America’s Second CEO President?

8:07 pm EST April 15th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 10 Comments

Multiple Choice Mitt Romney’s campaign, cash-heavy but poll-light (he rarely seems to crack single digits, its almost as if Dennis Kucinich had Hillary Clinton’s fundraisers), is apparently latching on to the frame that Mitt Romney can work as “A CEO for The USA” by highlighting this slurp-piece from the constantly misinforming Rich Lowry from The National Review. The problem is that George W. Bush was hyped as America’s CEO president. He is the first president with an MBA. Of course, as some comedian said, we happened to get the CEO of Enron. By any objective measure, the management style of Bush is a disaster. He doesn’t allow dissenting opinions and has surrounded himself with a cadre of “yes” men and women. They don’t believe in the public good and see whatever portions of the government they don’t destroy as fertile ground to be pillaged for their corporate backers.

This is the legacy Romney wants to embrace?

OK.

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10 Responses to “America’s Second CEO President?”

  1. z adura says:
    April 15, 2007 at 8:47 pm

    The big difference is that Romney actually was the CEO of something meaningful before running for president. There is a big difference.

  2. David Glick says:
    April 15, 2007 at 10:01 pm

    Perhaps if you would take the time to actually look into Romneys business record, rather than you knee-jerk reactions against him, you would find that he was an eminently successful CEO. Bush may have been called a CEO, Romney actually was.

  3. fd10801 says:
    April 15, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    People selling us goods and services figure out they got to make them better every year. The people who run government feel no similar obligation

    Sounds like a campaign to me…

    How are Edwards, Clinton, Obama, et.al. going to answer that?

    We do so!

    Heh

  4. Oliver Willis says:
    April 15, 2007 at 10:57 pm

    You mean Romney’s record of buying companies and gutting them without regard to the workers? Or perhaps his overtaking of credit with the Olympics? I lived in Massachusetts for a while, Willard ain’t no mystery to me.

  5. fd10801 says:
    April 15, 2007 at 11:03 pm

    People selling us goods and services figure out they got to make them better every year. The people who run government feel no similar obligation

    Sounds like a campaign to me…

    How are Edwards, Clinton, Obama, et.al. going to answer that?

    We do so!

    Heh

  6. z adura says:
    April 15, 2007 at 11:56 pm

    Oliver, Bain is typically listed as one of the best organizations in America for which to work. He founded Bain Capital, one of the most respected Private Equity firms in the world. He can point to a stellar business career and has proven himself to be an innovative leader. You can argue about his politics, lack of consistency or lack of merit as a governor, but his career is pretty unimpeachable.

  7. Oliver Willis says:
    April 16, 2007 at 3:35 am

    Really?

  8. z adura says:
    April 16, 2007 at 12:07 pm

    Oliver, Al Gore was the architect of the National Performance Review, which essentially trimmed the size of the government by $58 billion. What was trimmed? Jobs, good union government jobs. Was this a good thing? You bet. It was part of the reason that Clinton was able to balance the budget and it was one of the reasons I strongly supported Al Gore for president.

    Bain Capital takes ailing companies, i.e. laggards in their industry, and trims them down, cleans them up and makes them leaders again. This is a quality I liked in Gore and it is definitely a quality I like in Romney. Were there losers in the NPR and in Bain Capital’s acquisitions? Yes. Were the small relative to the winners? Yes again.

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