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12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Romney’s "Electabili... · 0 replies · +2 points

Oh, um, I thought we were told that the Bain attacks were "ineffective".

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Romney Making Inroads ... · 1 reply · +3 points

Oh, hey, nice try spinning Governor Haley's endorsement as an "inroad with the Tea Party," as if the Tea Party were a real party or something. The only problem is that the highly unpopular President Obama out-polls the Governor of South Carolina in her own state. Governor Haley is currently at 34.6% approval, with 43% disapproving of her performance: http://www.winthrop.edu/winthroppoll/default.aspx.... She's probably the only GOP office-holder in the South who could stand to benefit by association with an electoral non-performer like Romney.

The Tea Partiers have come to regret many of their choices. Governor Haley would be one of them. Like Governor Christie, another Romney surrogate, Governor Haley has become one of the conservative-circuit celebrities who play well nationally in blogs, talk radio, and youtube, but play far less well among the voters of their own states.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - The Political Chess Ma... · 0 replies · 0 points

And Peter Wehner is a paid consultant for the super-geniuses of Team Romney. I can see why he wouldn't want anyone to know that. I sure wouldn't. Still, it would be helpful if he were more up front about his bias.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Romney Pulls into Lead... · 0 replies · +1 points

Your headline is misleading. Willard Mitt Romney's flat-line numbers have not moved; he didn't "pull" into the lead of anything. He's where he always is at between about 17 and 25%. Gingrich, however, declined as his former supporters moved to the undecided column. Note how they did not move into Romney's column.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Will Gingrich Disown H... · 0 replies · 0 points

" Plus, it is silly to say private equity funds are "central planning" because central planning means by the government

No, central planning means central planning. Central planning by a government or government agency would be central planning by a government. See how that works? And private equity by no means reduces to simple proprietary relations as you seem to want to assume.

Private equity falls under the general rubric of what (the now late) Peter Drucker calls "post-capitalism," as discussed in his book Post-Capitalist Society. Drucker, in his discussion of capitalism passing into its opposite of central management by means of massive equity pools like pension funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, or other forms, even predicts the "too big to fail" doctrine though he seems neutral on the issue. He calls for so-called public "business audits" of institutions deemed to big to fail.

Romney is the epitome of the post-capitalist organization of the U.S. financial services sector. In every respect he represents its goals, its norms, and its values.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Is Romney the Hillary ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Democrats would relish the idea of running against Gingrich instead of Romney in 2012. And that’s the point Romney will need to drive home if he wants to avoid following in Hillary’s footsteps.

Yes, and this yet another tedious variation of the "electability" argument. What else do you have because this is ridiculously unpersuasive.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Will Gingrich Disown H... · 3 replies · -1 points

No kidding!?

Is there anyone who writes for this blog who isn't on Romney's payroll!?

Apparently the center-right commentariat is for sale.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Prudence, the Chariote... · 0 replies · +1 points

The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin

I stopped reading right here. I used to follow Rubin avidly when she contributed to this blog. Now she's become the most shameless of the shameless Romney shills, tedious, and predicable.

Hey, do you know what's really imprudent? RomneyCare, with all its new rules, new taxes, its exchanges, and its mandates, all organized around the assumption of state supervision of private economic activity to support progressive goals. It is functionally identical to ObamaCare only Obama was never able to deliver a public option as Romney was able to do through federal subsidies.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Right-Wing Talkers Tur... · 0 replies · +1 points

I do find it interesting that Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and Ann Coulter are all dead set against Gingrich.

Correction. These intellectual giants of our time are against any frontrunner who is not Willard Mitt Romney. When it wasn't Gingrich it was Perry. Before that, Bachmann. Discredit the conservatives and we're left with the progressive, Romney.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Will Gingrich Disown H... · 7 replies · -2 points

This is a ludicrous caricature of Romney’s work at Bain Capital

No, it really isn't: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/us/politics/aft...

The operations of equity funds are the point where "capitalism" passes into its opposite. It is central planning by other means.

I only hope that Gingrich isn't the only voice that calls for Romney to account for his decisions at Bain Capital where he enriched himself at the expense of U.S. working families by shipping U.S. manufacturing capacity overseas in exchange for retail operations like Staples or Dominos here at home.

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