I believe Newt Gingrich (we should call him "The Grinch") and Rick Perry's attacks on Mitt Romney's years at Bain will backfire on them. They sound envious and desperate.
It's really sad when Republicans adopt class warfare like Obama. Most Americans love and appreciate the free market system. Bain is a company where private investors take risks with their own money, not government money, to create great companies and receive a return on their investment. Mitt and Bain have helped create outstanding businesses with hundreds of thousands of jobs, like Sports Authority, Staples, Domino's pizza, Brookstone, Sealy. etc.
We lived in Boston when Mitt was at Bain Capital. We had several friends that worked for Bain. They were encouraged and motivated to build companies and create more jobs! They were very pro-business and pro-growth.
Bain has a 3-to-1 ratio of creating successful businesses.
Obama's failed at being a venture capitalist, pumping billions of taxpayer dollars into companies like Solydra that was followed by bankruptcy and layoffs, Telsa Motors and FiskerAutomotives to build electric cars, and his intervention to help save Chrysler and GM. I can't wait to see what Mitt can do for America like he did in job-creating at Bain, turning around the Olympics when it was in financial ruins and scandals and getting Massachusetts out of debt. He's the only candidate who has the organization, money and experience in the private sector and government to beat Obama! Our country needs Mitt!
Heather Sandstrom
Mesa
Dale Whiting posted at 8:41 am on Fri, Jan 20, 2012.
Heather,
You state "It's really sad when Republicans adopt class warfare like Obama." The President has kept a distance between him and those who Republicans accuse of adopting "Class Warfare." Heck, even the street north of the Whitehouse was "occupied." Your neo-con blind prejudice is showing! Better try wearing a longer skirt!
Government does creat jobs. We have government jobs a plenty, including jobs "fighting terrorism" on several continents, and Mitt has sworn to keep those jobs going strong!
But your inferrence that Mitt can use his venture capital talents to pick and choose those ventures to back just does not square up with the rhetoric other conservatives are spouting.
Care to take this piece back to the drawing board and try it again? Mitt will be keeping his distance from you!
Accuracy posted at 10:20 am on Fri, Jan 20, 2012.
Dale Whiting …. Your neo-con name-calling (condemnation) is showing again! And as always, Liberal offensive names without objective consideration of the facts.
Heather Sandstrom is only upset that in the debates Mitt Romney's rivals have delivered blows of how Romney's firm, Bain Capital, destroyed lives by leaving companies in shambles while it profited.
The mud-slinging has reached new lows . . . since the primary in South Carolina will take place tomorrow. But the Romney's rivals have not yet pointed out that there’s no difference between un-conservative Republican Mitt Romney and Liberal Democrat Senator Harry Reid.
Concerning current GOP front-runner Mitt Romney, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said it best; "The establishment is once again telling us to fall in line and vote for their backroom, hand-picked moderate candidate."
Dale Whiting posted at 4:38 pm on Fri, Jan 20, 2012.
Inaccuracy,
I read Heather's piece. I know she is upset and she tells us why. The issue I address is also set forth quite clearly. Heather mischaracterizes the plain truth.
First, she claims that the President has adopted "class warfare." The notion of there being a war between the classes is a Republican concept. Most recently it stems from the "occupy" movement from which the President kept his distance. It was Republicans who characterized the 99% vs 1% as class warfare. But there are earlier roots for this warfare. Read on.
Second, having characterized the occupy concept as class warfare, now Republicans are being critisized for aboption from the President of the very concept they, themselves created! This is astounding reasoning, illogical from the start.
Now, you and I understand that neo-con is short for Neo-conservative. Gingrich did not create Neo-conservatism, but he did adopt and pretty much took it over during his congressional years. Now Gingrich has returned and he's up to his old tricks. He has a patented list of terms he adopted almost 30 years ago to characterize the disputes between Democrats and Republicans as warfare. We moderate conservatives are condemned as consorting with the enemy. And you Neo-conservatives out there are allowing him to do it! If you believe that "neo-con" is a codemnation, then chose someone other than Gingrich. He is today's modern Neo-conservative. And for us traditional conservatives, that is a grave condemnation.
Accuracy posted at 7:19 am on Sat, Jan 21, 2012.
Dale Whiting’s quote; “If you believe that "neo-con" is a codemnation, then chose someone other than Gingrich”. If there is a Dale Whiting "codemnation" word.
To name-caller Dale…… As I said before; “Your neo-con name-calling (condemnation) is showing again!” In other words, your usual habitual derogatory and disparaging use of offensive names.
Dale Whiting posted at 8:03 am on Sat, Jan 21, 2012.
Look, Accuracy,
It is you, not I, who find offense in the term "Neo-con". For me, it is short for Neo-conservative. And your campaign to find offense where none was intended seems taken from Newt Gingrich's play book, the one designed by Newt in the 80's to fight rather than cooperate with the other party. Those of us who take exception to Newt's ideas call ourselves True Conservatives and we see ourselves as cast from the mold of the likes of Bill Buckley, Jr. and Russell Kirk. Did you read my piece on Kirk? The Neo-con revolution likes to call us True Conservatives RINO's. Is that a disparaging term? I find that Neo-cons are conservative in name only.
Accuracy posted at 10:16 am on Sat, Jan 21, 2012.
Disenchanted with American conservatives, social critic Russell Kirk did give a lecture at the Heritage Foundation in 1988, titled "The Neoconservatives: An Endangered Species”.
Then, thirty years ago neoconservative meant a former Liberal who became a Conservative. They were mostly ex-liberals, by and large out of the intellectual community, that seemed less ideological than other Conservatives and brought much more of a social science background to their argumentation.
But continuously, name-calling Dale Whiting uses the epithet cliché as a short-term shortcut for any/all advocates that “DO NOT” support or promote Barack Hussein Obama, and all Liberals and Democrats.
Dale Whiting posted at 11:21 am on Sat, Jan 21, 2012.
Yes, Accuracy,
in its earliest roots, neoconservatism was populated by many former Democrats, as well as long time Republicans. I have added my comments in brackets to a summary I lifted from Wikipedia.
“Some influential members of the early neoconservative movement, such as Elliot Abrams, were originally members of the Democratic Party, where they advocated for "cold war liberalism". [I would argue that this position is sustained today by Neo-cons now calling themselves Republicans.] They have been in electoral alignment with other conservatives and served in the same presidential administrations. While they have often ignored ideological differences in alliance against those to their left, neoconservatives differ from paleoconservatives [the likes of me]. In particular, they disagree with nativism, protectionism, and non-interventionism in foreign policy, ideologies that are rooted in American history, but which have fallen out of the mainstream U.S. politics after World War II. [We, meaning both parties, no longer are non-interventionists. Ron Paul critisizes his fellow candidates for this.] Compared with traditionalist conservatism [me] and libertarianism [Ron Paul], which may be non-interventionist, neoconservatism emphasizes defense capability [that was made abundently clear in the recent Republican Debates], challenging regimes [which these Neo-cons view as being] hostile to the values and interests of the United States. Neoconservatives also believe in democratic peace theory, the proposition that democracies never or almost never go to war with one another. [Which is balderdash!]
“Neoconservatives are opposed to realist (and especially neorealist) theories and policies of international relations, often associated with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. [We hear today’s Neo-cons singing the praises of Reagan but shying away from Nixon/Kissinger] Though Republican and anti-communist, Nixon and Kissinger made pragmatic accommodation with dictators and sought peace through negotiations, diplomacy, and arms control. They pursued détente with the Soviet Union, rather than rollback, and established relations with the Communist People's Republic of China. On the other hand, American neoconservatives are often held up as exemplars of idealism (often, paradoxically, called liberalism) in international relations, on account of their state-centered and ideological (as opposed to systematic and security-centered) interpretation of world politics.”
So you see Leon,
Newt Gingrich took hold of the Neo-con movement during the term of Reagan, pushed it on through the first term of Bill Clinton until he was removed under disgrace after 1994 and is now bringing it back! Today’s Neo-cons just do not recognize the roots of their ideology.
Accuracy posted at 4:55 pm on Sat, Jan 21, 2012.
This time Dale Whiting posted; "So you see Leona,"
Meaning he is now trying to get Leon Ceniceros to accept his ironic 'Neo-con' sarcasm.