As a test of my description of the GOP’s raison d’etre who will attack Mitt Romney, his own party or the Democrats?
When you look at their cultures with a few recent examples, you’ll see the GOP will likely be the aggressors.
The Democrats are forgiving patsies and the GOP politicians have regularly committed transgressions. The GOP realizes that they will be permitted to commit crimes with impunity because the Democrats want to govern the country, and not have it, and Congress, tied up with trials and subpoenas. A sizable majority of Democrats wanted Bush 43 prosecuted for lying to the country and forcing us into the Iraq war and committing torture, but President Obama wanted to govern, not prosecute.
Now the US needs jobs and the GOP presidential frontrunner has a history of “loving to fire people” and blunders into saying that exact phrase.
The article’s headline “GOP Speaks Out On Romney’s ‘Greed’: ‘He Likes Firing People,’ ‘Bankrupting’ Them, And ‘Taking All The Money’” makes it clear that if you aren’t a 100% right-wing fanatic the GOP will take no hostages and sacrifice you–GOP politician or not.
The article states “As Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital comes under increasing scrutiny, even Republicans are attacking the presidential frontrunner for generating billions in profit by bankrupting companies and implementing massive layoffs.
Romney founded Bain, a private equity firm, in 1984 and was its first CEO. Since that time, Bain made billions by, as the Los Angeles Times writes, “firing workers, seeking government subsidies, and flipping companies quickly for large profits.” In all, Bain bankrupted nearly one-quarter of the companies it invested in, often causing “substantial job losses,” according to a new Wall Street Journal report.”
All of the candidates savaged Romney with Newt Gingrich’s being typical. As the article states Gingrich said “Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that, in fact, the whole goals of investment is entrepreneurship and job creation, would find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever, legal ways to loot out a company.”
You have to wonder about Romney’s intelligence. This gaffe will haunt him forever. I can see President Obama on a stage debating Romney with a huge placard saying “I love firing people.”
Democrats would do well to let his friends in the GOP pummel Romney, but they have to say something.
The article states “Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), chair of the Democratic National Committee, said on Tuesday that Romney “had the opportunity to be specific,” but instead he “broadened it out and generalized and said that he likes firing people who provide services to him.”
Romney is urgently expending effort to claim he’s a job creator and is desperately attempting to make a connection to the middle class. This will ruin his chance of accomplishing either.
He reminds me of Mr. Potter in “A Wonderful Life”. Every red stater gets that movie drummed into their sub-conscious during their one joyful part of the year.
Imagine a President Obama against Romney debate. President Obama could say that people such as Romney stole children’s Christmas presents, by taking away their parent’s livelihood for their own profit. During this debate President Obama could lift up a poster comparing Romney’s face with Mr. Potter’s. From the pictured the phrase “I like firing people”. The election would be over then!
Even red staters can understand enjoying destroying people’s ability to work and provide for their families is reprehensible!
The Democrats piled on Romney, but not as savagely as his GOP competitors.
The Democrats’ anger is directed at helping the bottom 99%, while the GOP’s efforts are focused on winning the next election even if they have to ruin a fellow GOP competitor.