In an unseemly display of low road politics, opponents and partisan pundits jumped on the quote, happy to take it out of context and twist it to show what an evil job destroyer the Mittster is.
In a pretty meanspirited act, Gingrich even had the quote converted to a cell phone ringtone .
Well Mitt you deserved it. You got the same thing you did when you intentionally malquoted Obama, attributing him to a statement which was 100% opposite of his stand (he was actually quoting a McCain staffer at the time).
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Apparently "two wrongs make a right" ... or "turnabout is fair play" ... or, more to the point, "capitalism sucks".
Mitt could have said "I don't like to fire people (companies), but if they're not doing the job, then sometimes it's necessary," and not sound like a dick - or make capitalism sound like evil incarnate. What he actually said may have been revealing of his true nature, after all, to be really good at his game, you need to like what you're doing, and his game requires lots of firing of people.
Rick, have you ever had to fire anyone? It's easier if you don't think of them as people.
I have. But not thinking about them as people made it palatable, not likable.
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