RNC 2012: Before Romney’s speech, campaign releases a bevy of Bain videos (see one here)
Hours before Mitt Romney takes the stage to accept the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign released nine new videos on YouTube about his successes in business. Could they represent a preview of the case he’ll make tonight? Here’s one of them, about that staple of shopping malls across the country: Brookstone.
A robust defense of his business career has been a long time coming. Will these help do the trick?
(H/t: Hot Air)
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 31st, 2012
10:12 am
Well, we can put away the toys – the easy bake ovens, the Lite-Brites, and the unicorn dolls and move into the world of adults next week.
I hope you cons enjoyed your week cause it’s gonna be all whining until 2016.
Mary Elizabeth
August 31st, 2012
10:13 am
The following were my follow-up remarks to my comments, above, which I posted on Jay Bookman’s blog at 9:27 am today:
“I want to express my ‘thank you’ to all of those who have appreciated my analysis of Romney’s speech (and thinking) around 3:00 am. Romney seems like a good family man to me who has loved his wife, children, and mother and father. However, as I have mentioned before on this blog, I do not think that he has Obama’s vision of the type of leadership that Obama wants America to foster in this world.
(For those who may want to read further on this – I think Obama’s leadership style is more in keeping with the values that George Washington, the father of our nation, tried to emulate for leaders of our nation to assume into posterity. I hope that some readers will explore these thoughts, which I developed in my own blog, ‘Mary Elizabeth Sings,’ December 26, 2010. See below for an excerpt from and link to that entry on my blog:
‘Are we wise enough to know that America’s first president, George Washington, by his example of deliberately relinquishing power, was modeling for posterity the role he desired for America’s leaders to emulate in the future? Will America acknowledge that all in the world are inherently equal? Will America and Americans lead others in seizing this budding egalitarian world consciousness through the choices we make? If America can lead others into the coming new age, in this new direction, then she, like her first president, will become a great leader through her grace of spirit and wisdom, rather than simply through her power.’) ”
http://maryelizabethsings.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/a-new-year-a-budding-world-consciousness/
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
August 31st, 2012
10:15 am
Mary Elizabeth
August 31st, 2012
10:08 am
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Four years of 8-10% unemployment.
$1.5 trillion deficits every year.
Record numbers on the dole.
Fewer jobs today than at the beginning of the Obozo regime.
Lost our AAA credit rating.
$800 billion wasted on non-stimulus and union payoffs.
$50 billion owed by GM to taxpayers.
Fail.
Lynnie Gal
August 31st, 2012
10:16 am
Republicans have made a cynical calculation. They believe they can keep repeating lies (despite fact checkers that call them out) and convince the ignorant, low information voter they’re telling the truth. Their entire convention was wrapped around lies and distortions–from taking the president’s comments out of context, to outright lying about Obama “raiding Medicare” and “taking work out of welfare.” They have to lie. Nobody’s buying their ideas otherwise. If they told the truth about how their policies will affect the middle class voter, they know they will lose. They even came out and said there will be no fact checking of what will be said at the convention. Now, let me repeat–Romney–release your tax records!
md
August 31st, 2012
10:18 am
“Again, that’s not to say leveraged buyout deals don’t work for investors. They frequently do. But such deals are designed for the benefit of the investor – not for the takeover target.”
Complain, complain, complain…….and those investors are? Yep, teachers unions, retirment plans, police unions, firefighters unions, etc……basically our FUTURE income.
What is it with you people that don’t understand that we WANT corps to make huge profits…..we NEED corps to make huge profits. It is those profits that allow for jobs, income, gov’t, taxes, etc etc
md
August 31st, 2012
10:19 am
“Somebody said here — “Mitt Romney saved Clear Channel?” Once Bain Capital took over, THOUSANDS jobs were lost, with downsizing coming EVERY year where some markets are with skeleton staffs. What a Bleepin’ lie. Every year, a new round of people are let go, with the next round of layoffs coming after the election. Mr. Romney is a job destroyer.”
Vs the alternative…….100% lose their jobs the next day without capital……..yep, that makes sense to some of you.
md
August 31st, 2012
10:22 am
Lynnie……out of context? Post the whole paragraph and we’ll take it as a whole if you wish. The entirety is actually wosrse than the one line……….
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
August 31st, 2012
10:24 am
“Somebody, anybody, please just take care of me. I need a Daddy.”
–Rallying cry of the Democrat voter
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 31st, 2012
10:29 am
md, if you would read the article you might be able to talk about what leveraged buyout actually is. Instead, you just keep repeating your clueless-ness.
Streetracer
August 31st, 2012
10:30 am
Lynnie:
Fact Checkers don’t always do a very good job of finding “facts”. For example, what Ryan said about the Janesville GM plant is actually true. Google is your friend; look stuff up for yourself.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 31st, 2012
10:31 am
Lil Barry thinks all Democratic voters are welfare recipients? And all welfare recipients are recipients by choice?
Smacks of racism.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 31st, 2012
10:32 am
the GM plant ANNOUNCED it was ending production in June 2008. Don’t you folks get it?
md
August 31st, 2012
10:37 am
“md, if you would read the article you might be able to talk about what leveraged buyout actually is. Instead, you just keep repeating your clueless-ness.”
I’m well aware what it is……and as I said, there is a place within our system where that type investment/risk is needed…….or are you one that thinks we can all retire on SS?
Verbal Kint
August 31st, 2012
10:39 am
Finn – Even CNN said Ryan’s statement about the plant was correct after initially calling it false. They, like many others in the mainstream media, took the Obama campaigns directive and ran with it before checking on what he said and the facts.
Sallie
August 31st, 2012
10:40 am
The businessman can’t manage a foreign trip or a convention. He’s toast.
md
August 31st, 2012
10:41 am
“the GM plant ANNOUNCED it was ending production in June 2008. Don’t you folks get it?”
Hmmm….must explain part 2:
“In October of the same year, when Mr. Obama paid another visit, he promised that “As president, I will lead an effort to retool plants like the GM facility in Janesville so we can build the fuel-efficient cars of tomorrow and create good-paying jobs in Wisconsin and all across America.”"
md
August 31st, 2012
10:44 am
And for the record Finn…..his first quote stated that “if” they had the capital the plant could stay open for another hundred years. Well, Obama GAVE them the capital……..and the response is “but it was already closed”?
So? They got the capital, re-open the dang thing if you want it to be there for another 100 years………….
lefty_316
August 31st, 2012
10:44 am
Okay back to the platform…..the republican platform supports the creation of a federal personhood law, which would outlaw all abortions and many forms contraception. It also opposes using public revenues to fund organizations that perform abortions………in other words Planned Parenthood. (It would also outlaw pregnancies resulting from rape, of which there are 32,000 annually.)
What the platform does not address is the fact that 40% of couples or single women that get pregnant are on Medicaid. They do not address this because they are not fiscal conservatives, they are religous conservatives. One can not be both.
A good example of this religious driven nonsense can be found in Mike Huckabee. When he was the governor of Arkansas a 15 year old retarded girl became pregnant as a result of being raped by her step-father. Alas abortion in not consisistent with Huckabees silly religious beliefs (the Bible is word-for-word true) and he used his position as governor to try an insure the retarded teen did have the child, and add yet another burden to already over-burdened taxpayers. Fortunately the courts applied reason and logic to the question instead of fundamentalist religious retardism and the pregnancy was terminated. (Huckabee is a former Southern Baptist minister, a former member of the ecclesiastical establishment.)
“Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.” James Madison, 1774.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
August 31st, 2012
10:45 am
Mary Elizabeth, you really shouldn’t be writing things at 3:00 in the morning. Your thought processes are not very good on a more normal time, but they are REALLY out of whack at 3:00 am.
“I must point out much duplicity, and some arrogance, within Romney’s speech. See below:
(1) Romney: “This is when our nation was supposed to start paying down the national debt and rolling back those massive deficits.”
(A 14 Trillion Dollar Debt as of July, 2011, with only 1 and 1/2 Trillion because of Obama’s policies – according to Bruce Bartlett, Dep. Secy. of Treasury, under President George H.W. Bush)”
You want duplicitous, Mary Elizabeth? EVERY dollar spent under Obama, regardless of whether it was a result of “his policies”, is a dollar he’s responsible for. You see, he can’t say (nor can that idiot Bartlett) “Sorry, those dollars I didn’t cut aren’t on my watch”.
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“(2) Romney: “And I don’t doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong’s spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.”
(Double Meaning Intended. Romney misses entirely the arrogance – and irony – of his statement, framed around the word, “humility.” I don’t think Americans are the only people in this world who can do something “really big.” That is simply arrogance.”
No, Mary Elizabeth, that is a REALITY. And it’s only a birther remark if you are looking for troll chow this morning. The problem isn’t that Americans think we are exceptional, Mary Elizabeth; it’s that not ENOUGH Americans believe it. (Like you)
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“(3) Romney: “He took office without the basic qualification that most Americans have and one that was essential to his task. He had almost no experience working in a business. Jobs to him are about government.”
(That statement shows blatantly Romney’s hierarchial view of human beings. Romney implies that “government jobs” are less valuable than “business jobs.” I do not perceive that service-oriented jobs, such as teaching, have less value than jobs in business.)”
Sorry, Mary Elizabeth, but if you’re hired to create jobs and get an economy moving, the basic qualifications are that you should have been successful creating jobs and know what runs an economy. Obama was, and remains, clueless about both. And as usual, you read far more into the comment that Romney intended, just because you want to be offended no matter what he says.
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“(4) Romney: “President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. MY promise…is to help you and your family.”
(Romney mocks science, climate change, and conservation of the Earth’s natural resources.”
Actually, no, he doesn’t. Despite the MSNBC talking points of Chris Matthews, Romney is deriding the majesty of how Obama perceives himself. Romney points out, rightly, that Obama is so obsessed with his own image of world savior, that he forgot to focus on the important things – like leading this nation and fixing the problems at home first.
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“(5) Romney: “And does the America we want succumb to resentment and division? We know the answer.”
(Yes, we do know the answer. As Sen.Mitch McConnell said years ago, “Our (Republican) goal is to make sure that Barack Obama is a one-term president.”)”
And yet, for some reason, Mitt Romney isn’t Mitch McConnell. Go figure.
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“(6) Romney: “And let me make this very clear – unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class.” “Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before. Nearly one out of six Americans is living in poverty. Look around you. These are not strangers. These are our brothers and sisters, our fellow Americans.”
(Totally duplicitous. Republicans have not attempted to create programs to help those in poverty, and their policies have hurt the middle class. Anyone who seriously believes Romney is looking out for the interests of the middle class, or for the poor, is fooling him or herself.”
A rising tide lifts all boats, Mary Elizabeth. Romney doesn’t believe in creating new programs that will fail like all the old programs created to help people out of poverty. The ONLY thing that gets people out of poverty are jobs, Mary Elizabeth. Something Mitt Romney knows how to create, and Obama does not.
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“(7) Romney: “The President has disappointed America because he hasn’t led America in the right direction.”
President Obama has led this nation out of a near Depression;”
Not really. It was heading that way before he took office.
“he has achieved a health care program for all;”
Not even close to all”
“he is not trying to dismantle Medicare and Social Security,”
Please provide the specific plans that Romney has proposed that do this.
“and he is creating a more egalitarian nation and world.”
He’s the President of the United States, NOT the world. maybe if he’d focus on that a bit more, he might have a better chance of re-election.
“I would say that President Obama is leading America in exactly the right direction, which Gov. Romney has little sensitivity toward, or understanding of.”
I was unaware that plunging off a cliff is the right direction. But you keep thinking that way, Mary Elizabeth.
Sallie
August 31st, 2012
10:48 am
tiberius be a big ole blog hawg.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
August 31st, 2012
10:49 am
“If they told the truth about how their policies will affect the middle class voter, they know they will lose.”
I was unaware that improving the economy and creating 12 million jobs would not affect the middle class voter, Lynnie Gal. Silly me!
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
August 31st, 2012
10:49 am
Finn McCool: Smacks of racism.
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Well, since you equated welfare dependency with race, looks like the racism is yours.
Streetracer
August 31st, 2012
10:51 am
Finn McCool:
GM announced the shutdown of the Janesville plant in June 2008. But wasn’t actually shutdown until a year later. However, Obama made his speech at the plant in Feburary ‘08. Oh, and the Goverment (owns 26% of GM stock)could have pushed to reopen that plant instead of Orion MI plant in ‘10.
fair and balanced
August 31st, 2012
10:53 am
What was not mentioned at this GOP PR stunt in Tampa:
1. Romneys’ offshore accounts and possible tax evasion;
2. Romney care
3.Unfunded Medicare Part D passed by the GOP and costing possibly over a trillion dollars in ten years
4. Medicare Advantage giving huge Medicare dollars to private insurers and free gym memberships passed by the GOPand Ryan under Bush and cut back by Obama;
5.Bain Capital lunder Romney shipping jobs overseas starting in the mid nineties and continuing right now in Freeport Illinois where they just closed a plant
6. Tax credits for companies that relocate overseas;
7.GOP fillibustering two bills to eliminate that relocation tax credit and credits for companies bringing jobs back;
8. the 38 anti-abortion bills passed by Aiken and Ryan;
9. GOP swearing allegiance to Grover Norquist instead of the Constitution;
10. That 716 billion dollars Obama allegedly stole from Medicare being cost savings agreed by providers which the Affordable Care Act funnels pack into new Medicare benefits and covering unfunded Medicare part D
11. The ongoing mess Bush got us into in Afghanistan and thousands of soldiers who were killed and maimed due to GOP blunders;
12. Condi and Bush forcing Israel to turn over Gaza to Hamas and kick Israelis out of their homes
13. Obama going to Sderot and putting himself in harm’s way of Hamas missles in 2008 while Romney only went to raise cash at a fundraiser in Jerusalem and some photo ops;
14. Our banking industry and auto industry being rescued by Obama;
15. Worst terrorist attack on civilians ever under Bush due to incompetence and none under Obama and
16. socialist medical care in hospitals passed by Reagan being funded by individual mandates under Obama.
Yes lets have some speechst on these topics The lies, half truths and self adulation were nauseating for the above ommisions. And no mention of the troops dying every day for all of us. Go to Sderot, Afghanistan and Dover Air base Mr. Romney like Obama did and we will see if you can handle being president.Oh I forgot Romney men do not put themselves in harms way.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
August 31st, 2012
10:55 am
Obozo’s liberal fascism: Ideas so good, they have to be mandatory!
md
August 31st, 2012
10:55 am
Good for you Tiberius for taking the time to respond to Mary…….I have given up the ghost on her, her stable seems to be full of too many unicorns vs actual horses that can pull the economy……..the world needs people that can pat kids on the back and tell them how wonderful they are, but giving trophies to everybody also comes at a cost………….
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
August 31st, 2012
10:58 am
“And no mention of the troops dying every day for all of us.”
You know, “fair and balanced” (
on THAT moniker), maybe if you LISTENED to the actual speeches during the convention, you wouldn’t post such a stupid and inaccurate remark such as this.
The other nonsense above? Some of us are looking at the future, not at the mistakes of the past.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
August 31st, 2012
10:59 am
Thanks, md. Her stuff is just so much fairy dust and fluff. She doesn’t live in the real world.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 31st, 2012
11:21 am
Her stuff is fairly dust?
“unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class.”
The middle class has seen nothing but tax breaks from Obama – that’s what a big chunk of the stimulus was.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 31st, 2012
11:22 am
yeah, md.
“plants like….”
Not THIS plant. He didn’t make a promise to that plant or its employees.
Verbal Kint
August 31st, 2012
11:23 am
Fair and Balanced – your mom called and is on her way to pick you up.
Flying High Again
August 31st, 2012
11:39 am
Mary
While not agreeing with all of your points, you do have them crying you do.
Keep it up
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
August 31st, 2012
11:39 am
“The middle class has seen nothing but tax breaks from Obama ”
Of course, since Chief Justice John Roberts rules Obamacare’s mandate is a tax, Finn, Obama HAS raised taxes on the middle class – and everybody else who doesn’t have health insurance.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 31st, 2012
11:40 am
So abstinence is back as the go-to GOP mantra on sex education?
Shrub 2.0
You want fewer people on welfare, you want fewer abortions…….can you maybe want to get a frikkin clue?
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
August 31st, 2012
11:40 am
Remember, md, in Finn’s world, it all depends on what your meaning is “is” is.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 31st, 2012
11:45 am
Obamacare’s mandate is a tax, Finn, Obama HAS raised taxes on the middle class
Show me middle class people who have been affected by this tax? Or do you mean, Obama WILL raise taxes? You know the difference between past tense and future tense, buddy?
Steven
August 31st, 2012
11:50 am
August 30th, 2012
9:12 pm
President Romney used private money to finance turnarounds of various businesses. Private risk, private gains or losses.
Obozo used taxpayer money to finance the GM bailout, $50 billion of which is still owed to taxpayers, who had no voice in how their money was used and whether or not they were being obligated to take on his risky fascist scheme.
Romney: Superior to Obozo.
@Whoever hates the POTUS,
you all may think that the POTUS has not done anything for the economy, well guess what, you’re going to have to put up with your disgust for 4 MORE YEARS! MAN…..I LOVE THIS COUNTRY! OBAMA 2012!
Further more, Mr Romney touts his business expertise at Bain as cause to elect hime President but he gets mad at you for asking for proof that he was that good. Come on now folks, if Mr Romney was a Democrat (And he really is), you all would be screaming ‘SHOW ME PROOF IN YOUR TAXES THAT YOU LEFT BAIN WHEN YOU SAY YOU DID!
That’s why there is nothing you can say to me to make me vote for him!
Flying High Again
August 31st, 2012
11:50 am
Finn
At this moment in time he can’t show that, but it fit the narrative much better to say it was already in place.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
August 31st, 2012
11:51 am
Yeah, Finn, don’t blame the guy for raising your taxes if they haven’t started being collected, right? I know, he’s suddenly going to stop the individual mandate from being enforced after defending it so vigorously in court, right? Maybe since he’s been so efficient in picking and choosing what laws he will enforce, this is going to be one of them?
Really, Finn? This is going to be your defense of Obama’s record on taxes?
Logic isn’t your strong suit, is it?
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
August 31st, 2012
11:52 am
“That’s why there is nothing you can say to me to make me vote for him!”
Then why are you wasting your time lying about Romney over here, Steven?
Tealiban Party
August 31st, 2012
11:53 am
No mention of Iraq and Afghanistan, but lots of Iran and Cuba warmongering by Romney…..
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
August 31st, 2012
12:04 pm
Yeah, Tealiban, ’cause calling for freedom and liberty in oppressive regimes is just so much warmongering.
Flying High Again
August 31st, 2012
12:24 pm
Did he call for freedom and liberty in Saudi Arabia?
One of the most repressive regimes in the world and no president or nominee will call them out.
Guess that “freedom” and “liberty” takes a backseat if that repression suits our foreign policy.
just saying the facts
Flying High Again
August 31st, 2012
12:26 pm
Or Jordon, the UAE, Oman………
You know all those place were freedom and liberty are just flourishing
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
August 31st, 2012
12:29 pm
There is nothing you can say to me to make me vote for [President Romney]!
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I also understand there are people who like to cut themselves.
They need help, too.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
August 31st, 2012
12:33 pm
Ahhhh, the “He didn’t mention each and every country you disagree with, so therefore he has a double standard” argument.
Try again, Flying High, because this attempt was an epic fail.
Flying High Again
August 31st, 2012
12:39 pm
Tiberius
You are an epic fail. With that same weak topic point as usual; epic fail, epic fail. Next you will be shaking your pom poms cheering I won, I won.
You are so blinded with ignorance you didn’t see or acknowledge that I mentioned any president or nominee.
That would include Obama as well.
But carry on with your typical blather. You would have cheered last night if a turd was on stage posing as a Republican
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
August 31st, 2012
12:42 pm
Flying High, if you want to make an argument, THINK before doing so.
If you want to debate, debate.
If you get caught in a false argument, man up and admit your mistake.
And just why is it that you feel the need to change your blog name almost on a daily basis?
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
August 31st, 2012
12:43 pm
Don’t tell me they are going on with the Dem circus in Charlotte, after all that whining about the po folk in NOLA. Their homes have been wrecked and they are wading in an out of their neighborhoods, but the Dims are going to be celebrating in Charlotte. Do they not care about poor black, er white folks who have lost everything. How insensitive are they? Have they no heart?
Now is the time to do something, where is Obama? Why has he not visited the area and waded with them or shown them how he walks on water. Shame on him, shame on him! Surely they can cancel a day allowing Barry time to fly over and wave. Come on Barry, give those people some encouragement and help.
Flying High Again
August 31st, 2012
12:49 pm
Tiberius
You are nothing close to a man, so you do not want me to man up. I promise.
I was merely pointing out the hypocrisy of the United States on freedom and liberty. I including ANY President and nominee. And I stand by that because it is 100% FACT.
You taking it personally just proves that you are a pansy and internet tough guy and blow hard. Couldn’t fight your way out of bed
That is all