And you base this judgment on what?
In terms of lying, he does not do it anymore than others in politics, and less than quite a few. Even his "flip-flopping", if you really look at it, is consistant with what he has said vis-a-vis states rights. He believed he was elected to represent the state of Massachusetts, and he endeavoured to reflect their desires as best he could, regardless of which side of the aisle they were on. I think that is the job of a leader in a democratic country, to put the will of the electorate first (even those who did not vote for him).
That is utter BS. Lets take a look at the issues. He was against Obamas bailouts, let Detroit go bancrupt he said. Then he tried to take credit for it. He switched on abortion. He said in early 2000 that he was a progressive, and earlier that he will not return to Reagans policies. Now he is a Reagan conservative. He said quite clearly that he supported Obamas health care plan. If he really cared that much about states, rights then why did he say that he was glad to hear Obama is copying his idea. It is just an excuse. Also, we have his flip flopping on global warming. He was for more gun control, then suddenly became a member of the NRA and was against it. In Florida you must have seen how dishonest he were.
His wife has said that he is very good at convincing people that he believes something, while he may not. There are no candidate who has been a bigger flip flopper than Romney. And he is a massive liar.
No, a democratic leaders job is not to lie to people, to convince people he believes what they believe. The job of a politician is to fight for his ideas, represent his electorate, and then hope voters want it.
How do you know he does not care about poor people (I know you are just regurgitating the quote)? Just because someone may be against entitlement programs does not imply they do not care about the plight of poor people. He consistantly gives A LOT of money to charity, and he has served in a lot of volunteer roles. Maybe he simply wants help for the poor to be more local and personal, rather than funded by innefficient government programs.
Just listen to him speak. "The poor people are doing fine.", "corporations are people my friend". He obviously can not connect or understand poor people, Republican or Democrat.
Lastly, with regards to the business accusations, I have worked with Bain Capital pretty extensively, and they are, by a long ways, one of the most conscientious private equity firms, at least out of the large ones. They really do focus on growing companies, and this is demonstrated by the fact that they mostly hire management consultants, as opposed to bankers like the other big firms (KKR, Carlyle, etc.). They never fire people unless that is what is needed for the survival/growth of the company. Yes, they return a profit to investors and yes, creating jobs is not the main goal of the company, but I think you will be hard-pressed to find a company whose goal is to simply create jobs.
That sums up your neutrality. His job was not to preserve job or make companies more efficient. His job was to return a profit, and you can see that he sold many of his companies at the top and they collapsed afterwards. So, what makes them so different from Wall Street investors relying on insider information?
No company has a goal to create jobs, but companies that we really look up to, Walt Disney, Ford, GM, etc. provide a product. That is the ones who built America, not Wall Street investors. It is hard to know if Romney provided any benefit to the economy, and his kind of people turn Americas against conservativism.
