Important "Let Me Finish" tonight on Hardball

[Nancy Waterman]

http://hardballblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/24/11866169-matthews-romneys-business-record-does-not-qualify-him-to-direct-the-country

Mitt Romney has one pitch. Since it's his only pitch, he makes it again and again. It's that he is a man of business, someone who's spent his life in business doing it, thinking about it, experiencing it, and this is why he, Mitt Romney, is a better man than the President to direct the business of the country.

But the question, an important one, is whether Romney would take his business training and use it for the country, or take the office of the presidency and use it to help his fellow business people? Will he serve the people or the CEOs? The 99 percent or the 1 percent?
It's a basic, useful question to ask. What if he plays the business game in ways that favor the wealthy like himself? What if he cuts taxes for the wealthy? What if he eliminates environmental and safety regulations? What if he pulls down the financial regulations put in place since the crash of '08 and '09? What if he sides with the wheeler-dealers and opens the door for all hell to break loose like it did under Bush? What if he can't see what was done wrong, but wants instead to do it all over again?

[pacalo]

1. I couldn't agree more.

Especially in these economic times, the last thing our country needs is Gordon Gekko making the decisions.

I hope he continues to call attention to his business experience; people need to know how this vulture made his money.

[madashelltoo]

2. CAN'T FIX WHAT YOU CAN'T SEE

Mitt has no idea what everyone is crying about. You have no jobs because you're not willing to go out in the fields and work for nickels and dimes in inclement weather. Your children don't need better schools, smaller classes, or teachers with up-to-date books and technology, or that house you bought that's worthless now. Got bills . . . fuck! . . . file bankruptcy! Oh, you don't have the filing fees? Borrow it from your parents. Oh, they don't have it either. Well check Mitt's safety net he insists is out there to catch you. It's filled. Looks to me like you are going to be fucked by the fake smiling man with the expensive haircut. Hope he's gentle.

Please don't say, "Well, Obama's not doing anything for us." He can't. Your golden boys have been standing on his hands ever since he raised it and swore on the bible. Has anyone noticed they're not grinning quite so wide right now? If Walker wins on June 5th we will have to wear sunglasses in our hovels. It will blow new winds into the sails of old Mitty Boy. Just remember, he'll get them to hold you down and cut your hair. Oh, that's okay because you couldn't afford a haircut anyway.

Please VOTE!!!!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Bush policies.......steroids.

Nothing else more needs to be said IMHO- and Romney's campaign VOLUNTARILY ADMITTED this! While the argument was made back in 2008 that John McCain would be "Bush's third term" because of his general support of Republican policies, Romney's campaign has actually acknowledged that Bush's economic policies that plunged our country into the mess in 2008 will be his policies- albeit on steroids. I don't think that anything else Romney could have done would have made it easier for President Obama to make that argument. Also, we also know that most of Romney's advisers were part of the same "marketing team" that brought us Iraq Part 2.

[Nancy Waterman]

4. I agree this should be the campaign's main attack

Romney would be Bush 3 - in economic and foreign policy. Same policies, same advisors.
Definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result.

He is even out there extolling Cheney for his "wisdom". Rachel had the video the other night. That should go viral!