Romney 2012?

McGentrix wrote:

I heard that Romney also bought Albania in 1993 and he doesn't want anyone to know about that expenditure.

That can't be true. There are Albanians who still have jobs.

You're right. It never was funny. Romney apparently is speaking out of both sides of his ugly mouth. To the Democrats, "Oh, it's just merely a light hearted joke. Just lighten up." To die hard conservatives, he's dead seriously trying to rally the troops.

There's nothing funny about a liar lying about his how lies, especially for any individual running for the highest office of our country.

Can you identify for us what "TRUTHS" he has ever spoken?

Workers at Sensata Technologies, a business based in Freeport, Illinois, have been protesting Mitt Romney’s campaign stops across the country all summer because the company, which is owned by Bain Capital, is laying off workers in order to hire employees in China. Bain took control of Sensata in 2006; last year, it took over the Freeport plant and announced that it would layoff 165 workers and close it.

Some of the workers, according to Sensata employees, have been forced to train their Chinese replacements, adding insult to the injury that was their looming job loss.

Bain’s role in the layoffs hasn’t been a secret. But given that it took control of Sensata and the plant well after Romney’s departure from the firm, the candidate has thus far steered clear of the controversy, only drawing protests from the workers who want him to step in and stop the plant’s closure. But according to documents detailing Romney’s finances obtained and published yesterday by Gawker, his connection to Sensata is much more direct.

Romney held a direct investment in Sensata through one fund titled “Bain Capital Fund IX, L.P.,” dated December 31, 2009, meaning he has likely financially benefited from Bain’s ownership of the company in the past, and could benefit from the plant’s closure and the outsourcing of the jobs to China. According to his 2011 personal financial disclosure, Romney still holds the Bain Capital fund that contains the Sensata investment.

Romney has a history of outsourcing jobs as the chief executive of Bain Capital. The Washington Post reported in June that under Romney’s leadership Bain “invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India.” Other companies in which the firm invested sent jobs to Mexico and other low-wage countries around the world.

While that history might be politically toxic, Romney’s proposals wouldn’t stop the outsourcing of American jobs. In fact, his plan to reform the corporate tax code by instituting a territorial tax system would make it easier for American companies to outsource jobs, while at the same time encouraging them to store even more money in offshore tax havens.

Sensata workers, meanwhile, are planning to protest Romney and Bain’s involvement in Sensata at the Republican National Convention next week.

Romney has a history of outsourcing jobs as the chief executive of Bain Capital. The Washington Post reported in June that under Romney’s leadership Bain “invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India.” Other companies in which the firm invested sent jobs to Mexico and other low-wage countries around the world.

While that history might be politically toxic, Romney’s proposals wouldn’t stop the outsourcing of American jobs. In fact, his plan to reform the corporate tax code by instituting a territorial tax system would make it easier for American companies to outsource jobs, while at the same time encouraging them to store even more money in offshore tax havens.

My job can't be sent overseas, so I don't have to worry about it.

You know what this defense of Romney reminds me of? It reminds me of how one of his buddy's at Cranbrook defended him from the Washington Post's report on his days as a high school bully:

My suspicion is that they jokingly said 'Hey, let's go cut his hair.' And went down the hall, and you know, you hold the scissors close to his ear, and you make a lot of snipping sounds, and you may traumatize the guy a little, or scare the guy a little, but no harm, no foul.

It doesn't affect me, so I don't have to worry about it.

No. The fact is that all conservatives do not always vote their own self interest.