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Romney, you f*&^*(^^ idiot!!

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Okay, this is great news for liberals.....awesome news for liberals.

I'm here to tell you that it was reported that Romney said that what he did at Bain Capital.......was no different than what Obama did for GM. :shock: It's no wonder they want Romney to win the Republican nomination.

Romney likens work at Bain Capital to Obama

WTF!!

Score 1 for the Dems. :doh
 
Amazing. Rush Limbaugh says it and two hours later it comes out of American's mouth. :lol:
 
Wow...that's amazing. First the attack on Romney as a heartless capitalists by Republican canidates and now this.


Hehe..it makes me chuckle.
 
American said:
Okay, this is great news for liberals.....awesome news for liberals.

I'm here to tell you that it was reported that Romney said that what he did at Bain Capital.......was no different than what Obama did for GM. :shock: It's no wonder they want Romney to win the Republican nomination.

Romney likens work at Bain Capital to Obama

WTF!!

Score 1 for the Dems. :doh
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I don't get it. What's so horrible?
 
The key difference is that one was a private company assuming a risk with private investors and the other was the federal government assuming the risk with taxpayer dollars. This is set up for a later flank attack.

In fact, this a pretty smart approach. Kind of dulls the spear that the Obama campaign was certainly going to use to go after Romney with.

You could lump the other Obama admin investor boondoggles in as well such as Solyndra. You can totally run an ad showing how unsuccessful this administration has been trying to do what Bain did! lol
 
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American said:
Okay, this is great news for liberals.....awesome news for liberals.

I'm here to tell you that it was reported that Romney said that what he did at Bain Capital.......was no different than what Obama did for GM. :shock: It's no wonder they want Romney to win the Republican nomination.

Romney likens work at Bain Capital to Obama

WTF!!

Score 1 for the Dems. :doh
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The fact that libs and so called moderates think he is a good candidate or a moderate should have a been a clue to most people that he is not a good candidate. Libs want Romney because most likely he will guarantee Obama's 2nd term and in the unlikely event Romney wins they still have a liberal in office enacting liberal laws,vetoing conservative bills and making liberal judicial appointments.
 
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Fishstyx said:
The key difference is that one was a private company assuming a risk with private investors and the other was the federal government assuming the risk with taxpayer dollars. This is set up for a later flank attack.

In fact, this a pretty smart approach. Kind of dulls the spear that the Obama campaign was certainly going to use to go after Romney with.

You could lump the other Obama admin investor boondoggles in as well such as Solyndra. You can totally run an ad showing how unsuccessful this administration has been trying to do what Bain did! lol
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That sword cuts both ways and that is the point (at least I think) of the OP. Romney has now equated what he did at Bain with the kind of actions Obama did with GM. If Romney helped save and/or create jobs by doing that then so did Obama. It also blunts the so-called flank attack you stated against Solyndra. There are many, many similar cases with Bain Capital buying up or investing in companies that then went belly up. If this wasn't Romney's fault but the companies managers fault, then exact same is true for Obama.

The argument you make against using private versus public funds is not a winning argument either. Those that believe in government intervention who might otherwise vote for Romney will be completely turned off by this argument. It only shores up the conservative base that is already against that sort of intervention. The base generally does not need to be reminded to vote against Obama. This type of comparison is a lose, lose for the Romney campaign. If Romney is smart he will begin to distance himself from these remarks. This will inevitabley play into the say/do anything to get elected argument against Romney but I think we can all agree that that boat sailed a long, long time ago.
 
jamesrage said:
The fact that libs and so called moderates think he is a good candidate or a moderate should have a been a clue to most people that he is not a good candidate. Libs want Romney because most likely he will guarantee Obama's 2nd term and in the unlikely event Romney wins they still have a liberal in office enacting liberal laws,vetoing conservative bills and making liberal judicial appointments.
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Liberals don't think he's a good candidate. We think -- as the polls show quite clearly -- that he's the only candidate who stands a chance of beating Obama.
 
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot! May have to call his campaign chair-person and request a muzzle strategy from this point on--sheesh!
 
American said:
Okay, this is great news for liberals.....awesome news for liberals.

I'm here to tell you that it was reported that Romney said that what he did at Bain Capital.......was no different than what Obama did for GM. :shock: It's no wonder they want Romney to win the Republican nomination.

Romney likens work at Bain Capital to Obama

WTF!!

Score 1 for the Dems. :doh
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You're right he is an idiot. He must have gotten this tactic from Chris Wallace who tried this crap on Debbie Wasserman-Schultz last Sunday on FNS.

Romney has absolutely no political sense, he is all business.
 
pbrauer said:
You're right he is an idiot. He must have gotten this tactic from Chris Wallace who tried this crap on Debbie Wasserman-Schultz last Sunday on FNS.

Romney has absolutely no political sense, he is all business.
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He was a Republican that was elected as the governor of MA. I wouldn't say he has no political sense. If this makes Romney an idiot then what does it make Obama (who in Romney's quote said they did the same things).
 
AdamT said:
Amazing. Rush Limbaugh says it and two hours later it comes out of American's mouth. :lol:
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More accurate than the crap that come from your mouth. I bothered to find the source, you could learn from that. Maybe even start sourcing your posts.
 
American said:
More accurate than the crap that come from your mouth. I bothered to find the source, you could learn from that. Maybe even start sourcing your posts.
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Yes - this just proved his joking-point way wrong, there :)

Now - if you don't mind - please take some time to explain to me just what was so wrong about what he said - or what was written. I'm truly not seeing the issue, here.
 
AdamT said:
Liberals don't think he's a good candidate. We think -- as the polls show quite clearly -- that he's the only candidate who stands a chance of beating Obama.
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Of course that's exactly why liberals want him to run in the general election. :roll:
 
jamesrage said:
The fact that libs and so called moderates think he is a good candidate or a moderate should have a been a clue to most people that he is not a good candidate. Libs want Romney because most likely he will guarantee Obama's 2nd term and in the unlikely event Romney wins they still have a liberal in office enacting liberal laws,vetoing conservative bills and making liberal judicial appointments.
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I don't want him in because he's too conservative, I certainly don't think he is liberal.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
Yes - this just proved his joking-point way wrong, there :)

Now - if you don't mind - please take some time to explain to me just what was so wrong about what he said - or what was written. I'm truly not seeing the issue, here.
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Because I don't have a rep for parroting everything Limbaugh says, as he implies.
 
American said:
Because I don't have a rep for parroting everything Limbaugh says, as he implies.
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What's the issue that you're referring to in the OP? . . . I'm searching for understanding.
 
Tucker Case said:
When did it become Obama's auto industry bailout? I thought it happened in 2008.
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The auto bail out was first proposed and set up by the Bush Admin but it was the Obama Admin that was largely responsible for managing the bailout and making the funds available. They also provided financing for both the Chrysler bankruptcy and the GM bankruptcy.
 
smb said:
The auto bail out was first proposed and set up by the Bush Admin but it was the Obama Admin that was largely responsible for managing the bailout and making the funds available. They also provided financing for both the Chrysler bankruptcy and the GM bankruptcy.
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Well the bailout was designed so that the next administration managed things. I don't see how that gives Obama ownership of the bailout, or at least sole ownership of it.
 
MaggieD said:
I don't get it. What's so horrible?
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Some of the tactics used to try to save the companies are the same. However, the big difference is that Bain Capital is in the private sector and used private funds. In contrast, the government is in the public sector and used taxpayer funds. For conservatives, that distinction is significant and it highlights basic differences concerning the role of government.
 
Your Star said:
I don't want him in because he's too conservative, I certainly don't think he is liberal.
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I don't really know why anyone thinks he's a liberal. Obama is barely a liberal. The trouble is that the vocal portion of the Republican base is absolutely bat$#!+ insane. They want to further entrench wealth in this country, go to war with every Muslim country they can, dissolve civil rights for "security", and sacrifice personal liberties in order to impose their religious beliefs on the rest of us.

We actually don't want Romney to run. We'd rather Republicans picked a frothing nutcase who had no chance in the general election. We just know that Romney is the only one who can possibly sway anyone beside the die hard Republicans. And hopefully he won't do a very good job of it. Maybe after 4 more years of Obama, we could get an actual liberal.
 
Tucker Case said:
Well the bailout was designed so that the next administration managed things. I don't see how that gives Obama ownership of the bailout, or at least sole ownership of it.
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I don't think it gives him sole ownership. he does own the policy together with W. I think it is safe to say that everyone wants to forget W. Ergo, Obama owns the auto bailout.
 
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