Romney Calls Obama a ‘Crony Capitalist’

[RandySF]

SALEM, N.H. — Mitt Romney on Thursday branded President Obama a “crony capitalist” for making three appointments to the National Labor Relations Board without Congressional approval, suggesting the move was a reward to organized labor for its political support.

“This president has engaged and is engaging in crony capitalism,” Mr. Romney said. “It is happening with the Labor Relations Board.”

It was an unusually pointed and personal attack on Mr. Obama, whom Mr. Romney has long sought to portray as an overzealous advocate for labor unions, and it appeared deliberately timed to appeal to Republican primary voters in South Carolina: the state has relatively relaxed union rules and a labor board decision involving a Boeing airline plant there has stirred widespread anger.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/romney-calls-obama-a-crony-capitalist/

[girl gone mad]

1. I guess it takes one to know one. n/t

[getdown]

4. my first thought too

[banned from Kos]

6. Name one company Obama has cronied up with since inauguration day.

That has directly benefited financially (other than energy in the stimulus bill).

Yeah - I know. He didn't put Jamie Dimon in jail without charges.

[banned from Kos]

2. and how in the hell does being pro-labor help a stock price?

And whose stock price is helped by this move?

[TwilightGardener]

3. Mittens' handlers will correct him severely for ever acknowledging Obama is a capitalist.

[11 Bravo]

5. Rove may not care for him, but Mittens has read the Rovian playbook.

Accuse and attack your opponent where you are the most vulnerable. (I despise Romney, but suck it Karl! Chickens always come home to roost.)

[Scuba]

7. In response, Obama called Romney a black orator.

[SomethingFishy]

8. Then, in a moment of clarity

Obama said "I didn't say black orator, I said blah orator."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. ...