{"id":25262,"date":"2012-01-10T08:52:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T15:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/attacking-big-business-from-the-right.html"},"modified":"2012-01-11T15:50:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T22:50:11","slug":"attacking-big-business-from-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/attacking-big-business-from-the-right.html","title":{"rendered":"Attacking Big Business &#8230; from the Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s fascinating to see the attacks being launched on Romney now from his GOP competitors, criticizing him for &#8230; well being a Big Businessman. And, yes, they sound just like attacks from Progressives and the Occupy movement and so forth &#8230; and will (assuming Romney gets the nomination) be quoted extensively by the Obama campaign in the general election.<\/p>\n<p>The question is, are these candidates acting from their beliefs  that these are attacks that resonate with the American people, or are they desperately lashing out for anything to keep That Man from being the GOP nominee? Because it&#39;s not a set of lines we&#39;ve heard from the Right before, and it&#39;s very different from the &quot;He&#39;s soft on liberal social issues&quot; line that they were using previously. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/political-animal\/2012_01\/fighting_on_democrats_turf034659.php'>Fighting on Democrats\u2019 turf<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTake a guess who said this yesterday: \u201cVoters are just now meeting the Real Romney \u2014 the buyout tycoon who executed takeovers, bankrupted businesses, and sent jobs overseas while killing\u2026\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s fascinating to see the attacks being launched on Romney now from his GOP competitors, criticizing him for &#8230; well being a Big Businessman. And, yes, they sound just like attacks from Progressives and the Occupy movement and so forth &#8230; and will (assuming Romney gets the nomination) be quoted extensively by the Obama campaign &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/attacking-big-business-from-the-right.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Attacking Big Business &#8230; from the Right&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25325,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/reinstating-the-eleventh-commandment.html","url_meta":{"origin":25262,"position":0},"title":"Reinstating the Eleventh Commandment","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Jan-12 11:09am","format":false,"excerpt":"The GOP establishment is trying to rein in Perry and Gingrich and their attacks on Romney -- or, at least, on Romney's corporate raider role at Bain. 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