It what can only be described as a perverted turn of events over the last day and a half for the candidates seeking the republican nomination for President, Newt Gingrich continues to lead the charge of labeling Mitt Romney as a “corporate raider whose firm destroyed the dreams of thousands of Americans by buying up companies and firing its workers.” Many people had predicted Gingrich would eventually implode as he always has had a propensity of doing, most credibly coming from his former colleagues who served with Newt in Congress.
I would call that in and of itself a major poker tell when NONE of your past piers or subordinates had come forth with positive things to say about a man running for President of the United States.
The good Newt news is the breakdown has happened in the primary and not the general election with Newt as the non-Romney Nominee, the bad news is the anti-capitalism rhetoric about Romney’s days at Bain Capital spread like kudzu today among the other non-Romneys, except for Rick Santorum who steadied the conservative line. And Ron Paul, but what party is Ron Paul in anyway? So now three Republican candidates vying for our country’s highest office, a former republican Speaker of the House and two republican governors, Perry who is still running Texas I guess, and Huntsman, have taken the position of Barack Obama, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Media Matters and any other liberal public figure or organization, that the free market is evil and run by abominable, wicked Gordon Gecko types who only serve themselves, their own bank accounts and blow through everyday people in their wake destroying lives and leaving people destitute.
WOW! I feel like I may actually be at that Hollywood Halloween Alice In Wonderland White House party and fallen down a twisted rabbit hole! With all the material the non-Romneys could reference on Mitt – RomneyCare, flip-flops, conservative credentials, etc – purported LEADERS of the GOP have waged an all out OCCUPY THE FREE MARKET PROTEST! This has to be the biggest bunch of pious bologna perhaps ever in the history of the conservative movement! No one should be shocked at Newt’s behavior, Huntsman is now a weirder weasel, but as difficult it has been to watch Perry meltdown in multiple debates (and who can forget his “live free or die speech” where he seemed stoned), I am simply disappointed he has stooped such reprehensible tactics as I really thought he was better than this.
The political vetting process is about fleshing out candidates records both public and private, and to repeat Romney has a plethora of questionable conservative material that can and should be explored, but by attacking Mitt’s former private equity firm, these weak candidates are attacking the fabric of the American free enterprise system that at one time made the United States of America great. I say “made” in past tense because America has truly seen better days when purported conservatives use liberal methods of attack.
Good for you Rick Santorum for not being tempted to follow a charge counter-intuitive to all conservative ideology, if you weren’t so big government I would take a 100th look at your campaign. Axelrod and Plouffe were already planning to take the general election down the class warfare path, but now they have weak republican candidates to interject in their coming TV ad war that probably will help further their divisive reelection narrative.
-Buzz