Poll: What Do You Think of Romney?
The former Massachusetts governor won Iowa, New Hampshire.
Oh, the weary road of the front-runner.
Mitt Romney, who has won both Iowa and New Hampshire in the race to the August nomination, said he’s suffering “envy-oriented attacks” from his rivals following his early winning streak.
Romney won 40 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primaries, followed by Rep. Ron Paul and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, with 23 and 17 percent respectively, according to CBS News.
Various news outlets are reporting that Romney’s opponents are focusing on his experience at Bain Capital. In South Carolina Tuesday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry compared the private equity firm to “vultures.”
He told a retiree community in South Carolina that business deals undertaken at Romney’s firm have resulted in job losses, according to the Huffington Post.
The Washington Post is reporting that Romney says these attacks actually highlight his business experience in a time the economy needs help.
Baltimore County Republican Central Committee Chairman Steve Kolbe is among those locally supporting Romney. Kolbe was in New Hampshire last week for business and said he found Romney supporters wherever he went.
The central committee is not endorsing candidates at this time, but Kolbe said it is united behind unseating the current Democratic leadership.
Don Wv
6:11 pm on Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Romney will never get Ron Paul supporters! So if Romney cannot get Paul's support, Obama wins!
SymphonyX
7:22 pm on Wednesday, January 11, 2012
I mean come on, he recently came out and said and I quote, "I enjoy firing people after their services." Wow, this is the man you want running your country? Someone who doesn't even give a crap about the middle class. How can you be proud of putting someone through such undeserved hardships? This is cruel, and it shows, that he is going to do nothing to help America and continue to let big businesses take over this country because our politicians only care about their own greedy asses.
Philip Fryer
7:53 am on Thursday, January 12, 2012
It was inevitable that the 1% would find their perfect candidate after the Roberts' Supreme Court decision in 2008 (Citizens United ruling regarding unlimited corporate spending for candidates' elections) and Romney is surely that. That the 99% could be hoodwinked only shows Romney's arrogance and greed. Bring it on.
Ron Wise
10:00 am on Thursday, January 12, 2012
I wouldn't buy a used car from Romney...not even if he wore a cowboy hat. Republicans, in general, have behaved reprehensibly. It's time middle class Americans gained power over Big Business. We see where Bush's "Trickle-Down" theory got us!
MikeC
3:21 pm on Friday, January 13, 2012
Not quite Fascist Italy. First off, Italy is in Europe (country shaped like a boot). Second, Fascism has a distinctive bellitgerent nationalistic aspect to it with the country launching into wars to drum up the nationalistic spirit in order to keep the public's attention focused on a "strong nation" and off their declining quality of life.
Ron is correct in that he calls for a strengthened middle-class. The U.S. middle class has shrunk from more than half of the general public to around 40% and the sector of Americans living in poverty and the poor has risen. It was Pres. Ronald Reagan who introduced the failed "Trickle-Down Economics" to our government and crushed workers' rights. Indeed, the decline of middle-class America has been shown to have its beginnings in the early 1980's.
MikeC
3:09 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012
@ SymphonyX - He gave a crap about the middle-class when it was politically expedient for him to do so - Gov. Romney.
The guy is such a charlatan. Or is it a chameleon? Who really knows? I don't even think Romney himself knows what he is or what policies he'll enact. Already he's said "Everyone who graduates from college will have a job." something impossible for him to deliver. Under Romney "We'll have the most powerful military in the world. So powerful that no one would dare attack us.", well we kinda have that right now, and have had it for decades. I'd also like to see in which areas he thinks we're deficient and what his plans are for the military. He'll "balance the budget", by letting the Bush Tax Cuts expire? How will he do this? His tax plan already released to the public shows much more tax cuts (lost revenues) on upper-middle income and the highest wage earners, meanwhile our infrastructure is collapsing, we're in the worst recession we've been in in 80 years, banks are stingy loaning money and businesses are sitting on the largest cash reserves they've ever had unwilling to invest in products consumers won't buy because their wages have continued to decrease since the '80's. Honestly, everything he's said, he's said it thinking that he can hoodwink the public into thinking he'll get elected and not follow through on promises. He's the first person running for president in decades who has refused to release his income tax information.
That's what I think.
John
9:17 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012
Hey David:
I have always received health insurance as a benefit of employment (when I have had health insurance). I have never been able to fire my health insurance provider.
Romney fails to understand - as did Obama - we do not have a health insurance problem in this country - we have a healthcare delivery problem. Insurance has nothing to do with healthcare - it is simply an industry that has inserted itself into healthcare for purposes of profit.
MTH
6:18 pm on Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Seriously, Obama has been a complete and utter failure.
Sara is right....A debt crisis that has us hurtling towards a Greek-style collapse, entitlement programs going bankrupt, a credit downgrade for the first time in our history, a government takeover of the health care industry that makes care more expensive and puts a rationing panel of faceless bureaucrats between you and your doctor (aka a “death panel”), $4 and $5 gas at the pump exacerbated by an anti-drilling agenda that rejects good paying energy sector jobs and makes us more dependent on dangerous foreign regimes, a war in Afghanistan that seems unfocused and unending, a global presidential apology tour that’s made us look feeble and ridiculous, a housing market in the tank, the longest streak of high unemployment since World War II, private-sector job creators and industry strangled by burdensome regulations and an out-of-control Obama EPA, an attack on the Constitutional protection of religious liberty, an attack on private industry in right-to-work states, crony capitalism run amok in an administration in bed with their favored cronies to the detriment of genuine free market capitalism, green energy pay-to-play kickbacks to Obama campaign donors, and a Justice Department still stonewalling on a bungled operation that armed violent Mexican drug lords and led to the deaths of hundreds of innocent people.