South Carolina Primary Thread

After Newt! attacked Romney for knowing French, I fully expect him to drag Romney's Mexican roots into this.

 

How dare he speak the language of those appeasers! If anything, they should change the name of the language to "Freedom!"

 

Anthony Weiner felt the same way.

 

When an immovable object meets an irresistible ego...the deaf guy wins, as Newt backs down to Rush.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-newt-gingrich-pac-bain-ads-20120113,0,3413654.story

 

The words "Rush Limbaugh" do not appear anywhere in this story.

 

No, but who was the prominent conservative talk radio yapper who went after Newt! for attacking Romney from that angle?

 

Not disputing that at all, just noting the lack of depth in the reporting.

 

Bill Press just cut loose with some bon mots on MSNBC. Check your Googles.

 

Romney: Corporate Welfare Bum.... Consider if you will what Mitt Romney had to say about welfare and dependency at CPAC in February 2008:

"The threat to our culture comes from within. The 1960's welfare programs created a culture of poverty. Some think we won that battle when we reformed welfare, but the liberals haven't given up. At every turn, they try to substitute government largesse for individual responsibility. Dependency is death to initiative, risk-taking and opportunity. Dependency is a culture-killing drug. We have got to fight it like the poison it is"
Bain Capital hired lobbyists who persuaded the federal government to give GS Industries a loan guarantee. However, the company went bankrupt in 2001 before the loan could be delivered.

The question here is if one can make millions of dollars whether a company succeeds or fails then where is the risk-taking Romney speaks of so fondly? Look there isn't any evidence to suggest that Romney or Bain made their money illegally. Yet you don't have to support the Occupy movement to know that the playing field is pro-business, not pro-market. So it is disingenuous on Romney's part to decry welfare dependency as a poison to be fought when he has been more than happy to go before the government, role up his sleeve and have another form of poison injected into his arm and then come back for more. Romney is equally disingenuous to suggest that any criticism of his tenure at Bain Capital is an attack on free enterprise itself especially when he never practiced free enterprise in the first place. Mitt Romney is what I would call a corporate welfare bum
http://spectator.org/blog/2012/01/13/romney-corporate-welfare-bum

 

Good thing Mitt is an advocate of how great a bargain for-profit schools are.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/us/politics/mitt-romney-offers-praise-for-a-donors-business.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=full%20sail&st=cse

 

Brutal story.

Mitt moves his hips faster than Rick Perry does.

Crony capitalism . . . learn it, live it, XXXX it.

 

I'm kind of surprised about Romney's lead in the SC polls, given the evangelical vote and the historical stubbornness of SC - just doesn't seem like a state that he would do well in.
Figure Nikki Hailey moves to the front of the VP candidates with her endorsement. No one will confuse her with Palin.