National Review Op-Ed calls for investors to drive stock marked down to help get Romney elected

[kpete]

MON AUG 27, 2012 AT 11:45 AM PDT
National Review Op-Ed calls for investors to drive stock marked down to help get Romney elected
by Lefty Coaster

Republican luminary Donald L. Luskin, the author of I Am John Galt: Today’s Heroic Innovators Building the World and the Villainous Parasites Destroying It is calling on like minded investors to halt the current market rally and bring on a Bear Market leading up to the election to help Mitt Romney's chances of getting elected. Luskin tries to attribute the current stock market rally to Romney's selection of Ryan as VP, signaling to investors that happy days will be here again with Ryan as Vice President.

Better to Be Bearish
By Donald L. Luskin

If stocks continue to climb, confidence in the economy will climb too, and Obama could win. On the other hand, a falling stock market will poison confidence, and Romney will win.

What’s an investor to hope for — a stock-market crash? Perhaps, but happily the best outcome is the most likely one — a polarizing, down-and-dirty, rock-’em-sock-’em campaign that maximizes uncertainty and keeps the economy and the stock market on tenterhooks from now till November.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/27/1124742/--National-Review-Op-Ed-calls-for-investors-to-drive-stock-marked-down-to-help-get-Romney-elected

[louis-t]

1. It is a sickness, being a Republican.

Hey Donnie, why not just give out guns so they can shoot themselves in the foot? You Randian jackass.

[JaneyVee]

2. How "patriotic". Idiots!

[HooptieWagon]

3. What idiots.

[redwitch]

4. And gasoline prices up?

These people sicken me.

[Blue_Tires]

5. Is it too tinfoil-y of me to mention I thought they were already doing this?

along with some other "manufactured" corporate crises?

[FSogol]

6. The best way of driving stock prices down would be to elect Mitt Romney.

What a conundrum?

[chowder66]

7. How is this NOT an attack on our Nation? Seriously.

When Republicans refuse to do the business of the people to try to make Obama a one term President that is hurting the PEOPLE by sitting on their asses or attacking settled law or making political statement motions, etc. They are collecting pay, collecting benefits for idealogy and refusal to do the PEOPLES business. Which nearly everyone is feeling now.

When Republicans hold the debt ceiling hostage that is an attack on the country which means ALL OF US.

When Repubicans make moves to suppress the vote that is an attack on ALL OF US.
Just because someone may not be a minority, a student or elderly does not mean this doesn't effect you. If you're not elderly now you WILL BE some day. Everyone's voting rights are being attacked right now because one day we will all hopefully live to be elderly.

When Republicans reveal identities of government agents or military personnel that jeopardizes their lives and the lives of those around them, that is an attack that hurts ALL of us.

When Republicans call for driving the stock market down it affects ALL OF US. Whether or not you have stock the ramifications reach far beyond which in the end hurts ALL of us.

When Repulicans attack human/civil rights, it hurts ALL OF US.

This is the work of the Republican and Tea Bagger Party against the Citizens of the United States and OUR government. I don't care if these idiots are elected officials (as a matter of fact they are the worst of them) but this kind of shit from every sector is pissing me off to no end. Media, Corporations, Organizations, Supreme Court, Elected Officials, Lobbyists, Supporters, Candidates and the Religious Right are all hurting their own, us and everyone in this country.

They need to be investigated and stripped of priviledges/seats/jobs/positions, sued or arrested if any actual crimes can be identified that the republicans themselves haven't written in the loopholes for.

What the hell will we do?

[cloudbase]

8. There is so much stock

held by various benefit plans around the country that no (responsible) plan trustee would even consider doing something like that. Individual investors won't want to take the hit.

This is a non starter.

[MadHound]

9. The thing is, most people don't think that the stock market reflects the realities of the economy,

But more what their paycheck is, if they're employed, if their friends and family are employed, etc. etc.

[onethatcares]

10. these are the type of people that

want to have your retirement funds in their hands. No wonder they are trying their damnedest to get those

social security dollars.

If they can manipulate the market, then our economy is worse than smoke and mirrors. It's outright fraud.

[dawg]

11. Donald Luskin is something I refer to as a "reliable contrarian indicator".

That's investor-speak for, "He's as dumb as a bag of hammers and I can make money nearly 100% of the time by doing the opposite of what he says."

Liberal Economist Brad DeLong consistently refers to Mr. Luskin as "the Stupidest Man Alive", and while that may be somewhat of an exaggeration, I have not seen any truly convincing evidence to the contrary.