USA Today, on politics:
Mitt Romney is reportedly meeting today with Sheldon Adelson, the casino mogul who bankrolled the super PAC behind Newt Gingrich.
The video interview above was published by the Jewish Journal in March at Tribefest, hosted by the Jewish Federations in Las Vegas. Adelson:
I’m what you might call a social liberal. On the social issues– I’m not pro life, I’m pro-choice… The problem with Romney… he’s not the bold decisionmaker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says, ‘Let me think about it.’
P.S. Adelson’s interest in Romney is that he opposes any division of Jerusalem and any pullback of the Israeli settlers, and he fears Obama will support those initiatives. He supported George W. Bush for the same reason.
Thanks to Paul Mutter.
No surprise. The only candidate that is funded entirely by grass-roots support with no contribution from special interest donors like Adelson is Ron Paul.
Whether you vote for Romney or you vote for Obama, you are voting for war.
If Romney is elected it might be the next step in the necessary cycle I theorized about back before Obama was elected….the extreme interest swings further and further down we need to get to some kind of revolution where the public finally become conscious.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4f410a0e-a673-11e1-9453-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1wHg9Q0b1
Mr Romney’s support has strengthened in some national polls this month, although Mr Obama still holds the edge, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average of polls, which gives the president a 1.6 point lead with 45.4 per cent support.
The private equity industry has argued that the attacks are empty and unfair. “There is a lot of rhetoric in a political campaign and a lot of hyperbole,” says Steve Judge, president of the Private Equity Growth Capital Council. “It’s something that happens in political campaigns. People get a bit carried away sometimes.”
Steven Davis, a University of Chicago expert on private equity buyouts and their impact on job creation, calls the whole line of attack “pretty worrisome”.
It’s not that private equity guys are angels who are always doing good, but they are an important part of a market economy,” he says. “I’m concerned these attacks will translate into policies that retard the creative destruction process
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“Romney could have been replaced in any of his old jobs, for a lot less money, by any one of thousands of Japanese CEO types.”
I’m sure there are quite a few in TEPCO who would welcome a change just around now.