July 17, 2012
— Ace This is so stupid. But Obama has dictated we have to talk about dumb shit like this, so we don't talk about the fact that he is a Stuttering Clusterf**k of a Miserable Failure.
Something has just occurred to me: That Obama is counting on the Bain attack not to reap dividends in and of itself, but to prepare the battlespace for his real attack, Mediscare.
Paint him as a brutalizer of poor, vulnerable folk now so when they bring on the Throw Grandma Down The Stairs attack, the public will be inclined to think the worst.
If this is the case -- and it seems likely to me -- Romney really has to push back against this, and not merely in a tu quoque way against Obama; he has to push the image of a smart, careful custodian of money, whose decisions, while unfathomable to a piker like Obama, were ultimately good for the economy.
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Posted by: Alex at July 17, 2012 10:47 AM (G39HO)
Posted by: t-bird at July 17, 2012 10:48 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at July 17, 2012 10:49 AM (6WUgy)
Posted by: Cicero Kid at July 17, 2012 10:49 AM (qZJiO)
(You think I'm a pedant? I just got out of a meeting with the FAA, where we haggled over the meaning of the word "input")
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at July 17, 2012 10:49 AM (ZKzrr)
Obama wants to talk about Romney's offshore accounts.
He doesn't seem eager to talk about all the foreign deposits made in Stanley Dunham's unwashed libtard oyster ditch.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 17, 2012 10:51 AM (rXGCl)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at July 17, 2012 10:52 AM (+FMYM)
Posted by: Drider at July 17, 2012 10:53 AM (HaJD9)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 17, 2012 10:53 AM (rXGCl)
Romney should focus on how good he is at business and contrast that with how lousy Obama has. And maybe he has that in mind, for later.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 17, 2012 10:54 AM (r4wIV)
Posted by: Ken at July 17, 2012 10:54 AM (ayCbQ)
Posted by: LIBORis Karloff at July 17, 2012 10:54 AM (QjSgY)
Posted by: Soona at July 17, 2012 10:55 AM (gaYoA)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 17, 2012 10:55 AM (05RcU)
Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at July 17, 2012 10:55 AM (RD7QR)
Some where, somehow there, buried in his Obamacare (denouncing myself) bill is something that benefits an offshore company.
The attack ad I'd produce would say, "[the JEF] raided $500 billion from Medicare to pay companies to outsource medical transcription to India!" Then I'd have grandmas and grandpas, "$500 billion?! From my healthcare?! And he took jobs away from Americans?!!!"
Without even looking, I guarantee that has happened. And I don't give a flying fuck it it hasn't--the JEF laid the ground rules, you can lie, lie, lie and even if the media says it's a lie, keep lying. When the JEF side says it's a lie, say, "So was his claim that I outsourced jobs at Bain, but you didn't care about that."
Posted by: RoyalOil at July 17, 2012 10:56 AM (kSaUf)
Outsourcing is not offshoring.
We've already lost the battle by conceding the fraudulent use of language.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at July 17, 2012 10:57 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: MJ at July 17, 2012 10:57 AM (TR60b)
Posted by: Roy at July 17, 2012 10:57 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: The Huggable Robot Devil at July 17, 2012 10:57 AM (136wp)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 17, 2012 10:58 AM (05RcU)
You have my deepest condolences. I left an avionics company about six years ago because I was loosing the battle of wills against a supernova hot desire to murder some FAA dickheads.
Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at July 17, 2012 10:58 AM (SDkq3)
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Posted by: The Annals of Hyprocrisy, Obama Gift Edition at July 17, 2012 10:59 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Honey Badger, drinker of mead at July 17, 2012 10:59 AM (GvYeG)
Posted by: The Huggable Robot Devil at July 17, 2012 10:59 AM (136wp)
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Posted by: Jay Bee at July 17, 2012 11:00 AM (Xwgt3)
Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at July 17, 2012 11:00 AM (QxSug)
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Posted by: eureka! at July 17, 2012 11:02 AM (ZIccV)
Posted by: willow at July 17, 2012 11:02 AM (TomZ9)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 17, 2012 11:02 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 17, 2012 11:03 AM (8y9MW)
President Obama is weaning himself off his teleprompter.
At recent campaign events in Pennsylvania, Virginia and again Monday in Ohio, Obama spoke to crowds in high school gymnasiums and at crowded outdoor events without his teleprompter, instead using written notes.
The difference is dramatic. Instead of turning in his characteristic manner from right to left and back again, reading from the two sloping, clear-plastic planes of his teleprompter, Obama has glanced down at pages in a binder on his podium.
Team Obama thinks the switch, or partial switch — the president is not giving up the teleprompter entirely — will help him better connect with voters.
Posted by: unemployed TOTUS at July 17, 2012 11:03 AM (e8kgV)
Yeah, offshoring and outsourcing are two different things, though Barry sure doesn't undertstand that. No one else seems willing to explain the difference either, which is a shame, because I'm sure Romney gets it.
Offshoring isn't even necessarily bad, because hey, reduced costs are generally a good thing. Comparative advantages are a little harder to explain, but it can be done. (Wasn't it a Founding Father who said, "I will go where I can buy products the cheapest?", in response to the British trade monopoly on the Colonies? I'm sure it's in Stuff Jefferson's BFF's and Frenemies Said.) It's just so much easier to demagogue, which is, like, 90% or so of the Democrat/media playbook.
(Anyway, outsourcing-- well, domestic outsourcing-- is more of a wash, in the sense of X fewer jobs here, but roughly X more jobs there, and they're better at it, etc.)
Posted by: Lance McCormick at July 17, 2012 11:03 AM (zgHLA)
Or Petrobus, taxdollars also given so american oil workers are not working.
or shutting down coal. losing jobs for american workers.
really he wants to go here?
Posted by: willow at July 17, 2012 11:03 AM (TomZ9)
Posted by: WalrusRex at July 17, 2012 11:04 AM (u16FL)
Posted by: MJ at July 17, 2012 11:04 AM (TR60b)
Posted by: The Huggable Robot Devil at July 17, 2012 11:04 AM (136wp)
Argh, formatting fail. Been so long, I forgot to do the HTMlery.
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Sorry about the mess. [tosses a coin at the bar]
Posted by: Lance McCormick at July 17, 2012 11:04 AM (zgHLA)
Posted by: Barry McBucks at July 17, 2012 11:05 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Jay Bee at July 17, 2012 11:06 AM (Xwgt3)
Of course they did. Considering how many companies outsource, and how many people invest in 401(k)'s and so forth, then most everyone is going to have invested in companies that offshore.
And that will be realized by more and more people as this attack sticks around. Which is why I am surprised that the Obama campaign is shooting off so much of these good shots so early, when there is time for damage control and for the entire thing to die down. It only makes sense when I start reading so many coming to the conclusion that Obama is doing this to prevent his total collapse in the summer polls.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - trying to stay awake in the middle of the afternoon at July 17, 2012 11:06 AM (hLRSq)
Robot Devil, right, my mind was flopping around trying to remember Petrobus (soros american tax invstment) etc. so i skipped THE major component.
hangs head
Posted by: willow at July 17, 2012 11:06 AM (TomZ9)
Whose finances am I supposed to be concerned about, again?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 17, 2012 11:07 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Andy at July 17, 2012 11:08 AM (wLibB)
Barky commercials....playing over and over...on SyFy channel....
"Mitt Romney Outsourced Jobs!..Mitt Romney Outsourced Jobs!.. Mitt Romney Outsourced Jobs!..Mitt Romney Outsourced Jobs!..Mitt Romney Outsourced Jobs!..MITT ROMNEY OUTSOURCED JOBS!!!!"
It shows Barky, hugging some women on an auto-assemblyline.
Talks about how Barky "cares about creating Jobs here in America".
Really. fucking. pukeworthy.
Posted by: wheatie at July 17, 2012 11:09 AM (MbB0O)
As a Christian, would you say you are concerned or vexed?
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at July 17, 2012 11:09 AM (mIoJ0)
The SCOAMT gave the Romney campaign a gift with his Americans-can't-build-businesses-by-themselves meme. That should be the mainspring of this campaign. It encompasses everthing about what Barky does and says. It can be played even with healthcare.
Posted by: Soona at July 17, 2012 11:09 AM (gaYoA)
"President Obama is weaning himself off his teleprompter.At recent campaign events in Pennsylvania, Virginia and again Monday in Ohio, Obama spoke to crowds in high school gymnasiums and at crowded outdoor events without his teleprompter, instead using written notes.The difference is dramatic. Instead of turning in his characteristic manner from right to left and back again, reading from the two sloping, clear-plastic planes of his teleprompter, Obama has glanced down at pages in a binder on his podium.Team Obama thinks the switch, or partial switch — the president is not giving up the teleprompter
entirely — will help him better connect with voters."
You dont do things like this unless you are VERY worried about how things are going.
Posted by: Honey Badger, drinker of mead at July 17, 2012 11:09 AM (GvYeG)
Posted by: Doc at July 17, 2012 11:09 AM (biMBg)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - trying to stay awake in the middle of the afternoon at July 17, 2012 11:10 AM (hLRSq)
He doesn't seem eager to talk about all the foreign deposits made in Stanley Dunham's unwashed libtard oyster ditch.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 17, 2012 02:51 PM (rXGCl)
*snerk*
This is why I love the HQ.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2012 11:10 AM (TIIx5)
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2012 11:10 AM (ETWo2)
interesting i put 'Obama invests in overseas" and 12 pages i'm still getting Bain and Romny.
no problem with that at all here.
Posted by: willow at July 17, 2012 11:11 AM (TomZ9)
I have nothing to add to this, it just needs to be repeated.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 17, 2012 11:12 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 17, 2012 11:12 AM (8y9MW)
http://rncresearch.tumblr.com/
Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2012 11:13 AM (tqwMN)
"OFFSHORE!"
God-blasted stupid fat fingers and sleepy, sleepy brain miserable hot weather busted thirty-year-old airconditioning system what needs specially manufactured part that will be in sometime around Labor Day...
I'm blaming the SCOAMF.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - trying to stay awake in the middle of the afternoon at July 17, 2012 11:13 AM (hLRSq)
He doesn't seem eager to talk about all the foreign deposits made in Stanley Dunham's unwashed libtard oyster ditch.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 17, 2012 02:51 PM (rXGCl)
Harr!
I really should know better than to be taking a drink of something while reading the threads.
Posted by: wheatie at July 17, 2012 11:13 AM (MbB0O)
Posted by: Nighthawk at July 17, 2012 11:14 AM (2lB7O)
@7 "...foreign deposits made in Stanley Dunham's unwashed libtard oyster ditch."
Hey, the poetry thread is over there, pal.
What's the best way to get vomit out of a keyboard?
Posted by: Jaws at July 17, 2012 11:14 AM (4I3Uo)
partial switch — the president is not giving up the teleprompter
entirely — will help him better connect with voters.
Team Obama is desperate and stupid. First, if you want to wean him off the teleprompter, you don't wait until 3 months before the election. Reading off a teleprompter is a skill Obama has honed (I will give him that) but making him do something different will make him look awkward and weird.
And he CANNOT speak extemporaneously. That's when he starts going all Dr. Strangelove and making a commie salute.
One thing, this is probably his stump speech that he gives about 5 times a week so it ought to be memorized. He isn't leaving TOTUS for anything else.
But they don't want teleprompter mockery and so that's why (a) they're doing it and (b) pointing it out to the media.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 17, 2012 11:15 AM (T0NGe)
"Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured ...but not prove they are a citizen."
Posted by: RoyalOil at July 17, 2012 11:15 AM (kSaUf)
Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at July 17, 2012 11:15 AM (QxSug)
6 -
I can't believe no one has asked this yet, but if you were arguing over the meaning of the word "input," does that mean Bill Clinton was at the meeting?
Posted by: BurtTC at July 17, 2012 11:15 AM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Jordan at July 17, 2012 11:16 AM (RSG1I)
Barack Obama has
Investment's in a Man's Country Thing
::puts on glasses:
Oh... I see. I get it now.
Posted by: 66chevelle at July 17, 2012 11:17 AM (QjSgY)
Posted by: Killerdog at July 17, 2012 11:17 AM (NpT96)
73Saw it on the FB today:
"Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to
prove they are insured ...but not prove they are a citizen."
This is....brilliant.
I just thought it needed repeating.
Posted by: wheatie at July 17, 2012 11:17 AM (MbB0O)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 17, 2012 11:18 AM (8y9MW)
Hey, the poetry thread is over there, pal.
What's the best way to get vomit out of a keyboard?<<<<
JOSHUA:/> A CURIOUS THREAD.
JOSHUA:/> THE ONLY WAY TO WIN IS
NOT TO READ.
Posted by: W.O.P.R. at July 17, 2012 11:18 AM (rXGCl)
Posted by: Andrew Breitbart at July 17, 2012 11:18 AM (jyf+9)
Posted by: moki at July 17, 2012 11:19 AM (dZmFh)
What is this mediscare you keep referring to?
Posted by: barack papa doc duvalier obama at July 17, 2012 11:19 AM (mFxQX)
Hah! Got it!
All Trolls are Average Joe, who sucks cock by choice.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 17, 2012 11:20 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Andrew Breitbart at July 17, 2012 11:20 AM (jyf+9)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 17, 2012 11:20 AM (05RcU)
(You think I'm a pedant? I just got out of a meeting with the FAA, where we haggled over the meaning of the word "input")
There's no need to get pedantic about a made up word like offshoring.
It's just as made up as verbing input.
Posted by: eleven at July 17, 2012 11:20 AM (KXm42)
Every day I am more and more convinced these people are simply operating on autopilot. They tore a page out of the John Edwards "Two Americas," and every other low-life, cynical Dem politician who started from the premise that Americans are dumb enough to want to have a class warfare/pigs at the feeding trough fight over who gets what from the federal teet (sorry for the mixed metaphors).
And every day I am more convinced they really don't have a clue what's coming for them. It might depend on how soon it breaks, but if it does break before November, the country is going to so resoundingly reject these idiots that Obama will be lucky to win Illinois.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 17, 2012 11:20 AM (TOk1P)
I have a Bold Prediction: I will go on a spree before this election is over.
Seriously, if it's this stupid now, I don't want to think of how much stupider it's going to get.
Posted by: alexthechick SMOD. Now with more ELE! at July 17, 2012 11:20 AM (VtjlW)
But alas, there are a lot more takers in our society than there used to be.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2012 11:21 AM (Y+wkX)
Barky is outsourcing....his Fundraising, too.
Hannity showed a map last night....which highlighted all the countries around the world, where Barky is doing Fundraising activities.
Posted by: wheatie at July 17, 2012 11:21 AM (MbB0O)
Posted by: kallisto at July 17, 2012 11:21 AM (jm/9g)
"He doesn't seem eager to talk about all the foreign deposits made in Stanley Dunham's unwashed libtard oyster ditch."
Yeah, I think I can guess what an "oyster ditch" is, but, in all seriousness, it sure would be nice if some day we could learn just what Peter Geithner was doing in mentoring Stanley Ann's career in turd-world microfinance all those years.
And how it was that his son, Timothy "Timmy TurboTax" Geithner just HAPPENED to be the NY Fed Chief who laundered the billions in hush money to Goldman Sachs in December of 2008, after Goldman [working out of the Paulson Treasury Dept] had been so kind as to sabotage the McCain campaign back in September of 2008.
You know, there are some who believe that the Dunhams might have been CIA, and that the CIA was controlling their careers [and that L'il Barry Soetoro's 1981/82 trip to Pakistan might have been on the behalf of the CIA].
If so, and if Geithner Pere et Fils were themselves also CIA, then it sure would explain a lot [in an Oliver Stone/Robert Ludlum conspiratorial kinduva fashion].
Posted by: Zombie Shane at July 17, 2012 11:21 AM (Z2i+W)
Posted by: Honey Badger, drinker of mead at July 17, 2012 11:21 AM (GvYeG)
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2012 11:21 AM (WY3bD)
Posted by: Jordan at July 17, 2012 11:22 AM (RSG1I)
Posted by: toby928© at July 17, 2012 11:22 AM (QupBk)
He needs to do more of that. The McCain playbook link is all over, he should read about the opposition research on himself and do preemptive strikes. He can send that huge crowd he's vetting for VP, plus Sununu, cause he's just funny, and maybe cheney, to drive the libs/dems nuts, out there to divulge all the secrets. He can use trump for the big blockbuster secrets. Do it all now, while everyone but hardcore political junkies is on vacation. By the time September comes people will be skipping all the commercials anyway and they'll be numb to all this dumb pettiness.
Posted by: s u n s h i n e at July 17, 2012 11:23 AM (oZfic)
They have to lie too much. The things they want to say, they can't. Obama really wants to scream from the rooftops about the joys of socialism and what a perfect leader he is. But he can't. Even when the mask slips a little, it's a huge gaffe.
That's why they have to be so careful.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 17, 2012 11:24 AM (T0NGe)
There's a basic GIGO attack angle there.
Posted by: tachyonsnuggy at July 17, 2012 11:24 AM (HSQgV)
Posted by: eleven at July 17, 2012 11:24 AM (KXm42)
Posted by: redneck randal at July 17, 2012 11:25 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: s u n s h i n e at July 17, 2012 11:25 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at July 17, 2012 11:25 AM (GBXon)
Posted by: The Duke of East Dallas at July 17, 2012 11:25 AM (KHo8t)
Posted by: cajun carrot at July 17, 2012 11:26 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 17, 2012 03:20 PM (05RcU)
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What a great idea.
Posted by: Baraka's dick-sucking union bosses at July 17, 2012 11:26 AM (gaYoA)
Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at July 17, 2012 11:26 AM (SDkq3)
87 -
Thought experiment for you, genius: Obama accuses Romney of having sex with a woman. Ace posts, saying "hey look, there's evidence Obama had sex with a woman too!" And your response is "name one father who hasn't had sex with a woman!"
See what I'm getting at here? It's kinda the point.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 17, 2012 11:26 AM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 17, 2012 11:27 AM (05RcU)
"Obama really wants to scream from the rooftops about the joys of socialism and what a perfect leader he is. "
"Joys of socialism" - have y'all read about that dude in South Korea who thought it would be a bright idea to emigrate [with his wife and daughters] to North Korea?
Whew.
What. A. Doofus.
Posted by: Zombie Shane at July 17, 2012 11:27 AM (Z2i+W)
Posted by: toby928© at July 17, 2012 11:27 AM (QupBk)
Thank you.
Posted by: eleven at July 17, 2012 11:27 AM (KXm42)
I blame this on Romney's idiot handlers - you know the ones who seem to think going on the Sunday Talk Shows and saying "etch-a-sketch" is a good idea - yeah those guys.
C'mon Romney, let's see some, "Bain is so fucking awesome!" ads dammit. Take it to these guys.
Posted by: Bill Mitchell at July 17, 2012 11:27 AM (hlUJY)
Obama's next campaign commercial:
Mitt Romney: the other white meat.
What's next? Will he start calling him a honky or cracker?
Honestly, could Obama be more inept, underwhelming and divisive?
Posted by: Exile in Exile at July 17, 2012 11:28 AM (+1909)
Posted by: cajun carrot at July 17, 2012 11:28 AM (UZQM8)
Don't we risk alienating persuadable independents by bringing this up?
I think we should look to Dustin Siggins for the answers.
Posted by: jwest at July 17, 2012 11:28 AM (ZDsRL)
Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at July 17, 2012 11:28 AM (GBXon)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 17, 2012 11:29 AM (Pixxe)
Posted by: Barry Soetoro at July 17, 2012 11:29 AM (msPO3)
Posted by: moki at July 17, 2012 11:29 AM (dZmFh)
102 #BeatingOnAmerica
Outsourcing your tax dollars....making you into a Job Creator, overseas.
This is way worse than the old saying..."Beat me, whip me, make me write hot checks".
Barky is writing hot checks to create overseas jobs....and forcing us to pay for it with less and less money in our pockets to do it with.
Posted by: wheatie at July 17, 2012 11:30 AM (MbB0O)
Posted by: WalrusRex at July 17, 2012 11:30 AM (u16FL)
Posted by: The Duke of East Dallas at July 17, 2012 03:25 PM (KHo8t)
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Ocare will cause the US to collapse, not only economically but constitutionally. Outsourcing will be the least of our worries.
Posted by: Soona at July 17, 2012 11:30 AM (gaYoA)
But if they offshore the job out of the country, they don't have to pay this new tax. This can only have the same effect as a tax break for companies that offshore jobs.
Posted by: barack papa doc duvalier obama at July 17, 2012 11:30 AM (mFxQX)
Dick Cheney is going to Capitol Hill to visit top Republican leaders to mainly discuss how to blunt defense budget cuts.
I also hope that 'Big Dick' takes time out to slap around a few Repubs (crying Boehner, et. al.) tell them to man up and save their country or else he's coming back and it won't be pretty.
Posted by: Cheri at July 17, 2012 11:30 AM (G+Wff)
Posted by: The Universal Buggy Whip Co. at July 17, 2012 11:31 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - trying to stay awake in the middle of the afternoon at July 17, 2012 11:31 AM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Jordan at July 17, 2012 11:32 AM (RSG1I)
Posted by: The Universal Buggy Whip Co. at July 17, 2012 03:31 PM (QKKT0)
Yea, but you import the wood from Brazil
Posted by: barack papa doc duvalier obama at July 17, 2012 11:32 AM (mFxQX)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 17, 2012 11:33 AM (05RcU)
Posted by: cajun carrot at July 17, 2012 11:33 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: Zombie Shane at July 17, 2012 03:27 PM (Z2i+W)
If only all Libtards would suffer a similar dose of hard justice. The world would be a better place.
Posted by: Reactionary at July 17, 2012 11:34 AM (xUM1Q)
Posted by: Barky O'Dogeater at July 17, 2012 11:37 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: toby928© at July 17, 2012 11:37 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2012 11:38 AM (tqwMN)
Posted by: toby928© at July 17, 2012 11:39 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: Jordan at July 17, 2012 11:40 AM (RSG1I)
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at July 17, 2012 11:40 AM (+lsX1)
"If only all Libtards would suffer a similar dose of hard justice."
In addition to the question of whether the Dunhams [and the Geithners] might actually have been CIA, another thing folks have been wondering about is this whole question of neo-feudalism, and whether the Libtards WANT to re-create North Korea in the USA, precisely because they envision themselves as Kim Jong Il and the gang, partying all night on champagne and caviar and whores, while all of us flyover-country serfs are left trying to survive on a diet of grass and tree bark.
Seriously.
Rush Limbaugh almost went there today [he got so far as to say, "we all know what the real answer is"], but there just seems to be this steadfast reluctance on the part of the Right to confront the awful truth which is that the Left really does want to destroy this country.
On the other hand, I heard David Horowitz say that very thing on television the other day , so there are some people out there who are starting to broach the topic.
Posted by: Zombie Shane at July 17, 2012 11:43 AM (Z2i+W)
Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at July 17, 2012 11:45 AM (YmPwQ)
Posted by: WalrusRex at July 17, 2012 11:46 AM (u16FL)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 17, 2012 11:46 AM (05RcU)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 17, 2012 11:47 AM (05RcU)
159 -
People aren't going to want to hear this, because there are still lots of bitter feelings about it, but what Perry and Gingrich did was point out the fact that Romney didn't want to go into detail about his business dealings. Romney LOOKED like he was hiding something. I know plenty of folks around here were flummoxed that Republican candidates for President were seeming to express a certain distaste for Capitalism (with a Capital C!!), so it might be nice if, now that the primaries are over, we could all acknowledge that they were not, of course, doing that.
Apparently not though.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 17, 2012 11:48 AM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Jordan at July 17, 2012 11:50 AM (RSG1I)
Posted by: Honey Badger, drinker of mead at July 17, 2012 11:51 AM (GvYeG)
Posted by: Jordan at July 17, 2012 03:50 PM (RSG1I)
"...he's since flip flopped to Huckleberry Finn, a safer choice..."
Ninja, please...In what universe?
Posted by: 66chevelle at July 17, 2012 11:55 AM (QjSgY)
Oh bullshit, they did exactly what Obama is doing now. They were crying about the poor factory worker that was ass-raped by Romney's rapacious greed. Ask ace, even he picked up the baton and ran with it for a little while.
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at July 17, 2012 11:55 AM (+lsX1)
Posted by: Honey Badger, drinker of mead at July 17, 2012 11:57 AM (GvYeG)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 17, 2012 03:46 PM (05RcU)
Comrade, you forget that our nomenklatura cronies get to skim some funds from the Chevy Volt and Solyndra investments, but the troops don't contribute to the Party and besides we suppress their vote, so we don't need to worry about them!
Posted by: Chairman Obamao at July 17, 2012 11:59 AM (Cnqmv)
Apparently not though.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 17, 2012 03:48 PM (TOk1P)"
There was a WSJ editorial about Romney not quite wanting to really take ownership of what private equity does, essentially, and accusing him of turning his career more into a venture capital scenario. The former deals with the unfortunate fact that, over time, with bad management, market shifts, whatever, companies become bloated and uncompetitive. It really is a case of triage at that point, where some assets and people need to be let go and some stay. And sometimes the few that stay only stay because others' jobs got offshored. I know a lot of people in the field and some of what they do isn't pretty, but the alternative is most often worse. Venture capital, on the other hand, is all about growth and new technology and other more "sexy" stuff. So, I can see where this perception of Romney comes from. He's talking about himself as a "businessman" in the abstract more than a "private equity" guy in particular.
Fact is, the US government needs a private equity guy more trying to bring it back under control more than it needs a guy like Obama playing venture capitalist with the taxpayers' money, trying to find new things for government to expand into.
Another thing that I think is at play is just the difference between business and government. Having participated in a few projects that led to mass layoffs myself, the one thing that you notice right away is that at a certain point, debate about whether the layoffs are good or bad is just over and the only thing driving day-to-day decision-making are the cold, hard numbers and facts. It's also very autocratic and in a business context like that where a Bain Capital comes in to your company, what Mitt Romney says is what goes. No questioning his authority like it's some kind of democracy. It's so different from the touchy-feely bullshit discourse in the political arena where every American's vote counts as much as the next guy's, no matter how stupid one of them is. I'm sure that Romney has more stories along the lines of "Those guys told me that we might be able to survive if we only cut 1000 jobs and shut down 1 plant, but I told them to stuff it, we're cutting 2000 and shutting down 2 plants because then we'll definitely survive." That's just the nature of the role he played in that business. But voters don't want to hear about that sort of autocratic decision-making.
Yes, I know that government is actually the worst in terms of treating people like numbers, but, and I'll never really understand how anyone could believe it, the huge hulking government apparatus of the advanced Western nations has somehow convinced a good chunk of its citizenry that it's "compassionate" and "cares" about each and every one of them. The very rhetoric of it makes me puke, but lots of idiots lap that shit up like mother's milk, like that retard who thought Obama was going to pay her fucking mortgage.
What I really wish, though, and maybe I just haven't looked for it enough, is that Romney would tie in the need to develop our energy resources and the ability to generate significant numbers of jobs for exactly the type of worker who's been getting the shaft over the past few decades as the offshoring boom has been taking place. Energy production jobs can't be offshored, by their nature, and they'll be more blue-collar than white-collar. If I were Romney, one way I would talk about my experiences in offshoring work would be to say that some of that work had to be offshored in part because we weren't doing enough to develop energy resources here in the US, which raised the cost to manufacture (manufacturing is massively energy-intensive), which meant that the ability to save a few bucks an hour on labor made the shift to non-US locations worth it. Obviously, that's not the whole story of offshoring, but it's part of it and that ramping up energy production can help slow offshoring as well.
Posted by: BS Inc. at July 17, 2012 12:56 PM (P2Ufm)
Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2012 02:16 PM (6o4Fb)
I agree, it was idiotic, treacherous, and self-destructive. They were basically anti-capitalist for a while in their desperation to win and gain power and it was repulsive to behold.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 17, 2012 03:21 PM (r4wIV)
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