Krugman explains that a country is not a Company

[Marzupialis]

"The truth is that even if Mr. Romney had been a classic captain of industry, a present-day Andrew Carnegie, his career wouldn’t have prepared him to manage the economy. A country is not a company (despite globalization, America still sells 86 percent of what it makes to itself), and the tools of macroeconomic policy — interest rates, tax rates, spending programs — have no counterparts on a corporate organization chart. Did I mention that Herbert Hoover actually was a great businessman in the classic mold?"

more http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/opinion/off-and-out-with-mitt-romney.html?_r=1

[Cosmocat]

6. Have THAT fight

Ds should absolutely scream about this.

[LiberalFighter]

10. He would probably clean out the money from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)

and transfer it to his account.

[rfranklin]

2. George Bush Jr. was our first MBA businessman president...he really did well didn't he?

Why not repeat the mistake?

[Cosmocat]

7. They spent the 90s balling about MBAs

and how THAT is what you want in the White House running things.

You don't hear that anymore.

Oddly, you don't hear the "liberal media" crowing about how much of a flop it turned out to be.

[90-percent]

3. Simple

President Romney would be GW Bush's third term.

At least Bush was a self deprecating idiot. Mitt ain't got no sense of humor about himself at all.

-90% Jimmy

[PotatoChip]

4. Another rwing meme that really has *got* to go.

I never understood why pukes are always so impressed by successful businessmen. Or why they think that qualifies someone to run a state or country.

[Scootaloo]

5. It makes perfect sense...

If you understand the way they think.

If you think a republican - ANY republican - wants what's best for the entire country... then you don't understand how they think.

[PotatoChip]

9. Why are you attacking me?

I understand how republicans think- came from a rwing fundie family, in fact. Despite that, (actually because of that) I cast my first vote at age 18 for Walter Mondale, never wavering from straight ticket, Democratic voting in all of the years since.

Yes, I know all too well how republicans 'think.' That is why I disagree with one thing that you said... IMO, most republicans *do* believe that their candidates are what is 'best for the country', however misguided.

I just don't know why they think that their best choices for candidates include people whose only claim to fame is being a businessman, and/or an evangelical christian.

[LibertyBell7]

8. The most important definer of "company" is missed here...

Most companies are, by hierarchical definition, top-down dictatorships. No democracy to be found here. The largest of them — the incorporateds — are top-down oligarchies.

When wingers profess that countries should be run like companies, this most basic truth about company structure must never be forgotten. All other arguments are noise intended to distract from that core truth of what the wingers actually want, and distract from the core truth there is a real revolution against democracy being waged by those professing this change.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. I'm glad that you mentioned that

Companies aren't "bipartisan" organizations that generally (have to) rely on "compromise" with competing interests to get things done.