Mitt Romney 2012

[Tinker]

Colbert did a brilliant work-up of Romney last night.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colber ... share_copy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

On The Word he compares Mitt Romney to Gordon Gecko.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colber ... share_copy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Of course it's incorrect that Lincoln had no business experience, he ran a successful law practice.

[Azrael]

I remember 2008. Mitt Romney spent a fortune and the more people saw of him the less they liked him.

I like the Republican field the way it is, with no particularly dangerous threat to Obama. I hope Rick Perry chickens out and doesn't run.

[Mr. Perfect]

Yes Azrael, you predicted that the Demcrats would keep the house. Not only did they not keep it, they lost it in dramatic and historic fashion. This may work out similarly for you.

[Mr. Perfect]

Part of your failures in properly understanding the political realities here is not just is the Osama bounce nearly all gone as we enter a season of negative economics:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls ... -1044.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

But the real problem Obama has is that his electoral college picture looks worse than his regular polling.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... oll-says/1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Azrael]

Romney running scared, . Wants his first "test" to be New Hampshire.

[Tinker]

[Azrael]

[skyhook77sfg]

Willard Romney, ace Mormon job creator ?

ho ho ho...

check the record....


Romney's private equity firm, Bain Capital, bought companies and often increased short-term earnings so those businesses could then borrow enormous amounts of money. That borrowed money was used to pay Bain dividends.

Bain and Goldman Sachs, for example, put $85 million down in a $415 million 1994 leveraged buyout of Baxter International's medical testing division (renamed Dade Behring), which sold machines and reagents to labs.

Bain reduced Dade's research and development spending to 6 to 7 percent of sales, while its peers allocated between 10 and 15 percent. Dade in June 1999 used the savings as part of the basis to borrow $421 million. Dade then turned around and used $365 million from the loan to buy shares from its owners, giving them a 4.3 times return on their investment.

In August 2002, Dade filed for bankruptcy.This was not an isolated case.

* Bain in 1988 put $5 million down to buy Stage Stores, and in the mid-'90s took it public, collecting $100 million from stock offerings. Stage filed for bankruptcy in 2000.

* Bain in 1992 bought American Pad & Paper (AMPAD), investing $5 million, and collected $100 million from dividends. The business filed for bankruptcy in 2000.

* Bain in 1993 invested $60 million when buying GS Industries, and received $65 million from dividends. GS filed for bankruptcy in 2001.

* Bain in 1997 invested $46 million when buying Details, and made $93 million from stock offerings. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2003.

Romney's Bain invested 22 percent of the money it raised from 1987-95 in these five businesses, making a $578 million profit.

Mitt Romney, through his spokesman, did not return calls. Bain declined comment.



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pretty good definition of a vulture fund....

what does that make CEO Willard?

[Mr. Perfect]

I honestly don't think it's alarming that a bunch of companies went bankrupt in 2000-2003, a period of recession, terrorism and war.

[skyhook77sfg]

uhhh....

you didnt notice a pattern in Willard's modus?

a common outcome good for Willard Gecko

but not so good for suddenly jobless workers?



now that's what I call party above all..

nation...society...humanity

all trumped by apparatchik need

to avoid cognitive disonance.

from gordon gecko

to gordon liddy

in one thread.

well done.

[Azrael]

Did you see the debate? Tim Pawlenty was too scared to say in front of Mitt Romney.

Mitt has to fight to keep from laughing at the wanker.

Tim plays the tough guy when he's getting thrown softballs on Fox; but when Mitt walks in the room, Tim gets weak in the knees.

[skyhook77sfg]

like watching a junior varsity warmup....

not even a game.

dwarfs dribbling poorly.

except the OB/GYN

but he's starting to sound and look

like the cliched angry old white guy.

not voter friendly at all.

[Azrael]

[Mr. Perfect]

[skyhook77sfg]

your best ad hoc riposte?

rather liked the gecko/liddy progression....

reminded of Hunt and Sturgis and the Ukrainian plumber

doing tricky dick's dirty work at DNC

and all that stuff that went back

to that Bay of Pigs thing

Pepsi Cola's favorite politician

warned Haldeman about....


those were the days eh MR PEE

the salad days of the grand old party

when whatever the president said to do

was legal because the president said it.

cheney learned well.

[Mr. Perfect]

[Azrael]

I think that Mitt Romney won the debate, not because he threw any good punches, but because nobody dared to throw a real punch at him.

It was pretty obvious that his competition is intimidated by him.

He was the Bush family's choice in 2008 and may be their choice this time around, too. The Bush family doesn't like Rick Perry.

Michelle B. was clever to announce her candidacy on the program. That will stick in people's minds. She'll have to work hard to keep in the spotlight, keep Palin out of the race and take as many of Palin's devotees as she can. If that's her plan, she did quite well last night.

[Tinker]

Michelle Bachmann is orders of magnitude more intelligent than Sarah Palin, but she's still a total fucking moron.

[skyhook77sfg]

Esquire Bachman on the Census:



“If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.

I'm not saying that that's what the Administration is planning to do, but I am saying that private personal information that was given to the Census Bureau in the 1940s was used against Americans to round them up, in a violation of their constitutional rights, and put the Japanese in internment camps.

Unfortunately, the Census data has become very intricate, very personal, a lot of the questions that are asked. I know for my family, the only question we will be answering is how many people are in our home.

We won't be answering any information beyond that, because the Constitution doesn't require any information beyond that...."



TAKE THAT TO THE BANK AND CASH IT...

[Mr. Perfect]

I like it. Sounds like Michelle B will be a strong 4th amendment person, sorely needed. Thanks for the info.

[Tinker]

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