Does anyone think Mitt Romney could ever run a real business?

[Aristus]

You know, a traditional make-a-product-market-it-sell-it kind of business? It seems a slash-and-burn predatory capitalistic business like Bain is the only type he could make a success of. The guy is an absolute incompetent!...

[rurallib]

1. probably couldn't keep employees

among many other problems.

[cheezmaka]

2. I believe he can run a business

He just can't run the COUNTRY!!!

[DrDan]

3. absolutely - he is driven by $$$$$ - will do whatever it takes

[Freddie]

4. Just long enough to milk it for every penny

Lay off everyone and lock the doors

[Navl]

5. He can run a business just fine,

the question is "can he run the government the way we want it run"? Obama is much better suited to that, as well as the expansion of government that is to come.

[Siwsan]

6. He could run a real business into the ground

[Bonhomme Richard]

7. He has zero empathy which makes him very suited.....

to ripping apart peoples lives for money.

[KT2000]

8. No - unless it was a collection agency

He comes in after the hard work has been done and then exploits the business for short term gain.
Running a real business involves planning for the future and so many talents that he does not have.

His private equity business was about turning the targets into something that SERVED romney and his partnesr, not about creating and maintaining anything. He is just a lazy-minded player - the same loser that held down a classmate and cut his hair off, and smashed his kid's face into a plate of mashed potatoes.

[kestrel91316]

9. He's not qualified to do janitorial/maintenance work at my clinic. He lies too much, and

doesn't know the meaning of a hard day's work. Oh, and that smirk.......he'd completely creep me out. I wouldn't be able to tolerate that for 5 minutes. He reminds me of Ted Bundy.

[jmowreader]

12. I would have a hard time accepting him as a CLIENT of your clinic

If you hired the guy, you'd walk in after a weekend to find half the cats gone and whiskers stuck between his teeth.

[kestrel91316]

14. As a client, he'd consider himself too important to bother with trips to the vet.

He'd send the cat to me with the maid. The one that speaks English, of course, not the others.

The wife wouldn't have time either, and sitting in a waiting room with, ahem, less important people is something she wouldn't ever deign to do. Hair and nails and spas can't wait, you know. Nor can the fancy horsie.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

10. He could not and, in fact, he has not...

Mitt Romney has never worked one day in his life as the actual manager of, or even an employee of, the type of company you describe. He became a consultant directly out of college and never worked directly for an actual business in his life.

[railsback]

11. I'm starting to believe Bain kicked him out

Forced retirement. The only thing he did was supply the capital at start up.

[jmowreader]

13. No, he couldn't do that

Romney listened really well at MBA school when the subject was cutting expenses. It's all he really knows how to do. And he seems like a zero-defects kinda guy--someone you don't tell when shit goes wrong because he believes in killing messengers.

Unfortunately, in the real world of business not everything is going to be profitable, not everything goes according to plan, sometimes shit screws up. You fix it and move on. Romney wouldn't allow anyone to fix it--he would get rid of them and hire new people for less money.

[HopeHoops]

15. Fuck no.