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Title: Who Are You Mitt?
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URL Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIeekoQfqVU
Published: Jun 20, 2011
Author: RinoMitt
Post Date: 2011-11-18 04:05:58 by GreyLmist
Keywords: Mitt Romney, RINO
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#1. To: All (#0)
4um thread: Mitt Romney Not Eligible?
------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
Ron Paul: The only Republican / Conservative at the debates. All of the others, in the interest of honesty and transparency, should form the GLOBALIST QUASI SOCIALIST / FASCIST PARTY. If the recent rise of Gingrich's poll numbers are actual and not just some more MSM bullshit - the "DUMBING DOWN of AMERIKA" is a complete success. "the man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, “Limit yourself”; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian." Murray Rothbard
Great ad. : )
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11 "Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
ain't that the truth! Sometimes the ship tacks right, sometimes it tacks left but it is always sailing in the same direction. Voting lesser of two evils is asking for the ship to tack again. It doesn't change the direction. - farmfriend
Mitt is whoever you want him to be and oh, by the way, how much can you contribute to his campaign???
#2. To: GreyLmist (#0)
#3. To: GreyLmist (#0)
#4. To: noone222 (#2)
If the recent rise of Gingrich's poll numbers are actual and not just some more MSM bullshit - the "DUMBING DOWN of AMERIKA" is a complete success.
#5. To: GreyLmist (#0)
Who Are You Mitt?
-Alex Kurtagic
#6. To: farmfriend (#4)
On my way in to lunch I heard Limbaugh promoting him "big time" ...
"Anyone intent upon achieving "smaller government" should consider quitting the current fraud."
#7. To: noone222 (#6)
Not surprising. I expect he'll get the nomination. I thought Perry would take it early on but they seem to be pushing Mitt. Rush just kinda seals it. Sad state of affairs. On my way in to lunch I heard Limbaugh promoting him "big time" ...
Sometimes the ship tacks right, sometimes it tacks left but it is always sailing in the same direction. Voting lesser of two evils is asking for the ship to tack again. It doesn't change the direction. - farmfriend
#8. To: farmfriend (#7)
Rush was pushing Gingrich ... which could be another ply to get the attention focused on Newt so everyone can attack his laundry list of treasonous activities and subversion against this country ... so that Americans will once again be glad to hold their noses and vote for Mitt ! Rush just kinda seals it. Sad state of affairs
"Anyone intent upon achieving "smaller government" should consider quitting the current fraud."
#9. To: noone222 (#8)
yeah that works too. hard to second guess what the plan is but we know there is a plan.
Sometimes the ship tacks right, sometimes it tacks left but it is always sailing in the same direction. Voting lesser of two evils is asking for the ship to tack again. It doesn't change the direction. - farmfriend
#10. To: farmfriend (#9)
Watch out or Ron Paul will run as a Libertarian and get Obummer selected .... I say shoot em all ! but we know there is a plan.
"Anyone intent upon achieving "smaller government" should consider quitting the current fraud."
#11. To: noone222, abraxas, farmfriend, X-15, Original_Intent, All (#1) (Edited)
Thanks for stopping by. Am recommending this article on Gingrich: 27 Reasons Why Newt Gingrich Would Be A Really, Really Bad President On Romney, aside from the natural born citizen issue (linked in the opening post above) per his eligibility for the Presidency, Democrats questioned his eligibility to run for Governor of Massachusettes because of State residency issues. He was a one-term Governor whose Health Care interests may have been intertwined with his business ventures in the Medical sector. Flagging Original_Intent to that data here and here. The first link notes his reputation as a "turnaround artist", which is overly polite shorthand for cheap buyouts of debt-ridden companies and layoffs. Am posting a list of several more links in the next post, with particular attention to the Clear Channel takeover by the company Romney co-founded, Bain Capital, as it pertains to rigged campaign coverage by the media. Edited last sentence. Gingrich is a big time Washington insider who believes in individual health care mandates, who supported the bailouts, who was instrumental in cramming NAFTA down the throats of the American people and who is either soft or wrong on just about every single issue that conservatives care about.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#12. To: GreyLmist, noone222, abraxas, X-15, Original_Intent, (#11)
There is also a great Youtube put out by JBS that shows Newt's record. He is a globalist, no doubt about it.
Sometimes the ship tacks right, sometimes it tacks left but it is always sailing in the same direction. Voting lesser of two evils is asking for the ship to tack again. It doesn't change the direction. - farmfriend
#13. To: All (#11)
cbsnews.com - MoneyWatch: How Mitt Romney Is to Blame for Hundreds of Layoffs at Clear Channel Radio, October 28, 2011 That debt came from the financing of a buyout of Clear Channel back in 2006. At the time, Clear Channel was also a healthy functioning business -- it had just $8 billion in debt, and saw net income -- real profits after interest payments - - of $691 million for the year on growing revenues of $7 billion. But that just wasn't good enough for the folks at Bain Capital Partners, the private equity group. Bain and its partners bought Clear Channel at that time, but the buyout loaded the company with roughly $12 billion in more debts -- which still isn't paid off. The debts are so large they threaten the future of the company. About $1 billion in Clear Channel's debt comes due in 2014, and another $10.4 billion comes due in 2016. ____________ Bain Capital's Romney aiming for politics after Olympics, Date: Thursday, August 23, 2001 Before taking the Olympics job, Romney previously interrupted his business career in 1994 for a failed bid as Republican challenger to Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy. Mitt Romney Buys Clear Channel, Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 Romney's Bain Capital Buys Clear Channel Communications, First Posted: 12-14-07 | Updated: 03-28-08 Mitt Romney's VC [Venture Capital] Firm to Buy Clear Channel, December 14, 2007 Clear Channel owns more than 1,100 full-power AM, FM, and shortwave radio stations, twelve radio channels on XM Satellite Radio, and more than 30 television stations in the United States. Premiere Radio Networks, which is the largest syndication company in the United States, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Clear Channel and is home to Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and many others. Sean Hannity recently signed a large multi-market contract with Clear Channel, as well. From an anonymous email: It should be noted that Mitt Romney, while no longer the CEO, remains a silent partner of Bain Capital. Romney, Beck, Limbaugh and Clear Channel Communications -- undated article Clear Channel is no stranger to shilling for Republican Neo-cons and their causes: "The Clear Channel's activities go beyond radio. In March 2003, its affiliate stations throughout the United States organized pro-war rallies, under the name of Rally for America, to coincide with the Bush administration's launch of war with Iraq. [Am noting here that Romney was a Pro- Vietnam War activist but got a student-deferment, then a draft-deferral from the Mormon church to work in France as a Missionary instead of going to the War he supported and hawked for others, "then got another student deferment.[23] [31] When those ran out, his high number in the December 1969 draft lottery (300) meant he would not be selected.[11][23][31][32]" Ref.] Largest private equity firms -- Bain Capital 7th of 50 for 2011 How complete are this candidate's campaign finance reports? [for the 2008 election cycle] Incomplete $562,014 No Disclosure $4,688,195As a business, Clear Channel is doing quite well. It made revenue of $1.6 billion in Q2 2011, up from $1.5 billion the year before. It showed an operating profit of $311 million, from stations such as KTU in New York and KIIS FM in Los Angeles. Clear Channel's problem is that is also had a quarterly interest payments of $359 million -- more than its operating profits. That interest is being paid on a staggering $20 billion in debt.
Romney, 54, is giving up his 100 percent control of Bain Capital to 26 managing directors. The firm has made 170 venture and buyout investments in companies like pizza delivery chain Domino's Pizza Inc., brokerage Datek Online Holdings Corp. and retailers Staples Inc. and the Sports Authority Inc.,
this disturbing nugget on the 2008 Presidential race: Clearchannel just recently went up for auction. Mitt Romney's Bain Capital bought it along with Thomas H Lee Partners
Ed. Note -- The original story we posted on this topic inferred that Bain Capital had recently purchased Clear Channel Communications. That is not true. The transaction took place in November of 2006. The facts remain that Bain earns a share of Clear Channel's profits and that Mitt Romney, while a retired partner, still earns money from the private equity firm.
What would it cost to buy the support of just about every nationally syndicated neocon talk show host in America? About $19.5 billion, which is what Mitt Romney's private equity firm, Bain Capital, and Thomas H. Lee Partners have agreed to pay in a leveraged buyout agreement with Clear Channel Communications, the largest radio station owner in the country. This is part of a negotiation that has been pending for over a year.
"I'll bet those hosts won't reveal that conflict of interest, but it's worth noting when you hear them begin hyping Romney, which has already begun. A lot of GOP supporters will support whomever they are told to support, so be prepared for a big push for Romney. [sic] Rich men can bankroll their own campaigns (a la John Kerry), but it takes a special breed to use investors' money to buy entire networks that can operate as passive wings of a presidential campaign."
Clear Channel Communications was bought out by a partnership between Bain Capital and Thomas Lee Partners. (Source) Bain Capital manages $67 Billion in assets, Lee Partners has about 10 billion in its investment fund. [sic] Mitt Romney was the founder of Bain and is still a major stockholder in the company.
Romney's Clear Channel Communications is actually doing more than its part to help Democrats maintain their majority in Congress this election cycle. Donating twice as much to Democrats in the House as Republicans. In fact, they donated to many of the Democrats that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck name and shame. (Source)
Full Disclosure $52,094,882
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#14. To: All (#13)
The Romney Economy - New York Magazine, 7 page article Page 1 photo: Mitt Romney and the 1% Economy Page 4 photo: Romney, center, and six other founding members of Bain Capital, in an outtake of their photo shoot for a 1984 brochure that surfaced this month. Short summary of Page 6 + excerpts: "all these uninsured people clog the ER," complained Dr. Slavin. The Staples office-supplies chain founder, Tom Stemberg, then fields the slavish-sounding but elitist-centric grumble to gov-Mitt and -- boddaboom-boddabing -- the poor "clogs" are muscled into a costly "Romneycare fix" to financially support the Medical/Insurance Complex. Stemberg served then (as now) on the president’s council of Massachusetts General Hospital, and he remembered a conversation he’d had with a doctor named Peter Slavin, who has been the chief executive of that hospital system for most of the last decade. “[Slavin] mentioned this huge problem,” Stemberg told me, “which is all these uninsured people clog the ER.” The hospital had to treat them. “There was a law that said that all the insurance companies had to fund the free care. That system made absolutely no sense. “It was, as Stemberg told Romney, “the least efficient way to serve them.” The conversation moved on, and Stemberg figured his ten-minute-long career as a policy maven was over. “I figured that’s the end of that.” But Romney’s staffers, consulting with experts, began to work out a fix, requiring almost every citizen in the state to carry insurance, and providing subsidies for those who couldn’t afford it. Eventually he was heading down to Ted Kennedy’s office in Washington to explain the program, PowerPoints in hand. Three and a half years later, Romney introduced his universal-health-care plan, and in the press he credited Stemberg with suggesting it. Continued on Page 7: But what separates Romney’s plan from Obama’s—and gives some clues about his potential presidency—is its almost-accidental origin. Romney did not begin with a philosophical quest to improve American health care. He began with the idea of himself as a problem solver and asked those around him for a problem that he might usefully solve. I remembered, when I was told this story, an anecdote I’d heard from a former political staffer of Romney’s. On even basic philosophical questions like abortion, the staffer said, Romney did not try to resolve the question in the abstract, as a matter of principle, and would consider instead various hypothetical cases—for instance, a late-term abortion—and build from them a politics. The line that Romney is a flip-flopper may vastly understate the depth of the condition.
When Romney was elected governor of Massachusetts in 2002, one of the members of his transition team was Tom Stemberg, the founder of Staples. The two men were talking one day, and Romney asked Stemberg if he had any ideas for how he ought to govern. Stemberg, thinking off the top of his head, had two ideas. “One was to blow up Logan airport and start over.” That didn’t make it far. The other one did.
The punch line, of course—the punch line to Romney’s campaign so far—is that the plan he built was an almost exact model for Obama’s national plan, designed by some of the same experts.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#15. To: All (#14) (Edited)
Yahoo! News: Romney staff spent nearly $100,000 to hide records By Mark Hosenball | Reuters – Tue, Dec 6, 2011 The move during the final weeks of Romney's administration was legal but unusual for a departing governor, Massachusetts officials say. The effort to purge the records was made a few months before Romney launched an unsuccessful campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He is again competing for the party's nomination, this time to challenge Barack Obama for the presidency in 2012. Five weeks before the first contests in Iowa, Romney has seen his position as frontrunner among Republican presidential candidates whittled away in the polls as rival Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, has gained ground. When Romney left the governorship of Massachusetts, 11 of his aides bought the hard drives of their state-issued computers to keep for themselves. Also before he left office, the governor's staff had emails and other electronic communications by Romney's administration wiped from state servers, state officials say. Those actions erased much of the internal documentation of Romney's four-year tenure as governor, which ended in January 2007. Precisely what information was erased is unclear. Republican and Democratic opponents of Romney say the scrubbing of emails - and a claim by Romney that paper records of his governorship are not subject to public disclosure - hinder efforts to assess his performance as a politician and elected official. As Massachusetts governor, Romney worked with a Democrat-led state house to close a budget shortfall and signed a healthcare overhaul that required nearly all state residents to buy insurance or face penalties. Massachusetts' healthcare law became a model for Obama's nationwide healthcare program, enacted into law in 2010. As a presidential candidate, however, Romney has criticized Obama's plan as an overreach by the federal government. Massachusetts officials say they have no basis to believe that Romney's staff violated any state laws or policies in removing his administration's records. They acknowledge, however, that state law on maintaining and disclosing official records is vague and has not been updated to deal with issues related to digital records and other modern technology. BUYING UP HARD DRIVES Romney's spokesmen emphasize that he followed the law and precedent in deleting the emails, installing new computers in the governor's office and buying up hard drives. However, Theresa Dolan, former director of administration for the governor's office, told Reuters that Romney's efforts to control or wipe out records from his governorship were unprecedented. Dolan said that in her 23 years as an aide to successive governors "no one had ever inquired about, or expressed the desire" to purchase their computer hard drives before Romney's tenure. The cleanup of records by Romney's staff before his term ended included spending $205,000 for a three-year lease on new computers for the governor's office, according to official documents and state officials. In signing the lease, Romney aides broke an earlier three-year lease that provided the same number of computers for about half the cost - $108,000. Lease documents obtained by Reuters under the state's freedom of information law indicate that the broken lease still had 18 months to run. As a result of the change in leases, the cost to the state for computers in the governor's office was an additional $97,000. [sic] State officials and a longtime Romney adviser have acknowledged that before leaving office, Romney asked state archives officials for permission to destroy certain paper records. It is unclear whether his office notified anyone from the state before destroying electronic records. Officials have said the details of Romney's request to remove paper records, such as what specific documents he wanted to destroy, could be made public only in response to a request under the state's freedom of information law. Reuters has filed such a request. (Reporting by Mark Hosenball; editing by David Lindsey and David Storey) Egads, that's alotsa "privatization" expenditures for the Massachusettes taxpayers to closeout a one-term Governorship on account of his copy-catting Clinton and Bush's bad-management examples on "State Secrecy Priviliges" per the whimsy of Executives. Interesting comments at the site. Can America afford such extravagant indulgences for the "WAAAH! Street" types (as the mo'money demanding 1%-ers have been dubbed) who wannabe jockeying for elevation to the office of President here? I think not. Edited for spelling. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney spent nearly $100,000 in state funds to replace computers in his office at the end of his term as governor of Massachusetts in 2007 as part of an unprecedented effort to keep his records secret, Reuters has learned.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#16. To: farmfriend (#12) (Edited)
Thanks muchly for posting that great YouTube and I surely do agree without a smidgeon of a doubt that he is a Globalist. Btw, I cross-referenced your vid postings on The Real Newt Gingrich in this topic about him: Alex Jones [Nightly News video]: Newt World Order! for some additional research notings there eventually that I think are of some relevance. Edited last sentence for grammar and rewording. a great Youtube put out by JBS that shows Newt's record. He is a globalist, no doubt about it.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#17. To: GreyLmist (#16)
I saw that and thanks. The more this is distributed the better. Not that we would find many Newt fans here. I cross-referenced your vid postings
What is a calorie? Calories are the little bastards that get into your wardrobe at night and sew your clothes tighter... MY CLOSET IS INFESTED WITH THE LITTLE SHITS.
#18. To: All (#16)
Mitt Romney - Wikipedia Romney entered the management consulting business, which led to a position at Bain & Company, where he eventually served as CEO and brought the company out of crisis. [My note: an overly polite way to avoid descriptors like ingrate and ruthless takeover-maneuverer] He was also co-founder and head of the spin-off company Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm [that his boss offered to him with financial assistance and no-risk, which] became highly profitable and one of the largest such firms in the nation. The wealth Romney accumulated there would help fund his future political campaigns. Business career Romney was heavily recruited and, after graduation, chose to remain in Massachusetts and go to work for Boston Consulting Group (BCG), thinking that working as a management consultant to a variety of companies would prepare him for a future job as a chief executive.[12][35][38][nb 6] Romney's legal and business education proved useful in this role, and he became a rising star[35] while applying BCG principles such as the growth-share matrix. [40] [My note: Yikes. Red Flagging that.] In 1977, he was hired away by Bain & Company, a management consulting firm in Boston that had been formed a few years earlier by Bill Bain and other former BCG employees.[35][40][41] [sic] With Bain & Company, Romney learned the "Bain way", which consisted of immersing the firm in each client's business,[35][42] and not simply to issue recommendations, [sic] With a record of helping clients such as the Monsanto Company, [et al.,] Romney became a vice president of the firm in 1978 [sic.] Romney became a believer in Bain's methods; [sic] Romney was restless for a company of his own to run, and in 1983 Bill Bain offered him the chance to head a new venture that would buy into companies, have them benefit from Bain techniques, and then reap higher rewards than just consulting fees.[35][40] Romney initially refrained from accepting the offer, and Bain re-arranged the terms in a complicated partnership structure so that there was no financial or professional risk to Romney.[35][42][44] Thus, in 1984, Romney left Bain & Company to co-found the spin-off private equity investment firm, Bain Capital.[43] In the face of skepticism from potential investors, Bain and Romney spent a year raising the $37 million in funds needed to start the new operation, which had fewer than ten employees.[38][42][45][46] As general partner of the new firm, Romney spent little money on costs such as office appearance, and saw weak spots in so many potential deals that by 1986, very few had been done.[35] At first, Bain Capital focused on venture capital opportunities.[35] Their first big success came with a 1986 investment to help start Staples Inc., after founder Thomas G. Stemberg convinced Romney of the market size for office supplies and Romney convinced others; Bain Capital eventually reaped a nearly sevenfold return on its investment, and Romney sat on the Staples board of directors for over a decade.[35][45][46] [My note: Stemberg would later "inspire" him to craft the Gov-coercive "Romneycare", mandating support of the Medical/Insurance Complex by the citizens of his State.] Romney soon switched Bain Capital's focus from startups to the relatively new business of leveraged buyouts: buying existing firms with money mostly borrowed against their assets, partnering with existing management to apply the "Bain way" to their operations [sic], and then selling them off in a few years.[35][42] Existing CEOs were offered large equity stakes in the process, as part of Bain Capital's belief in the emerging agency theory notion that CEOs should be bound to maximizing shareholder value [My note: read maximizing unemployment-lines and whatnot] rather than other goals. [46] [My note: rather than less-greedy goals like people over profits?] Bain Capital lost most of its money in many of its early leveraged buyouts, but then started finding deals that made large returns,[35] [sic.] Romney excelled at presenting and selling the deals the company made.[44] The firm initially gave a cut of its profits to Bain & Company [which had practically gifted the business to him], but Romney later persuaded Bain to give that up.[44] [My note: beaucoup Red Flags in that section] The firm invested in or acquired many well-known companies such as Accuride, Brookstone, Domino's Pizza, Sealy Corporation, Sports Authority, and Artisan Entertainment, as well as lesser-known companies in the industrial and medical sectors.[35][42][48] [sic, He] opted out of the Artisan Entertainment deal, not wanting to profit from a studio that produced R-rated films.[35] [sic] Romney was on the board of directors of Damon Corporation, a medical testing company later found guilty of defrauding the government; Bain Capital tripled its investment before selling off the company, with the fraud being discovered by the new owners (Romney was never implicated).[35] [sic] Bain Capital's leveraged buyouts sometimes led to layoffs, either soon after acquisition or later after the firm had left.[35][40][44][45] Bain Capital officials later said that overall, more jobs were added than lost due to these buyouts, but a lack of available records makes such assertions unverifiable.[49] [47] In any case, maximizing the value of acquired companies and the return to Bain's investors, not job creation, was the firm's fundamental goal, as it was for most private equity operations.[49][45] Regarding job losses, Romney later said, "Sometimes the medicine is a little bitter but it is necessary to save the life of the patient. [My note: meaning Coporate "Personhoods", not their "serfs"] My job was to try and make the enterprise successful, and in my view the best security a family can have [My note: if lucky enough not to find themselves among the discard piles of laid-off castaways] is that the business they work for is strong."[44] Bain Capital's acquisition of Ampad exemplified a deal where it profited handsomely from early payments and management fees, even though the subject company itself ended up going into bankruptcy.[35][46] [49] Dade Behring was another case where Bain Capital received an eightfold return on its investment, but the company itself was saddled with debt and laid off over a thousand employees before Bain Capital exited (the company subsequently went into bankruptcy, with more layoffs, before recovering and prospering).[47] Bain was among the private equity firms that took the most such fees.[42][46] Romney said in retrospect: "It is one thing that if I had a chance to go back I would be more sensitive to. It is always a balance. Great care has got to be taken not to take a dividend or a distribution from a company that puts that company at risk. [Having taken a big payment from a company that later failed] would make me sick, sick at heart."[42] In 1990, Romney was asked to return to Bain & Company, [My note: his benefactor] which was facing financial collapse.[43] He was announced as its new CEO in January 1991[50][51] (but drew only a symbolic salary of one dollar). [43] Romney managed an effort to restructure [My note: read "reduce"?] the firm's employee stock-ownership plan, real-estate deals and bank loans, while rallying the firm's thousand employees, imposing a new governing structure that included [his benefactor] Bain and the other founding partners giving up control, and increasing fiscal transparency.[35][38][43] Within about a year, he had led Bain & Company through a turnaround and returned the firm to profitability without further layoffs or partner defections.[38] [My note: Romney, "The Sharklike"] turned Bain & Company over to new leadership and returned to Bain Capital in December 1992. [35][51][52] Romney left Bain Capital in February 1999 to serve as the President and CEO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games Organizing Committee.[35] By that time, Bain Capital was on its way to being one of the top private equity firms in the nation,[44] having increased its number of partners from 5 to 18, having 115 employees overall, and having $4 billion under its management.[42][45] It had made some 150 deals where it acquired and then sold a company.[47] Bain Capital's approach of applying consulting expertise to the companies it invested in became widely copied within the private equity industry.[15][45] Moreover, Romney had been at the forefront of a modernization wave in American business and the associated emergence of the shareholder value model, which remade American businesses as more productive and efficient but also led to greater income inequality and less stable employment patterns.[46] University of Chicago Booth School of Business economist Steven Kaplan would later say, "[Romney] came up with a model that was very successful and very innovative and that now everybody uses."[46] [My note: Yikes again. Says much about the downward spiral of economic conditions here.] His experience at Bain & Company and Bain Capital gave Romney a business- oriented world view [sic.] As a result of his business career, by 2007 Romney and his wife had a net worth of between $190 and $250 million, most of it held in blind trusts.[53] Although gone, Romney received a passive profit share as a retired partner in some Bain Capital entities.[53] An additional blind trust existed in the name of the Romneys' children and grandchildren that was valued at between $70 and $100 million as of 2007.[54] The couple's net worth remained in the same range as of 2011, and was still held in blind trusts.[55] [My note: Ron Paul 2012]
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#19. To: farmfriend (#17) (Edited)
Backatcha. Yep. And that's quite fine by me. I think it would make an excellent and educational Christmas present for those who aren't his fans to give their kinfolk and associates. Edit to clarfy first sentence of last paragraph. thanks.
The more this is distributed the better.
Not that we would find many Newt fans here
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#20. To: farmfriend, All (#19)
oops. typo correction: clarify. This is a reader-comment on Romney from a recent article at theulstermanreport.com Mao’Bama knows his chances are slim to win again. He also knows his best chance is to run against someone he can villify as the MONSTER of Wall Street. Any of the nine, or so, candidates could probably beat Mao’Bama but ONLY Mitt has a Wall Street bulls eye painted on his back." This is my pick as best comment there on Obama, from a post by Name DOTK: "Born a Brit, NOT legit." Edit to clarfy first sentence of last paragraph.
Marlowe: "The Mao’Bama regime wants Romney. Not because they think he will be easy to defeat but because it will be easy to paint him as the poster boy for Wall Street.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#21. To: All (#20)
This is from a 2006 article called, The Mitt Romney Deception: The 2002 Olympics - run by Mitt Romney - was the only Olympics that restricted the Boy Scouts from participating. According to news reports, this was apparently because of pressure from homosexual activists. (But also, according to reports, homosexual groups participated fairly prominently.) Romney would not respond to reporters' questions about that action. Romney barred Boy Scouts from public participation in 2002 Olympics
The largest Boy Scout council in the country responded to the call for volunteers issued by the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee, but the welcome mat was rolled up and the door slammed in its face. Olympic spokesmen for the 2002 winter games say the exclusion has nothing to do with recent protests by gay activists. While the organizing committee for the Olympic event is prominently displaying a call for local volunteers, they have explicitly let it be known that the Boy Scouts need not apply. "For us not to be involved is discouraging, considering the Atlanta games. The Scouting council there was extremely involved," said Kay Godfrey, professional Scout executive for the Great Salt Lake Council of Boy Scouts.
- NewsMax.com, Dec. 18, 2000
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#22. To: All (#21)
Romney ad becomes parody of itself Uploaded by mattyohe on Oct 14, 2007 Political Ad + Laugh track = Instant Parody
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#23. To: All (#13)
Cross-referencing Post #9 at 4um title: "Alex Jones [Nightly News video]: Newt World Order!" for more on Romney's Clear Channel ties, Gingrich's FOX ties, and those factors indicative of election-rigging against Ron Paul.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#24. To: All (#13)
Preppy protester: The moment a 19-year-old Mitt Romney demonstrated in favour of Vietnam War draft - with pics They were protesting at the introduction of a test designed to help the authorities decide who was eligible for the draft. Mr Romney was one of approximately 150 conservative students who counter- picketed the sit-in. Romney was a Pro- Vietnam War activist but got a student-deferment, then a draft-deferral from the Mormon church to work in France as a Missionary instead of going to the War he supported and hawked for others, "then got another student deferment.[23] [31] When those ran out, his high number in the December 1969 draft lottery (300) meant he would not be selected.[11][23][31][32]" Ref.]
The photograph was taken on May 20, 1966, shortly after a group of students had taken over the office of Stanford University President Wallace Sterling.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
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The Meaning of Mitt - 6 page Vanity Fair article
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#26. To: All (#25)
Mitt Romney: Job Creator? - video
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#27. To: All (#26)
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#28. To: All (#13) (Edited)
Cross-referencing 4um Title, Bain Capital Owns Clear Channel (Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Etc.), for more info on Romney and Clear Channel. Edited to correct link.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
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