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I like being able to fire people

Will Romneys words hurt his momentum? And why?

  • Yes

    Votes: 2 22.2%

  • No

    Votes: 5 55.6%

  • Maybe

    Votes: 2 22.2%
  • Total voters
    9
Minotaur

Minotaur

Governor
Mitt Romney presented his personal worry over getting a "pink slip", and followed it up by stating “I like being able to fire people” in a time when many have lost jobs making it easy to use against him by other candidates. He feels he is quoted out of context, his foes seem to present it as symbolic. Republican candidates are running with it and taking a closer look at his time with Bain over the "firing" and the "pinkslip" words. What do you think the impact will be? He is under heavy fire from his opponants currently.
 
Ms. Minotaur,

I would say no. Most rational people agree that they too would like to be able to fire companies (sic) who don't provide adequate services. The only people who would disagree with that statement are worthless government workers (none of which would vote for a Republican anyway, and sorry for being so redundant), people that run DBEs who got their jobs solely by virtue of being a minority, and other neer do wells sucking off the system.

As for taking the statement out of context, he has a point, as you too not only took it out of context, you mis-quoted him.
 
ya-ta-hey said:
Ms. Minotaur,

I would say no. Most rational people agree that they too would like to be able to fire companies (sic) who don't provide adequate services. The only people who would disagree with that statement are worthless government workers (none of which would vote for a Republican anyway, and sorry for being so redundant), people that run DBEs who got their jobs solely by virtue of being a minority, and other neer do wells sucking off the system.

As for taking the statement out of context, he has a point, as you too not only took it out of context, you mis-quoted him.
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Has nothing to do with me or what I think or what he didn't say. It is more about what he said and what his opponants are doing with it. He has now tried to clarify it to say he was talking about service companies and I believe that is what he was talking about but the republican candidates are using sound bite of his exact words were "Fire people". They are actually focusing on "pink slip" as well which is what is bringing Bain into it. Here is an update for you that has nothing to do with democrats or how they see it. I was inable to say it would or would not hurt him because I do think he meant it as he explained but I do not know how the far right will feel about it and whether they will use it as an excuse to go for another candidate. Only republicans have that answer I suspect:

HUDSON, N.H. — After more than a week of not taking questions from his press corps, and after two days of back-to-back comments that his campaign has scrambled to explain, Mitt Romney stepped to the microphone after an event at metal fabricating plant here Monday afternoon, and sought to clarify remarks he has made about fearing the “pink slip” in his private sector career, as well as his statement earlier in the day that he likes “being able to fire” people or businesses that provide poor service.

Offering more context to his assertion at a morning Chamber of Commerce event Monday that he enjoys firing people — “I like to be able to fire people who provide services to me,” Mr. Romney said then, in Nashua, N.H. — Mr. Romney further clarified that he was referring to his belief that individuals should have the choice to get rid of insurance companies that are not providing adequate care and coverage.

Here is a link for you if you have not read the latest news on it:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/romney-seeks-to-clarify-pink-slip-remarks/
 
Ms. Monitaur,

See, when you put it in context, it sounds extremely rational and is something you can get behind, would you not say?
 
I voted no Minotaur because who else have the republicons got that even stands a chance against Obama? Sanitarium? He would be lucky to get 50 electoral votes. Newt? He might do a little better than Sanitarium, but not by much. Perry will be gone after Florida. Huntsman may well switch parties. Ron Paul might get 10 electoral votes from the nutso crowd. There are rumors of a "Draft Jeb" movement or "Draft Anyone but Romney", but the republicons would then risk looking like fools for spending so much money this last year chasing fools.
 
Poor Mitt...He looked like he really did like to fire people...Push them aside and then collect winnings....At Bain it must have been something he did a lot...and he liked it
 
Minotaur said:
Look at my link above to ya-ta-hey. I believe he is quoted correctly but interpreted purposely incorrectly by his opponants.
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Whining that Mitt was quoted out of context, is useless. The only thing that matters, is what people hear. None of us minds being able to let say.....our cellphone carrier go, in favor of another. But....it's just a tad "creepy" when we get to farting about how good it makes us feel, to FIRE! the original carrier.
 
Saladin2 said:
Poor Mitt...He looked like he really did like to fire people...Push them aside and then collect winnings....At Bain it must have been something he did a lot...and he liked it
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Kind of a catch 22 attack on Mitt if they go after him through Bain sticking up for jobs and looking like the OWS voice raised against the mean corporate job loser. LOL

I can't get a pulse on this yet.
 
fairsheet said:
Whining that Mitt was quoted out of context, is useless. The only thing that matters, is what people hear. None of us minds being able to let say.....our cellphone carrier go, in favor of another. But....it's just a tad "creepy" when we get to farting about how good it makes us feel, to FIRE! the original carrier.
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And that is exactly where they are hitting him at, liking to fire, and opening the door over Bain with that and the "Pink Slip" line. Good point about "What the people hear" counting as I suspect the ones trailing behind Mitt have that exact thing in mind. On one hand I think Mitt accidentally opened the door but my reality bite says they were waiting for anything innocent or not to jump on the Bain bandwagon. They are running out of time.
 
jammer said:
I voted no Minotaur because who else have the republicons got that even stands a chance against Obama? Sanitarium? He would be lucky to get 50 electoral votes. Newt? He might do a little better than Sanitarium, but not by much. Perry will be gone after Florida. Huntsman may well switch parties. Ron Paul might get 10 electoral votes from the nutso crowd. There are rumors of a "Draft Jeb" movement or "Draft Anyone but Romney", but the republicons would then risk looking like fools for spending so much money this last year chasing fools.
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Not that it may matter but in today's election Mitt should be fine. I am looking at who comes in 2nd before thinking about all that but I don't think Huntsman would ever go 3rd party. Paul could jump parties though. Drafting anyone new at this stage would almost seem to be too chaotic to think about long. Wouldn't that be strange? I guess we just fasten our seatbelts to watch.
 
The premise he states as why he feels this way is really stupid. what company is going to bargian with an insurance company to provide a good cost of group insurance so people who are fired can take it with them. It would drive up the group insurance rates and also lose control over what the company is willing to provide or pay for.

Good luck getting any insurance company that provides group insurance rates to allow people to take it with them. Then if the company you worked with then goes with a different ins. carrier, or a cheaper policy for less, what is the ins, company going to do, tell the employee oh by the way you will have to go back to your old company and find out who they have now because we no longer are insuring them. Or what about all those people who once worked for a company that goes
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's up. Do you think an insurance company is going to continue to give them the same rate to all the employees that find other jobs, as when it was a group.
 
People like Mitt don't understand what a group policy is all about. I am sure his insurance is a Golden parachute policy.
 
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