Monday, July 23, 2012
What this election will really decide -
How large is the low-educated, no analytical skills voting group. In my review: 15% benefit from the current economic arrangement and they break 75%/25% republican. About another 10-12% are progressive.Same number conservative but uncertain about this group. Another 10% on each side back whatever. And the other 40%, well, fortunately half don't vote. It's the half that do, I'm worried about.
Friday, July 13, 2012
What's behind romney's past secrets?
Well, I have my take:
Is this just another hysterical episode from the romney campaign or the real deal? If this runs another week then it will burn until the convention. If romney survives the nomination what will he look like on Labor Day, the start of the final run?
And here's some-one else's thinking:
An Andrew Sullivan reader who is an securities attorney writes:
"The average voter is more like a member of a jury than an SEC board member or securities lawyer. Here is the case that I would make against Romney on this issue, in a nutshell:
He was listed as President, CEO, and sole stockholder of Bain until 2002 on SEC filings that carry criminal penalties if they are false.
He doesn’t dispute that he owned the company, lock, stock and barrel.
During that time we know that he was paid at least $100,000 - an enormous sum to most jurors. You don’t get paid that kind of money for doing nothing.
We don’t know how much more he was paid because he won’t release his taxes.
Before he ran for Governor of Mass in 2002, he talked about how he attended board meetings for Staples and Marriott – two Bain Companies during that time period.
He is responsible, like all CEOs, for what Bain did through 2002.
He says it took three years to "change the name of the CEO"? Bain would target a company, swoop in, divert all the cash, pick the bones, fire the employees and be gone in less time than that.
His story is (insert synonym for BS)
Then, when opposing counsel wanted to argue Romney wasn’t paying attention to particular deals, that SEC document was for Bain LP, not Bain Capital, LLC, or whatever, I would just let him talk. All it does is make him look like more of a BS artist.
Is this just another hysterical episode from the romney campaign or the real deal? If this runs another week then it will burn until the convention. If romney survives the nomination what will he look like on Labor Day, the start of the final run?
And here's some-one else's thinking:
An Andrew Sullivan reader who is an securities attorney writes:
"The average voter is more like a member of a jury than an SEC board member or securities lawyer. Here is the case that I would make against Romney on this issue, in a nutshell:
He was listed as President, CEO, and sole stockholder of Bain until 2002 on SEC filings that carry criminal penalties if they are false.
He doesn’t dispute that he owned the company, lock, stock and barrel.
During that time we know that he was paid at least $100,000 - an enormous sum to most jurors. You don’t get paid that kind of money for doing nothing.
We don’t know how much more he was paid because he won’t release his taxes.
Before he ran for Governor of Mass in 2002, he talked about how he attended board meetings for Staples and Marriott – two Bain Companies during that time period.
He is responsible, like all CEOs, for what Bain did through 2002.
He says it took three years to "change the name of the CEO"? Bain would target a company, swoop in, divert all the cash, pick the bones, fire the employees and be gone in less time than that.
His story is (insert synonym for BS)
Then, when opposing counsel wanted to argue Romney wasn’t paying attention to particular deals, that SEC document was for Bain LP, not Bain Capital, LLC, or whatever, I would just let him talk. All it does is make him look like more of a BS artist.
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