Rolling Stone Pisses on Romney's Parade

That was a hit piece. It also skipped the part where Romney turned the company around. As a manager, Romney was tough, drove a hard bargain, and negotiated a deal with the banks that was at favorable enough terms to turn the company around. I don't know how much of his own capital he put into Bain, but he sure acted ballsy with negotiations. I'm not sure so many others would be willing to make a career move where the odds of success were so low. It makes me more comfortable that he can turn this country's financial disaster around.

Thanks for the article.
 
Right, we need a guy with that kind of Chutzpah and negotiating skill working on behalf of America's taxpayers. The job is to convince us that when he's president he'll care more about us than his cronies, since ostensibly he will be working for us, not the people harvesting cash from Bain while creditors and the FDIC were giving it up.
 
Wait just one cotton-picking second.... you mean to tell me that Rolling Stone does not like Mitt Romney. I am shocked!!! Shocked, I say!!!
 
The polical climate today forces the voters to make a presupposition that all candidates in major races are morally and ethically bankrupt to a large extent. They worked their way to the top by utilizing shrewd, deceitful, and corrupt political maneuvers. Once that sad fact is acknowledged, a choice must still be made in order to remain active in the political process.

Do I vote for Scumbag (R) or Scumbag (D)? Which one do do the most harm / good for the country?

I sure don't think we can withstand four more years of scumbag (D). Therefore, I'm forced to vote for scumbag (R) and hopefully buy some time until a more formidable or impressive candidate is on the ballot.

It's a shame it has come to this, but in order to defeat scumbag (D) and his destructive & devisive policies, I will be supporting scumbag (R). At least his vision for the future of the country is more in line with mine.
Until we demand that at least a semblence of integrity return to the political stage, that will have to do.
 
I 35 I don't know how Romney will be as president. It was an honest question. I don't presume to know the answer. If it was Rick Perry I'd know the average taxpayer is screwed. With Romney, I'm honestly pretty hopeful that he sees the presidency as a way to impact history, not reward his sponsors.
 
Here is another perspective. I tend to agree with this one. Mitt Romney did not create the mess that lead to Bank of New England (under FDIC control at the time) having a bad debt on its books. He did do a very good job of trying to salvage value on behalf of debt-holders.

The article also makes a good point about how the term bailout is really not appropriate. The FDIC does not do bailouts. It does workouts. Two very very different things.

Bain Turnaround
 
I think what tells me the most that Romney cares more about what he can do for America is the fact that not only does he donate (in %)15 X's of his own money to charities than BHO and Biden put together does with their own money, but he turned down after he lost in the GOP Prim in 2008 a job offer of $30 million a year. That tells me he is not self serving and more about getting our country on the right track. You may not agree with his ideas, but nobody can claim he won't do what he feels is best for America. Can you say the same about Obama?
 
Good point. There is arse-load of cognitive dissonance on display when trying to pin Romney as some sort of greedy pillager.
 
Does anybody for a moment doubt that Mitt Romney, like Obama, is a hypocritical pathological liar who will take any political position if he sees momentary political gain in doing so?


It's very disturbing that these two men are the best our political parties can seemingly generate.

At a time when we need real patriots and real public servants, we're give endless superpac attack ads.

Great going, guys. Wonderful talent your parties are giving the American people to choose from.

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OK....so his position today is in conflict with his position in 1984. Is that a reason to favor the current failure in the WH and give him four more years? I think not.
 
The funny thing for me is that the original Romney (or the first one I remember seeing, there may have been earlier versions) was pretty close to where I am politically. The far right fans of Ryan scare the **** out of me. And Romney is such a chamelion, saying whatever is necessary to satisfy his imediate audience. I am less afraid of Obama and a Republican Congress. They aren't going to let him do anything. But if Romney actually believes the **** he is currently spouting, and the far right have his reins in hand, then this country could get real scarry real quick.

We really owe it to our kids to try and build a viable party that is more representative of the middle without having to suck off the left or right in order to gain the nomination. Anyone remember the Texacrats?
 
Where the hit piece fails is the following: Let's say any of you were put in charge of Bain and you hired Romney to turn the company around. If Romney didn't negotiate the best deal possible, you would have fired him. Romney did exactly as he was suppose to do in his roll as CEO. He turned the company around, he lead, and he negotiated extremely well with his creditors. There is no hypocrisy whatsoever, and I would hope that the same traits that he exhibited at Bain that made him successful would translate over to president. Success isn't a bad word.
 
First, that excerpt was Rolling Stone conjecture. Second, I find it difficult to assume that Romney was gullible enough to believe that a company on the verge of bankruptcy could fulfill any of the promises made to him. The only promises that Bain could possibly keep were ones that didn't rely on money. Third, before I would return to a company on a precipitous decline, I would want some sort of guarantees as well. Whether those guarantees were the ones that Rolling Stone guessed are a matter of personal opinion, though. But, there is nothing wrong with protecting yourself, especially when there are better job options available.
 
"I don't know how good of a President Romney will be. If we did know how bad Candidates would be as President, then Nixon or Dubya would have never been elected. "

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