose real interests will ROMNEY be fighting for? We are not electing a CEO for America…we are electing a President.

    ROMNEY is completely out of touch with ordinary Americans. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, businesses, life savings, homes, health care, self-esteem, and even their marriages.
    RINO ROMNEY is worth 250 million and he feels our pain, and he was worried about LOSING his job also! KMA…

    RINO ROMNEY, and NEWT…the ULTIMATE POLITICAL INSIDER, are representative of the reasons why the TEA Party MOVEMENT came into existence…in regards to the GOP establishment. We cannot go backwards from the gains of last year.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joe-Ptak/100001230153256 Joe Ptak

    PRESIDENT OBAMA WANTS TO WAGE CLASS WARFARE, AGAINST CONSERVATIVES AND THE GOP, THEN I HAPPEN TO READ WHERE MITT ROMNEY IS OUR BEST CHOICE, SO I ASK:

    MITT ROMNEY could not beat John McCain last election and they call him our best choice?

    MITT ROMNEY left office with a disapproval rating of 66% and they call him our best choice?

    MITT ROMNEY has run as a LIBERAL, MODERATE, now he is trying to pass off as a CONSERVATIVE, and they call him our best choice?

    MITT ROMNEY has Goldman Sachs as his biggest contributor, and they call him our best choice?

    MITT ROMNEY was a draft dodger, and they call him our best choice?

    MITT ROMNEY has flip-flopped on every major social issue, and they call him our best choice?

    MITT ROMNEY passed Romneycare, supported Obamacare, and they call him our best choice?

    MITT ROMNEY is worth $250 million and says he feels our pain, and they call him our best choice?

    MITT ROMNEY keeps his money offshore to avoid taxes, and they call him our best choice?

    MITT ROMNEY…TELL ME WHY HE IS OUR BEST CHOICE?

  • Henry Wood

    Now this is hilarious.  A movement funded by major republiklan donors and led by a former republican house majority leader is “non-partisan.”  Is that your assertion?

    But a movement that has been joined after the fact by labor unions and community groups cannot be “non-partisan,” right?

    The Tea Klan was a reaction to two things:

    A) Right wingers unwilling to admit they voted for the Bush disaster…twice!

    B) A black president

    “Ron Paul (more accurately his supporters, which led him to go there)”

    Ah, you admit it then.  Supporters of Ron Paul, who have a generally right wing view of economics, were among the first to join the 99%.  Another right wing group associated with OWS are the Oathkeepers, who are concerned about police forces being used to stifle first amendment rights.

    Non-partisan.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joe-Ptak/100001230153256 Joe Ptak

    The RINO establishment, or in other words the “GOOD OL’
    BOYS,” are sticking a knife in the back of the CONSERVATIVES, and the TEA
    PARTY MOVEMENT, and double-crossing them…after they helped throw out the
    DEM’s in Congress last year!  

    Goldman Sachs is Romney’s biggest contributor.  He is worth $250,000,000 and keeps his money
    off shore for tax purposes!

    Americans are suffering because of OBAMA and his
    liberal/progressive/​socialist cronies, including his collaborating RINO
    friends! 
    Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, businesses, life
    savings, homes, health care, and even their marriages. Our country is in
    desperate need of a real leader who is a DO’ER, not a talker, nor do we need
    some 78-year-old policy wonk…who has never accomplished anything in his life
    worth qualifying him for POTUS. 
    The “GOOD OL’ BOYS” establishment, are intent on
    pushing DRAFT DODGER RINO ROMNEY as the GOP candidate.  SEAN HANNITY HAS JOINED THE RINO’S.  

    SEAN HANNITY HAS JOINED THE RINO’S.  
    Americans are suffering because of OBAMA and his
    liberal/progressive/​socialist cronies, including his collaborating RINO
    friends! 
    Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, businesses, life
    savings, homes, health care, and even their marriages. Our country is in
    desperate need of a real leader who is a DO’ER, not a talker, nor do we need
    some 78-year-old policy wonk…who has never accomplished anything in his life
    worth qualifying him for POTUS. 
    The “GOOD OL’ BOYS” establishment, are intent on
    pushing DRAFT DODGER RINO ROMNEY as the GOP candidate.  SEAN HANNITY HAS JOINED THE RINO’S.  

  • OSTL

    lol

  • Anonymous

    The Blaze…

    OWS IS GONNA ATTACK YOU NEXT!!!11111

    be scurrred….

  • http://twitter.com/HighlyRandom Highly Random

    this is hilarious. he swears he doesn’t have a candidate, but hannity is DROWNING in the romney tank

  • OSTL

    clearly you don’t watch or listen to hannity

  • OSTL

    when you can’t refute..attack messenger…

  • OSTL

    how could obama defend a group of losers spreading diseases, stealing, raping, vandalizing and crapping on cop cars?

  • Anonymous

    It is getting harder and harder to figure out who are the “job creators”

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Three in a row!!! Wow! You need to go outside sometime.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    If the Republicans (whomever they choose) loose this election, it won’t be due to OWS.  Some of their positions may resonate with most voters, but that won’t be the deciding factors.  The reason will be that the Republicans have given America no reason to vote for them.  They tell us all the time how much Obama sucks, but not why they will be better.  Defense wins football, not elections.

  • Anonymous

    the one time conservatives show some kind of constructive flexibility in improving capitalism…and it’s so they can insult each other…

  • Anonymous

    As to Ron Paul supporters, I admit there’s a constituency among them who hail from the socially progressive spectrum of libertarianism, that the doctrinal anarchal-capitalists among still others are quite often comfortable swimming in the same waters as holders of other anarchal-xxx views, and that there’s also crossover appeal to single issue voters who advance frankly weird or outdated views on 9/11, Israel, currency or isolationist pacifism (among others).  Ron Paul’s support is a coalition of concerns; that’s one of his strengths, though because of the disparate points he hits there’s a cap to it.  There’s also a good deal more people who are with Paul as a compromise candidate, who like aspects of his rhetoric in moderation or in part but who’d never go down the same road as other supports do.

    But then who HASN’T admitted to such?

    As to the rest of your unsourced (and unserious), race-baiting “analysis,” (read as narrative lies), your blinders are made of race cards.  The Tea Party was the movement spawned of the economic downturn, spiking unemployment and bailouts with taxpayer monies to institutions deemed “too big to fail” by establishment Washington insiders tied at the hip to their brethren; because it skewed the national debate right (as a reaction to outlandish economic policies ought), the occupy groups were engineered by the left in response.  Push your barely legible (for all the made up words) “non-partisan” crap onto someone who’s buying it.  Protip.  American ain’t buying it.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    It comes out as a positive for Romney.

  • Anonymous

    I preferred OP’s apple, but i’ll eat your orange…

  • Anonymous

    There’s quite a few more who know influence buying comes at a price and that Democrats, even more than big government Republicans, are by nature of their governing philosophy more useful to their cause.  They understand the need to have a hand in the creation of legislation which governs their own industries and believe that society through control of politicians, by the mandates they can issue, or the impositions they can place on competitors or the subsidies they can dish out, can be made to work for their interests.  Obama has their support; that of crony socialists.

    Thus the core argument for a government limited in its scope and reach; to so deny such opportunities (in which success is had through corruption) and return the country to one in which equality of individuals exists under the law in fact as well as in ideal.

  • Anonymous

    He got the go ahead to attack Romney from the Billionaires that were meeting in Texas. Perry will be getting a lot of money in the next few days.    

  • Anonymous

    Hannity is an ignoramus, he is just parroting the slob Limbaugh. 

  • Anonymous

    Correction on ‘ Romney ran as a liberal’, I think he said he was a progressive. 

  • Anonymous

    I noticed you can’t get over his net-worth of $250m. I thought the GOP loves wealthy capitalist, don’t antagonize him because he is rich. Like the GOP saying goes, strap your boots. 

  • Dead_Air

    I’m loving this Republican infighting.  Where is the popcorn?

  • Anonymous

    I just find this attempt to demonize OWS hilarious, what are your motives exactly? Do you want corporate control of America? Do you want your voice drowned out by rich people who would like you to work harder while they benefit? 

    Rich people are paying congress so they have less taxes, they are paying lobbyists and congressmen to make it look like the best thing to do for Americans is raise taxes on everyone but the rich..

    And what is the only thing corporate American can actually do to stop OWS protestors? Slander them. You’re pretty much just helping yourself lose money and get taxed more by helping corporate America.. they only want to make your life hard by making themselves more money.

  • Anonymous

    Why not, the market has been quite good under Obama.

  • Anonymous

    There is something so cool about watching Hannity ripping Perry in favor or Romney. LOL.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Alright… I will bite on that wriggling bait you dangle. Please provide examples of “crony socialists” and extrapolate backward to provide that ideal time (give or take a few years) when individuals froliicked in the great leveled lands of golden law bathed in the high even light of equality.

  • Anonymous

    my friend’s step-aunt makes $80/hr on the laptop. She has been without work for 6 months but last month her pay was $8222 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Here is the site… CashHard.com

  • shonangreg

    If such concentrations of power had been behind OWS, then it would have had a clear message from the outset. You right-wing sycophants were the ones criticizing OWS for not having any coherent message.

    Foot. Meet Mouth. I’m sure the taste is familiar.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    It is troubling. While President Obama doesn’t engage in Willard-style predatory capitalism, he has not worked as effectively as I would have liked to curb abuses.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    OWS is, in fact, a protest against Obama policies.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    One does discredit himself or herself by citing the Blaze.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Very well stated.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I don’t know, Jeff, that was profound and accomplished derriere smooching, even by O’Hannity standards.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Is that venture or vulture capitalism???

    That post on this board defines Irony.

  • Pablo

    LMAO! is not an argument. Rebut the facts, or if they’re lies, disprove them.

  • Pablo

    …says the self-titled “The Real Royal Emperor”

    It is to laugh.

  • Pablo

    OWS is self-demonizing.

  • Pablo

    They don’t have a clear message they can sell. All they can run with is discontent, even if they need to manufacture it.

  • Anonymous

    WE don’t have a one size fits all for capitalism. Bain seems to be the dregs of capitalism and to champion how they destroy companies as
    an example of capitalism at it’s finest is BS.

  • david r

    Before long, when we hear the word “Perry” we will know for sure they are talking about Katy Perry. 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Not soon enough for me.

  • http://twitter.com/omegabit M.

    Jim Dimond of Chase?  Angelo Mozillo of Countrywide?  Anyone at Goldman Sachs including the crapulent former “governor” and president of the aptly named MF Global?  

    And inserting a straw man at the end of your response justifies nothing.  The fact that there has never been a time when regulation wasn’t used by the powerful to constrain upstarts is no argument for regulation, let alone tolerating the true reason for regulation:  To protect the powerful from the uncertainty of the future.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DMCM3SMUPILQCNYZNSMTR5CAFA senorlechero

    You have to love it when an “ignoramus” parrots Media Matters, and in one gramatically incorrect sentence calls two people names.  Skyfet, thank you for showing who the real ignoramus slob is.

  • Anonymous

    Must have struck a nerve? No?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DMCM3SMUPILQCNYZNSMTR5CAFA senorlechero

    Wow, is your handle correct or what!  You might want to add to “idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” “ears that do not hear”

    Republicans have given multiple good reasons to vote for them over the O.  Repealing Obamacare and replacing it with real options for health care, stopping the growth of govt…which under the O has led to perpetual 1.5 trillion dollar deficits, undoing the restrictions placed on energy production in the USofA, reforming Medicare and Social Security….the list goes on and on.  How is it that you missed it?  (that’s a rhetorical question…as everyone knows you did not miss it, you just demonize it)

  • http://twitter.com/omegabit M.

    Exactly.  If OWS was serious about it’s claims, as opposed to a cow catcher for useful idiots and radical hacks that might otherwise wander off the reservation and support another Green Party candidate without something to distract them, then it would ally itself with the Tea Party which advocates many of the same positions:

    End Crony Capitalism.  End the corporate subsidies.  End the bailouts.  End the Fed.  Prosecute and jail the guilty on Wall Street.

    It’s an obvious marriage of convenience for a number of notable and worthy goals, yet it doesn’t happen.  Why?  Because OWS is a front of easily manipulated fools following the tune of the DNC.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DMCM3SMUPILQCNYZNSMTR5CAFA senorlechero

    Perry and Newt do sound like OWS, and Hannity is correct to point that out.  Are you saying Perry and Newt don’t?  Are you saying Hannity is wrong?  If yes to either of those questions you are the one who is “in the tank”…for Obama

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DMCM3SMUPILQCNYZNSMTR5CAFA senorlechero

    What a bunch of unadulterated garbage!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DMCM3SMUPILQCNYZNSMTR5CAFA senorlechero

    Where is the logic in your comment?  Can you say “Straw Man”?  How about “Red Herring”?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DMCM3SMUPILQCNYZNSMTR5CAFA senorlechero

    Ron Paul suscribes to the “Foreign Policy for Idiots” school of Diplomacy

    Your points are assinine.  I hear there are plenty of jobs in China for native english speakers.  Since you are so enamored of them (like Obama and Paul Krugman) I suggest you go there.

  • http://twitter.com/omegabit M.

    You’d think it tastes familiar because it’s exactly what brainwashed DNC hacks such as yourself said about the Tea Party.  But your assumption is all wrong.  The DNC doesn’t want a coherent movement that it cannot control.  It wants an unruly mob of discontents (to borrow Pablo’s word) that is easy to distract, confuse, and terrify into voting against the worst, most dastardly, most awful human being since McCainBushHitler: MItt Romney.  (That’s called sarcasm in case it wasn’t clear). 

    Foot.  Meat for your Mouth.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DMCM3SMUPILQCNYZNSMTR5CAFA senorlechero

    You are so right.  So Obama should do horribly, since he is the biggest “coporate prostitute” running.

  • http://twitter.com/omegabit M.

    What voice do you have, fool?  I’ve spoken with many OWS leaders and all I keep hearing is how OWS doesn’t need to win at the ballot box to make a difference.  Oh, OK.

    Mission Accomplished, DNC.  Now all that is required is a last minute appeal to stop the RomneyMcBushHitler menace   before “corporations” decide to patent your kids, and your useful idiot vote for the Chicago Machine Corruptocrat is assured.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    I would be interested in any information you have documenting legislative effort on the part of Democrats aimed at enriching folks on Wall Street. Democrats flirt comfortably with the financial class and even (gasp) operate amongst them… that is not evidence of cronyism.

    Can regulation be used to constrain the little guy… sure. Does this happen often. No. I would be interested in your best examples. I would love to compare.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DMCM3SMUPILQCNYZNSMTR5CAFA senorlechero

    Can you really be as ignorant as your comment portrays?  Or was that satire?  The O robbed (by threat of intimidation…that’s called “Racketeering” when the Mafia does it) investors in GM and Chrysler and gave their money to the Unions.  He gave billions to failed green energy companies that in turn lined his pockets…then laid off their workers.  He drove the price of oil sky high, shut down drilling in the USofA, then gave billions of dollars to the Brazillian oil company owned largely by Soros…who gives liberally to Democrasts.  The list goes on and on. 

    Technically one could say that it’s true the O doesn’t engage in “predatory capitalism”….but one would be hard pressed to make the case that what he does do is not corrupt capitalism.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DMCM3SMUPILQCNYZNSMTR5CAFA senorlechero

    LOL…WAJ!  You not only “come off as an Obama partisan” when you attack rational conservatives, you come off as a left wing – head in your patuty – irrational “zombie”.  You “know very well what Obama’s faults are”?   We know you do.  You (and OWS) know he is not socialist enough for you.  To be more precise…you kow that he is as socialist as you but is not fast enough in turning the nation around to your socialist wasy.  He should have gone for “Single Payer”.  He should nationalize the energy industry.  He should mandate Cap and Trade.  He should be shutting down the medial outlets of the “Right Wing Zombies”. 

    Darn him!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DMCM3SMUPILQCNYZNSMTR5CAFA senorlechero

    Do you really want to know what the motives for “demonizing” OWS are…or are you just building a straw man to destroy?

    1) OWS violates laws (camping where not allowed, blocking pedestrian and vehicle traffic)
    2) They cost the public money
    3) They cost businesses money, even forcing many to close
    4) They attract homeless, drug addict/dealer, gang, and other undesirable groups
    5) They are filty
    6) Their demands are outrageous (free college, free credit, free food, free housing)

    Really, do I need to go on?  “Demonizing” is such hard work

    Almost forgot the most important one…They support Unions (the ugliest group of thugs/thieves/bullies active in politics today)

  • Anonymous

    Maybe you wouldn’t come off as an Obama partisan if you didn’t refer to those with whom you disagree as “right wing zombies.” Don’t count Ron Paul out just yet, he’s still holding his own & Texas has 150 delegates at stake. However, nothing is worse than four more years of Obama, it will be the end of the country as a Republic.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Nice to start out a rebuttal with an insult. It is nice to know the mentality of an opponent before a response.

    Now on to your points…

    You just told me how much Obama sucks without telling me the solutions on how to fix them. So in a round about way, you proved my point.

    What options for healthcare? How is Obamacare bad? Please don’t tell me it is socialist, that is a general term. I will spot you this, is it the individual mandate? That hasn’t gone into effect yet. Is it that insurance companies cannot drop coverage over a preexisting condition that they should have known about before agreeing to cover you? Please give me examples of what the candidates will do OTHER than rolling it back. Fixing it is not making it how it was before. It is also ironic that the front runner implemented a plan in his home state that is almost identical to “Obamacare.”

    Stopping the growth of Government and debt. How? The last four Republican Presidents (Ford doesn’t count) actually grew the size of government. All four of them ran deficits. The last and only president in the last 40 years to shrink the deficit was a democrat. Also all of the regulatory agencies that people rail against, they were started by Nixon.

    So in short, you have still given me no reason why to vote for them or how they will fix the problems.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    please back up you’re points.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    you are new here arent you?  You havent read any of skyfets posts.

  • Anonymous

    Multiple good reasons?? Like reforming health care, which they have had zero interest in doing till President Obama got a law passed. Like ending Medicare and Social Security? Like giving their rich buddies tax breaks at the expense of the middle class? Taking away a woman’s right to choose? Discriminating against gays, which I bet half secretly are or wish they were. Or maybe getting into more wars that will kill our kids and take more money out of our Treasury? NO Thank You.

  • Anonymous

    Mitt Romney, gonna make Tea Heads explode. Won’t really matter though. Ron Paul will run a third Party Ticket and finish off Mittens once and for all. President Obama will win a second term while Republicans eat their young. Get out the popcorn and enjoy the carnage.

  • nm2

    Actually, I thought lil ole Sean Hannity got slapped down pretty good.

  • Anonymous

    WHO CARES what Sean Hannity thinks about ANYTHING???  He’s a parrot – every question or comment is put in his mouth by someone else.  And what’s with that pen he’s always holding – it’s like a BINKY?   I am a conservative Republican and for the life of me I cannot undesrtand why people listen to him on TV or the radio.  And he CONSTANTLY interrupts people.  Why have them on the programs if you are going to ask them a question and then talk over them.  And who is the ghost writer for this books? Obviously he couldn’t write a paragraph on his own.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    Hannity can spin it all he wants. The fact of the matter is that Bain invested $30 million, then extracted $180 million, leaving the company broke and workers in the tank. That’s Cutthroat Market Capitalism. It’s not illegal, but it show the greed and disregard for workers who built the company. It’s Gordon Gekko, and it makes competitive market capitalism look bad. This was obviously just one example of corporate raiding.

  • Anonymous

    That’s just the sort of thing some dope-smoking unemployable Commie would say.

  • Anonymous

    WHO CARES WHAT PAWN HANNITY HAS TO SAY….WELL…. EXCEPT THE OLDER WHITE RACIST AMERICANS HE SCARES EVERYDAY

  • http://www.facebook.com/marla.louise Marla Louise

    I love how OWS is influencing the political world.    
    “There is a real difference between venture capitalism and vulture capitalism,” Perry replied, adding that “venture capitalism we like; vulture capitalism, no.”

    That sounds like a line directly from OWS.

  • Anonymous

    What sad is Republicans can’t even agree on what a republican should look and act  like.

  • OSTL

    rofl!

  • http://twitter.com/bayreporta John C. Osborn

    You have no idea what you’re talking about and have obviously never talked to people involved with Occupy. Corportists and conservative critics are so desperate to find a villian behind the veil, but it doesn’t exist. Sorry.

    This movement is as genuine as the Tea Party was before Wall Street co-opted it. 

  • http://newsbusters.org/ AliveStiIIKickin

    OWS “human debris” despise capitalism PERIOD!!
    BTW….Hannity’s remark was meant as an insult to the OWS slugs.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Silver-Mountain/100003346880778 Silver Mountain

    Hannity has spent the past several months, up to just recently fooling most everyone into believing that he is a really a neutral talk show host with regards to the GOP candidates, lol!  Hannity is pro Romney, has been pro Romney, and will vote for Romney. I believe clearly he (Hannity) is waiting for a an opportunity to come out of the closet and tell everyone. I think his impatience is showing.

    Hannity has been the most cordial to all of the candidates in my view, no doubt. I think its been very clear to us Gingrich Republicans, and we thank him for that. However, the Bain capital report being exposed against Romney by the likes of Perry and Newt is just lighting Hannity up. Too funny and very telling. Sorry Sean, we arent backing off, where were you and the media elite and republican establishment when Romney was tee’ing off on Newt in Iowa. Waaa Waaa Waaaa

  • Anonymous

    I too believe that some of the R candidates sound like Occupy Wall Street thugs. 

    They are so busy trying to get the “job”, that they aren’t doing their job.  And that job is to represent the values of the R party.  And the R party believes in the marketplace. 

    The problem is – that most of those running know nothing about the marketplace.  They have only been politicians.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7T5LVIQK7AMIBM5WI765VDVDQ smald4lib

    Hannity  supports Mittins Wall Street Romney, because that’s what the Republicans stand for, vulture capitlism. Jack Walsh who started the outsourcing is supporting vulture capitlism, Romney. Romney is their guy. It’s funny to hear Perry talk about creating jobs, when what he’s doing is using the public sector to reduce taxes on Corporations to come to Texas. That’s not creating jobs, that’s robbing the tax payers to bring a few low wage jobs. Silicon Valley creates jobs and Calif. is now leading the nation in jobs creation.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7T5LVIQK7AMIBM5WI765VDVDQ smald4lib

    What you are seeing in the debates is what the Republicans and corporate Democrats are being lobbied to keep happening in our country. The emperor wares no cloths………….pay attention son, I say pay attention……………………….

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000957005951 Heebee Jeebee

    OWS made on coherent arguments. At. All.

  • Anonymous

    We can live with a little socialism.We should have nonprofit single payer system,the rich will go too the mayo clinic anyway.The worst that could happen:puts the parasitic insurance companies out of business.Nationalize the energy industry,why not?Instead of dirty nasty oil,coal,and gas for profit,we go with clean wind,solar,geothermal,hydro,tidal.A typical right winger seems to only care about money not about global warming nor deaths from cancer.Big oil,gas,and coal only see more profit through scarcity.Yes to cap and trade,but unnecessary with a clean energy policy.Fox should drop the news and go by their original name gop-tv.Ignorant viewers should be told that’ some people say’ fixed news is spin and propaganda for republikans and koch brother shills called teabaggers.Why do you fear socialism,our military is the biggest socialist program we have.They provide cloths,food,healthcare,transportaion,vehicles,housing,clergy,toiletries,hair cuts,contraceptives,ect.Our tax system,social security,postal service.Just before the ayn rand,right wing,narcissistic mindset kills the planet you’ll realize you can not eat money.

  • Anonymous

    They say he’s worth about 400 million.I’ll give parry credit for calling out romney and pissing on hannity.It’s fun to watch them eat their own.

  • Anonymous

    The original Tool Time was a lot funnier.

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