Des Moines Register Endorses Romney

[xBiffx]

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/ar...resh-economic-vision?Frontpage&nclick_check=1

This may not matter much to most, especially in here but out in flyover territory and in the cornfields, its a BFD. I had to read it twice to make sure it wasn't an Onion piece.

 

[LegendKiller]

Wow, surprise, fools who probably have less of an idea of what an LBO firm does than most Americans support a guy who has jack shit for an economic policy and the only base for his policy is "Hey, let's keep doing the same shit we've done for 30 years and it'll work this time!"

So fucking stupid. Trickle-down economics does *NOT* work. If it did we'd not be where we are now.

 

[PokerGuy]

Wow, surprise, fools who probably have less of an idea of what an LBO firm does than most Americans

Typical idiot elitist. People don't have to understand what an LBO firm does to prefer one candidate or the other. The fact that you think they do speaks volumes about your own hubris and stupidity. Ironing abounds.

 

[IronWing]

Typical idiot elitist. People don't have to understand what an LBO firm does to prefer one candidate or the other. The fact that you think they do speaks volumes about your own hubris and stupidity. Ironing abounds.

It would help folks make informed decisions if they did understand the business which made Romney a very wealthy man. When we discuss "sending jobs to China" folks need to understand that Mitt Romney is one of the folks who made this happen. He made the decision to fire American workers and replace them with Chinese workers. Yes, Romney personally did this and made his money doing so. It would help folks to understand how Romney used lax pension laws (laws made lax by politicians to whom Romney gave money) to loot pension plans and enrich himself in doing so. Romney took viable companies and slaughtered them for personal gain, leaving others to clean up the mess and pay the costs. Romney is a modern day robber baron, a parasite.

 

[Jhhnn]

Typical idiot elitist. People don't have to understand what an LBO firm does to prefer one candidate or the other. The fact that you think they do speaks volumes about your own hubris and stupidity. Ironing abounds.

Of course not, but that doesn't mean they're not being suckered by a professional plying his usual craft in a bigger arena. He made his fortune telling different stories to different people, leveraging his own profit out of thin air, leaving enormous debt in his wake, debt owed by other people.

That's Mitt, whose 5 point plan is the same as McCain's 5 point plan which is the same as GWB's 5 point plan of 2004, which got us into this mess in the first place.

But nevermind that, because Mitt will inspire Confidence!

As if that's all we'll need...

 

[her209]

Romney succeeded as governor in Massachusetts where he faced Democratic majorities in the legislature.

Having his 844 vetoes overridden over 700 times equals succeeding as governor and working across the aisle?

 

[CADsortaGUY]

When I read the news about this I was pretty sure there was a typo, but amazingly the leftist DSMRegister actually did endorse Romeny. Now I'm sure that their editorial contributors like Basu(freak fringe raging feminist....) have gone apeshit but it is quite amazing that the board pulled their head out of their ass for once.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

first (R) endorsement in 40 years by the Register. I was reading the comments on the article and it's hilarious how "mad" the leftists are. They can't believe their own leftist paper has abandoned them. Silly "progressives" the newpaper woke up from their trance and realized your unicorns, rainbows, and cotton candy are garbage.

 

[Throckmorton]

...realized your unicorns, rainbows, and cotton candy are garbage.

Isn't that Reaganomics is? Or is it called Romneynomics now?

Or do you believe a plan to reduce everyone's tax rates by 20%, make up for all of that by removing deductions only for rich people, but not enough to raise their tax burden above what it is now, is something other than unicorns?

 

[Charles Kozierok]

Their primary justification for this endorsement: "Which candidate could forge the compromises in Congress to achieve these goals? When the question is framed in those terms, Mitt Romney emerges the stronger candidate."

In other words: Republicans refused to work with Obama for four years. And since they refuse to compromise with him, we should put in Romney instead.

Who says crime doesn't pay?

 

[LegendKiller]

Typical idiot elitist. People don't have to understand what an LBO firm does to prefer one candidate or the other. The fact that you think they do speaks volumes about your own hubris and stupidity. Ironing abounds.

I don't think you can truly understand them until you see one in action. I have. Have you ever financed one outside of buying LBO debt (which I doubt you've done). I have. I saw them get decimated so they could make the interest payments.

I doubt any line workers at the company I worked with are voting Romney.

I think the truly elitist viewpoint is that somebody who makes a habit out of arbing the tax system through massive debt (pre-tax write off effectively) and carried interest while avoiding tax (offshore accounts), truly thinks they should be able to bullshit the entire country into what they actually do. Moreso, it is worse that suckers like you buy into it.

This guy knows fuck all about actually running companies, which is the *only* base he has.

It's just like all of the morons running around saying "MORE TRICKLE DOWN!" when they *know* that trickle down hasn't worked in the 30 years. David Stockman says it's a crock of shit and the GOP has ruined our economy. The guy who pushed trickledown in the Reagan admin, the father of it, says it is bullshit.

Think about that. How much more elitist can you and your ilk get. You think you know better for the entire country when you have been proven wrong for THIRTY YEARS.

 

[Lanyap]

Having his 844 vetoes overridden over 700 times equals succeeding as governor and working across the aisle?

They were budget line item vetoes that Romney used to try and reduce the budget deficit. The dems were wanting to spend more money that they didn't have.

 

[Doppel]

Doesn't matter anymore. The election is over. Romney is just going through the motions now, his campaign a dead man walking, resigned to its fate.

 

[monovillage]

Their primary justification for this endorsement: "Which candidate could forge the compromises in Congress to achieve these goals? When the question is framed in those terms, Mitt Romney emerges the stronger candidate."

In other words: Republicans refused to work with Obama for four years. And since they refuse to compromise with him, we should put in Romney instead.

Who says crime doesn't pay?

I hardly think that Congressional/Senate Republicans not supporting bad laws or real bad choices constitutes a "crime".

 

[Charles Kozierok]

It's an expression.

 

[her209]

They were budget line item vetoes that Romney used to try and reduce the budget deficit. The dems were wanting to spend more money that they didn't have.

How does being overridden over 700 times equate to succeeding and working with the Democrats?

 

[Lanyap]

How does being overridden over 700 times equate to succeeding and working with the Democrats?

It looks more like the dems did not want to work with him to reduce the budget deficit.

 

[Rainsford]

When I read the news about this I was pretty sure there was a typo, but amazingly the leftist DSMRegister actually did endorse Romeny. Now I'm sure that their editorial contributors like Basu(freak fringe raging feminist....) have gone apeshit but it is quite amazing that the board pulled their head out of their ass for once.

It is a little surprising considering Iowa is land of the subsidies (ethanol, I'm looking at you). But what's more interesting is how Romney supporters read this as a wacko paper finally seeing the light as opposed to a wacko paper finding a new and exciting way of being wacko. In other words, isn't it interesting how much more reasonable someone suddenly becomes when they happen to agree with you ?

When I went to school in Iowa, I remember it being called "The Des Moines Red Star"...but it's honestly hard to take accusations of left-wing media bias seriously any more. It's far more likely that the Register is an average paper that typically prefers Democrats and likes Romney this year for whatever reason.

 

[Rainsford]

It looks more like the dems did not want to work with him to reduce the budget deficit.

That's a child's excuse, on both sides. "He doesn't want to work with me, so I'm not working with him!" The fact is that Romney and the legislature obviously disagreed on how to run a state and weren't at all willing to compromise on it. That doesn't speak very well of either side, to be honest, but I'm not being asked to vote for the state legislators for President.

 

[dmcowen674]

Des Moines Register Endorses Romney

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/ar...resh-economic-vision?Frontpage&nclick_check=1

This may not matter much to most, especially in here but out in flyover territory and in the cornfields, its a BFD. I had to read it twice to make sure it wasn't an Onion piece.

No surprise.

The rich have bought up most of the media in the country, I'm sure this rag in Republican dominated Iowa is not any different.

 

[xBiffx]

It is a little surprising considering Iowa is land of the subsidies (ethanol, I'm looking at you). But what's more interesting is how Romney supporters read this as a wacko paper finally seeing the light as opposed to a wacko paper finding a new and exciting way of being wacko. In other words, isn't it interesting how much more reasonable someone suddenly becomes when they happen to agree with you ?

When I went to school in Iowa, I remember it being called "The Des Moines Red Star"...but it's honestly hard to take accusations of left-wing media bias seriously any more. It's far more likely that the Register is an average paper that typically prefers Democrats and likes Romney this year for whatever reason.

Rationalize much?

 

[xBiffx]

No surprise.

The rich have bought up most of the media in the country, I'm sure this rag in Republican dominated Iowa is not any different.

Republican dominated Iowa? Dave, up the meds man.

 

[Double Trouble]

The register endorsing Romney? That's shocking. I can't remember them ever endorsing a conservative for anything. I wonder what led them to make that decision.

 

[xBiffx]

The register endorsing Romney? That's shocking. I can't remember them ever endorsing a conservative for anything. I wonder what led them to make that decision.

Its right there in the link. They are very open about the reasons for their decision.

 

[Rainsford]

Rationalize much?

Am I? I do think it's interesting and probably significant that the Des Moines Register endorsed Romney, I was more commenting on the (over)reaction from Republicans than the endorsement itself. And the people getting all worked up over it on the left are being silly too, IMO. Same thing goes for the papers you'd expect to endorse Romney who are endorsing Obama.