How about THIS tasty treat from Politico?
My favorite quote:
As the man atop the enterprise — in effect, the CEO of a $1 billion start-up — Romney ultimately bears responsibility for the decisions he personally oversaw, such as the muffling of running mate Paul Ryan’s strict budget message and his own convention performance.
Follow me under the pumpkin gnocchi.
The truth is, for me at least, back in High School I was a little budding Alex P. Keaton wannabee, and I bought into the whole ideal of all things Yuppie... and God knows that whole mindset got its well-deserved comeuppance over the many years.. but this is what I will add..
I've started businesses. (Small ones.) Three of them. (That makes me an entrepreneur, if anyone's counting. ) And, besides my own little personal start-up experience, I just happened to be there, back in the day, back in... The Show. The Internet Dot-Com Bonanza.
I am not gonna talk about it but to say, there's a really good reason my geek ex and I hit it off, and our skills complimented each other. And back then, nerds like us were eminently hire-able, (ridiculously undateable) and he got totally snapped up a big deal company. And there was much opportunity for geeks like us, in that marketplace, with our skillz, for start ups. And everyone was there, building the future, creating a new reality. I tell you this ONLY to say... I totally, totally GET startups. The hunger, the vision, the drive. From the executive-side down, and the grunt-work up. Both sides.. been there. With very small and very wild numbers. Been there.
Romney is totally fucked.
I'm saying this stepping back, and just looking at the guy as a candidate...and as a start-up entrepreneur. Romney sucks. He really, really sucks. He knows nothing about boot-strapping, for all his claims to fame, this guy is Big Hat No Cattle. Amongst the 99% there are some pretty fucking ambitious, high-producing, badass overachieving titans among us in a multitude of disciplines and individual endeavors... but Mitt Romney isn't one of us, and never, ever has been. Seriously. A BILLION DOLLAR START UP? A real BOOT-STRAPPER could make twice as good with a tenth of that. Dude, I've fucking been there, in the day. Back in the BOOM. Back when ALL... (Venture Capitalists, Engineers and Marketing)... ALL were singing in harmony, "Fuck the numbers, Marketshare Rules!" Back when the country had a surplus budget. Back when there were dot-com millionaires. We were all building empires back then.
With that, and the Great Recession in mind I say this: A billion dollars, in this economy, shouldn't just buy you just this election, it should buy you 25 years of the future -and if you couldn't bring that Win home, at that price, with everything - federal and local laws, lobbyists and corporate megaliths - everything stacked in your favor -- dude, you just fucking flunked Bazillionaire CEO Oligarchy 101. Thanks for playing, here's your swift kick in the ass and have a nice day. really. Romney has every advantage that nobody has had before him in history and yet he is THAT much of a loser.
But that's what makes it all so obvious now, and why we GenXers should be automatically rejecting the bullshit this Romney guy is trying to sell: NOBODY should vote for Romney. If you ever DID build a business, if you ever even considered setting yourself up independently, if you ever crunched numbers to figure out how to be your own boss, then Romney is clearly a douche, and his policies DO NOT help you and your business. YOU can do the math that he can't be bothered to do. Fuck seeing his taxes (though the fact we can't shows he's nothing but a snake-eyes) this guy has never, never built a business. BIG HAT NO CATTLE.
And it's about time that voters wake up and smell the coffee.