10 thoughts on “Did Newt Do Romney A Favor With His Bain Attacks?”

  1. Before these attacks I favored Newt. Now, as much as I loath what Romney did with health care, he stands a good chance of getting my vote in the primary.

    “I like being able to fire people” vs. “I like firing people” is a huge difference.

  4. +1 to Peterh. Newt did me a favor as well; no way I’d vote for him now. This illustrates how elastic most Pol’s points of views are. No wonder the Dems are able to twist our positions against us to such effect. This was *the* year for a full-throated, unapologetic defense of liberty and free markets, and we’re going to get another round of unconvincing squishes.
    The more I see of these clowns, the more I wonder why Palin sat this one out. She could have mopped the floor with every last one of them before turning her sights on Obama and his merry Marxists.
    Or Fred Thompson, for that matter.

  6. Newt is probably the best candidate for space and science ever to have run for the presidency in the history of the United States. And yet the discussion here reflects nothing but the Establishment narrative.

    If you were to watch “STRONG AMERICA NOW” on YouTube, you could find out for yourself. I thought you were outside the box original thinkers.

    I’m not a science person and I come here to learn.

    But I know about Gingrich and you don’t.

    And this includes Rand.

    And apparently no one has taken the trouble to find out the facts that the disintermediating, empowering effect of the internet has put at your fingertips.

    Self government requires more than this of the citizens. I thought Rand’s readers would be enthusiastic or at least informed critics.

    Newt as president is the opportunity of a lifetime for anyone who loves manufacturing, aerospace, space, energy production, brain science, medicine, engineering — how do you not see that?

    Newt is not attacking Romney from the Left. Newt is saying that some of Bain Capital’s business practices may have been a kind of capturing companies that were viable, loading them up with debt, sucking the value out including paying themselves out of the debt, and emptying the pension funds, and then leaving them to fail or not, and the government to cover the lost pension funds one way or another. I don’t know if that’s true, but Romney’s acting as if the questions are unfair. That is preposterous. This is half of Romney’s claim to be electable. What a farce.

    Is the idea that because we love free enterprise and want individual initiative, we are not allowed to inquire as to the character of a man who has won exactly ONE election in his life, LOST (I read in a landslide) to Teddy Kennedy, LOST last time to McCain who LOST to Obama? Didn’t try to get re-elected in Massachusetts because his numbers were so bad, according to what I read.

    I would prefer Newt in any case. Newt has plans for how to put us back on a prosperous road starting the first day, after the inauguration ceremony. You should know about that. Do you?

    End all White House czars by Executive Order. Use the same strategy for HIGH tax REVENUES and LOW tax RATES as Reagan did — using the Laffer Curve.
    Repeal Obamacare ASAP and then get to work immediately passing a series of smaller bills to shift healthcare to make coverage affordable and keep the doctor-patient relationship at the heart of healthcare. There is so much more.

    Newt has a speech he gave at the National Alzheimers’ Annual Awards Banquet in about the breakthroughs coming in brain science and what that means for all kinds of mental illnesses, and the costs that drive healthcare, and medicare, and our future.

    The Establishment is pulling a bait and switch on us with Romney. At least get the knowledge to fight back.

    IMO Newt is the answer. I collected 17 of his speeches and they are on Facebook at NEWT GINGRICH SPEECHES. Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Start with “2012: VICTORY OR DEATH,” about George Washington and the small army of Americans who crossed the Delaware on Christmas Eve in the Revolutionary War and why their password was “victory or death.”

    I wish you guys all the best. I love transterrestrial musings. I often learn things here I had not known before. I had no idea about our space policy, for example.

    Most of you guys are super smart. How about some critique based on Newt’s actual proposals.

  7. Or start with “STRONG AMERICA NOW,” which is much more science, QI Lean Six Sigma, engineering and manufacturing oriented.

  8. Re: Hope Change
    Back to Rand’s original point…there are any number of legitimate attacks to be made against Romney that don’t involve assaults that will be easily chopped up and repackaged by the Dems and MSM (redundant, I know).
    Newt’s positions and proposals are brilliant but his judgment has always been questionable once the personal assaults on his ego begin.
    Don’t judge this place based on quick posts or comments. It’s awfully hard to get the full spectrum of an argument across in a few sentences, which is all most of us have any time for.
    Speaking for myself, I’ve been following this blog for several years and likewise learned a lot about space policy and was led to some great resources on the mechanics of spaceflight in the bargain. It helped immensely with research for a novel I wrote, and is a great example of how the internet accelerates learning for the discerning.
    Yep, meant to rhyme that…

  10. I can’t help but get the sense that, like McCain, Romney is the guy they want if they don’t get Obama again. The Dems game IA and NH greatly.

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