Laissez Faire and Mitt

I never thought I'd feel sympathy for Mitt Romney. He is very likely to be the GOP nominee for President. I will vote for him once he is nominated. Yet, I feel sorry for him.

Romney is forced to defend his work in the market. Class warfare has become the order of the day, and it is disgusting to hear it coming from the mouths of alleged conservatives.

Sure, Romney and his Bain Capital associates bought companies. Sure, they made profits from the buys. Sure, some jobs were lost. Sure, Romney got richer, but so what? Every American has the opportunity to get richer. It is the thing that makes our country the greatest nation on Earth. We are the best even with the attacks Obama is making against us and the economy.

I feel sorry for Mitt because of the unwarranted criticism against his business at the hands of Newt Gingrich. Gingrich is probably the smartest man in the room, but he has allowed his pain caused by the negative ads to color his judgement. He is attacking Bain/Romney for 'looting' the companies that Bain bought.

No one put a gun to the heads of the owners of these businesses to force a sale. Voluntary transactions took place. The Bain boys used the rules in place to make a dollar. Do I like the present set of rules? Not entirely, but they are the rules. I want to change some of them to restore that laissez faire attitude to our economy. I work in elections to put into office folks who believe the same, or nearly the same, things that I believe.

Do I have sympathy for those who lost jobs? Certainly, I do. It is disastrous for us to have the unemployment rate we have today. It is unacceptable, but we must recognize that we are unemployed at this level because of government's intrusion into the economy.

Rational men will make rational decisions in their own self-interest. When we do, we must live with the consequences. We cannot beg for bailouts. We must be men, not boys.

The greatest economic success in world history is America. We succeed because of our system of free markets and free choice. We are down now because of the assault by Progressives and their misguided economic theories advocating top down decisions.

Once we stop the spending at the Federal level and restore confidence in the system, once we educate the public to the great energy of the American system, once we turn to laissez faire, then we will re-emerge as the economic powerhouse that is unchallenged on the face of the Earth.

Until then, fellow Republicans, stop attacking the system just so you can have a bit of revenge. All of us have feet of clay. We have to win an election in November to replace the Marxist-in-chief. We can't do it if we have torn each other to ribbons.

By the way, we are going to defeat Obama.