Republicans rally around Romney after hits on Bain

[Judi Lynn]

Republicans rally around Romney after hits on Bain
By Thomas Beaumont and Kasie Hunt
Associated Press / January 13, 2012

Mitt Romney's sharpest critics -- rushed to the GOP presidential front-runner's defense Thursday to counter efforts to paint the former venture capitalist as a job-killer. Under fire, Romney rival Newt Gingrich tempered his attacks on Romney's tenure at the helm of Bain Capital, but Rick Perry defended his approach.

"We're disappointed" with the line of criticism, said Thomas Donohue, the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The business group doesn't endorse in presidential campaigns, but Donohue said: "We think Romney has had a pretty good track record. Perfect? Hell no, but damn good."

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who ran against Romney four years ago, wrote in an online letter: "It's surprising to see so many Republicans embrace that left-wing argument against capitalism." And another 2008 foe, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, told Fox News Channel: "I'm shocked at what they are doing. I'm going to say it's ignorant. Dumb. It's building something we should be fighting -- ignorance of the American economic system."

Romney's new defenders -- many of whom have long histories of disagreeing with the former Massachusetts governor -- argued that the attacks on his business record undermined the GOP's identity and weakened the party's chief argument against Democratic President Barack Obama, that federal intrusion has stymied the economy's recovery.

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[truthisfreedom]

1. Naw, not so much. What it's really illustrating is the behind-the-scenes differences

between those rethugs who believe in real business and those who believe in Bain's type of investment business, which is a bunch of voodoo and theft and really shows how corrupt things have become in this country.

[JI7]

2. Republicans might be making a mistake by defending this

much of the red state conservatives are conservative and vote republican because of things like abortion , gays, religion, guns etc.

but if they only voted on economic issues they wouldn't get much support.

Democrats didn't lose the south because of economic policies .

and some of the polls out show Romney and Gingrich are close .

i wonder how the social conservatives who don't have a job or not making enough and worry about keeping their home, paying medical bills feel when they watch all the Wealthy Republicans out there defending this shit.

[NYC Liberal]

4. Agreed. Repugs win on the "red meat" social issues.

You'll notice no Republican ever runs on the economy from 2001-2009 when they were running things.

[CanonRay]

3. They are afraid the country will learn what Rethug capitalism really is about.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

5. The GOP establishment is spooked. It's not only damaging to their presumptive nominee, but could

open the fissures between factions within the Party. They don't want to go there, but the Genie is out of bottle.

[PRETZEL]

6. Part damage control, imo

I think they're starting to circle the wagons to a certain degree. By month's end the field will more than likely be down to 3 with Mitt, Newt(or Santorum) and Paul. By the time Super Tuesday rolls around in February, it may be over.

They need to start refining their message while at the same time letting info out on R-money's (thanks to whomever penned that name) Bain's practices and their form of "capitalism". Guilliani's got a point, "ignorance of the American economic system" is the message they need to control. The more America learns about not only Bain, but the nature of venture capitalism doesn't bode well. As more people learn that "profits over people" is one of the underlying forces of venture capitalism, the less they'll like it and that would be a huge liability to R-money.

[Major Hogwash]

7. Huckabuck just made his move.

Kissing Mitt's ass.

Say good-bye to Faux Snooze, and hellooo to "Vice Presidential running mate".

Has a nice ring to it, don't it?

[Evasporque]

8. GOP will spin that corporate rading and job elimination are good things....

But the "Job Creators" of Romney's ilk are really JOB ELIMINATORS!

[Ruby the Liberal]

9. Not surprised at the wagon circling at all

We did the same when the Citizens United group put out the Hillary movie.

What a mess that created...

[The Second Stone]

10. Did a bunch of people lose pensions in the Bain

rampages? If so, they need to be found to make commercials.