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Flash: Mitt Romney appointed 2012 GOP Nominee for President by acclamation. Deemed so by all talk TV and radio talk yakkers. Mitt accepts nomination to serve man.

Nobody wants hard news any more. They only want things like the latest Gallup Poll, blah, blah blah. But you get the hard stuff here on the ATP.

You and I know that if Iowa and New Hampshire both were stolen overnight by a space alien from a dying world to repopulate their planet with more liberals, that at a minimum it would be three hours before anyone noticed the smoking holes.

It has happened before. Several years ago space aliens with too many liberals plunked a Nevada shaped piece of planet complete with their excess libs down on top of the home state of Nevada senator Harry Reid. Nobody noticed. Dig down 30 feet anywhere in the state and you’re liable to find the original inhabitants down there, flatter than granny’s Sunday pancakes.

But what is happening right now today is worse. It has become a big no-no to question the ethics and character of Mitt Romney and Fox News is leading the charge. Have you noticed how protective they have become of the Mitt?

The nomination process is over. Our candidate for president was decided in Iowa and New Hampshire. The other 55 states can save their primary money. It’s a win win!

Of course, as soon as Mitt receives the presumptive crown at the end of the day with scrutiny he’ll jack rabbit to the center “because it’s what you have to do to win the vast pool of undecided voters.”

They have done it to us again.

As best as I can determine, if the reports are true, Romney has in his portfolio the practice of buying businesses with the sole goal of destroying them for profit.

I happen to know that you feel about like I do. Your guts tell you at a ratio of  55/45  that you think this is ok, because it’s part of capitalism.

How would would one go about making a profit from destroying a business?I thought about it and came up with a scenario…

Suppose there is a food warehouse out there that maintains a full stock of goodies. But because their college educated CEO is a total dumb head, now they have their butt in a crack. The business, including the groceries (which are paid for) is worth conservatively ten million. But because of bad management they need a million to pay operating expenses for the coming month or two or they’ll have to shut down. File for bankruptcy.

To the rescue comes Bad Capital, an investment firm, which buys the warehouse for a neat $5 million bucks. This means the CEO is off the hook with a nice little severance package to boot.

Bad Capital has two roads they can travel. Pump in a million bucks to keep the warehouse operating, or sell off the building and assets, lock stock and barrel.

They crunch the numbers in their Microsoft spreadsheet and determine that it will take longer to make back their $5 million investment than they want to wait.

So, (While sending out happy happy memos telling the employees not to worry) they sell the building, trucks, forklifts, tow motors, groceries….everything for cost (Which just happens to be $10 million bucks), and pocket $5 million dollars profit without selling one truckload of groceries.

That’s how to buy a business, dismantle it, and make a profit.

The only thing left to do, is to sponsor a phony work fair for the employees who are out of a job now. Or maybe they don’t even do that.

I, myself, have never been the victim of a demolition scenario like the above, but I have come close.

For 14 years I was employed by a company which was sold 3 times. Each time, I and the other employees worked very hard to get the business back in the black, foregoing raises and such, so the business could be sold again. Eventually, the halls, which had once seen traffic from 50 semi-happy employees was finally emptied.

So I know the pain this sort of capitalism brings for the little guy.

Be that as it may, I, like you, defend the right of a person or business to practice this destructive capitalism, as it has been called.

However, this practice should be called SCROOGE CAPITALISM. Is it OK to do it? Yes. Is it right? No, obviously.

A man who practices this mode of business….Well, it says a lot for the man, doesn’t it?

But BEYOND this… There is ONE OTHER REASON you don’t approach business this way.

The reason my friends is something called, “What Goes Around Comes Around.”

I don’t care if you are religious or not. I’m pretty sure you are a believer in payback. Let me be the one to remind you that it is an absolute fact of nature that man pays for his actions…sooner or later. It is ALWAYS this way. We don’t know when, or how, but we do know it is inevitable.

Thus, Romney is paying now and it just so happens that the angel Gingrich is the man holding the lien. If he hadn’t chosen his destructive capitalism path back then, then you must admit, what we’re seeing today would not be happening. Refer to the documentary, “Back To The Future” for the theory of diverging paths, etc. I do.

Just goes to show you that if you have any idea of becoming president some day, if you’re a conservative, you best walk the path that is straight and narrow.

BTW, I gave my humble opinion of Romney back in October, (Which was well before I knew ANYTHING about his biz background)  when I made the observation that he reminded me of every bad CEO I never knew.

It’s suck city time, Tea Party friends. Romney would not be in the position of having to explain himself right now if he had not been so quick to (slyly) go along with the scorched earth campaign against Newt.

Newt, who was major ticked by the Romney shenanigans in Iowa is even now in the process of running his very own type of scorched earth, salted well campaign against Romney.

Unfortunately, once again the little guy loses. What WE want is to see these two giants JOIN FORCES to GET RID of Obama! Instead, it’s the Tit For Tat show. Amateur hour.

In the meantime, Obama chuckles. Plays golf and chuckles. Well, plays golf, chuckles, and possibly schemes for a brilliant October surprise for Iran. Obama loves surprises.

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Tea Party Hobbits all agree that the McCain endorsement of candidate Romney says more about the man, the plan, and the future of the Republican party if the establishment wins than just about anything else to come down the pike this election cycle.

No man ever did more to help create the Tea Party than that rascally McCain with his brilliant run for the presidency last time around when he niced Obama into the White House.

Now sit there and tell me you didn’t feel a thrill running down your Tea Party leg when you learned of McCain’s selfless endorsement of Mit.