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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy does Mitt Romney want to be President?
Martin Bashir just asked a great question
he basically said:
Mitt Romney wanted to let the housing market go bust
he wanted to let Detroit go bankrupt
and he doesn't want to help the working poor
what does he want to do? Why does he want to be president?
I have one extra thing he didn't mention
Romney's plan for the middle east is kick the ball down the road and hope someone else picks it up.
When you start to put the things he says together it really sounds like the narrative he is putting together is
DO NOTHING GET PAID! I think that is his bumpersticker slogan he doesn't want us to know
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Seriously, wanting something doesn't mean you should have it.
Crackheads want Crack
Meth addicts wants meth
Alcoholics want booze
It doesn't mean they should have it
Mittens may want to be President, but he doesn't deserve to be President
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)hee. this is a joke, in case you think I am serious. I don't think you can take these people at their word.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)That is when they are telling the MOST truth. I think the worst thing he said was he didn't know what to do about the Middle East. And don't quote Ann too much use her sparingly
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)Takes over operations that have financial problems, borrows tons of money in their name, sells off the infrastructure and then he and his buddies pocket the money.
That's what he did to every company he took over. That's what he'll do to the US.
Initech
(100,081 posts)And that would be economic suicide for us. The US would enter into a depression that would not be able to recover from. And the vulture criminal thieves like the Koch Roaches would get it all and laugh all the way to the bank.
left on green only
(1,484 posts).......even before Bain Capitol, isn't the r man's primary allegiance to the morman church? To that I would ask the question, "During a Romney presidency, how do we wash our magic underwear when we look down and discover they have a gold spot in them?"
Initech
(100,081 posts)Beartracks
(12,816 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)Dad was a Governor, Mitt had to be one too.
Dad ran for President and failed, Mitt wants to one up his dad.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)hamsterjill
(15,222 posts)n/t
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)To enhance his resume.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Sort of like Shrub invading Iraq because his father didn't get Saddam overthrown.
Not only was George Romney likely to not have been qualified to be President because of his birth in Mexico, his campaign was as disastrous as Mitt's is.
Reporter Jack Germond joked that he was going to add a single key on his typewriter that would print, "Romney later explained...."[20] Life magazine wrote that Romney "manages to turn self-expression into a positive ordeal" and that he was no different in private: "nobody can sound more like the public George Romney than the real George Romney let loose to ramble, inevitably away from the point and toward some distant moral precept."[11] The perception grew that Romney was gaffe-prone and a plodder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Romney_presidential_campaign,_1968#Campaign_development
Rambis
(7,774 posts)Rummy and Cheney wanted $ that was enough for shrub!
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)especially his own.
ecstatic
(32,712 posts)and he did express self hatred during his rant against people who don't pay income taxes. Maybe he just needed a job and nobody else was hiring?
mnhtnbb
(31,392 posts)kentuck
(111,103 posts)Just something he wants to do before he dies...
Whisp
(24,096 posts)but to do whatever he can for the 1% and get his money that way.
Or, his next reveal via vid or otherwise, will be he wants Mormons to rule the earth and he was called to lead that.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)very much
barbtries
(28,799 posts)to put on his wall?
i think we can all agree that it is NOT because he wants to serve his country. serving his church may have some bearing on it.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)Vulture capitalist to the bitter end.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)Maybe it just seemed like a good idea one day...so what the hell...give it a
try... I did everything else! All the rich and stupid white racist will give me a majority.
woodsprite
(11,916 posts)moondust
(19,993 posts)Divine right of kings?
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)I think of him as the Mormans GREAT WHITE HYPE
randr
(12,412 posts)JI7
(89,252 posts)that's the only way i can see.
bongbong
(5,436 posts)Or combination thereof:
1) Make more money for himself
2) Send more gov't money (read: taxpayer dollars) to his Mormon cronies' businesses
3) White Horse prophecy
4) Power mad sociopath
That's it. Take your pick, or pick a combo and assign a percentage of the total to each of your picks.
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)probably burned into his head since he was born by his dad.
valerief
(53,235 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,414 posts)I don't think anybody does, honestly. The best theory I've heard is that he wants to add it to his "trophy collection".
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)Both the Romney plan and Pizzanomics (written by another guy who lives off his investments) called for eliminating the capital gains tax.
Tribetime
(4,699 posts)he only cares about himself. The world revolves around him.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Mitt is the man for the job!
arthritisR_US
(7,288 posts)tavalon
(27,985 posts)In fact, he knows it.
Samantha
(9,314 posts)plan funds in the world -- the Social Security Trust Fund. I believe that.
Obviously, if the man were truly interested in politics or public service, he would update his own personal knowledge base on issues of importance. Since he obviously does not, there has to be something else prompting him to try to gain the Oval Office. Since money appears to be his main interest, I would say the Social Security Trust Fund is the beacon for Romney's run.
In 2003, when Bush* tried this, economic analysts projected if he were successful, the transition costs to a private entity would be 3 trillion dollars. They said the Federal Government would not pay the transition costs, and neither would a receiving entity. The only way it could be accomplished would be if the beneficiaries paid for the transition. That would mean a cut in monthly benefit checks.
If the estimate in 2003 was 3 trillion dollars, I wonder what that number would be today. Can you imagine getting your social security check in the mail with a Bain Capital return address on the envelope (or an electronic deposit from Bain)? It is beyond my comprehension ... really. And then your eye focuses on the amount and you see how much less the check is than what you were projected to get because you had to contribute to the transitional costs, in order words the Bain coffers.
Sam