Monday, October 05, 2009
Our glory
Which Republican presidential candidate said this?
"I'm in business and proud of it. Nobody can make me soft-pedal any fact in my business career. After all, business is our way of life, our achievement, our glory."
Damn straight.
14 Comments:
By 
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Mon Oct 05, 01:24:00 AM:
Trick question? I'm saying no one has.
Link, over
By , at
Mon Oct 05, 01:31:00 AM:
Wendell Willkie.
Link, corrected
By , at
Mon Oct 05, 01:55:00 AM:
Herbert Hoover.
Wasn't Willkie a democrat?
Btw, there is one area where you can soft-pedal in business: raising capital in the capital markets through public offerings. Last year was all about that.
By , at
Mon Oct 05, 09:40:00 AM:
But profit, as in "the for-profit medical establishment" is now a dirty word among the socialist left and right.
How far we have fallen.
By , at
Mon Oct 05, 10:42:00 AM:
Fun! There have been a lot of Republican candidates. If I were to take a wild guess, it would not be Hoover, who pretty much had a career in government, but Calvin Coolidge.
M.E.
By 
MoonPie, at
Mon Oct 05, 04:05:00 PM:
By MoonPie, at
Mon Oct 05, 04:06:00 PM:
Oops, not a Republican. Never mind.
By , at
Mon Oct 05, 04:58:00 PM:
George H.W. Bush
Just a wild stab in the dark.
When you think about it, not many big time Republicans were actually IN any kind of business, let alone successful.
Eisenhower was a career soldier, Reagan was an actor, Nixon was a lawyer and a lifetime politician, ditto Ford.
TR was also a lifetime politician, although he did lots of other things, like ranching (part time). But he wasn't exactly a patron of "business".
-David
By , at
Mon Oct 05, 06:23:00 PM:
It has the sound of the 1920's or 1930's. I think business has been so demonized and villified recently that even a republican would not say that today. I'll go with Coolidge.
By TigerHawk, at
Mon Oct 05, 08:11:00 PM:
Willkie it was. And, yes, he had been a Democrat, but was perhaps the most prestigious opponent of FDR, who demonized Willkie's business, the growth industry of his era, the electric utilities.
By , at
Tue Oct 06, 12:46:00 AM:
By , at
Tue Oct 06, 02:10:00 PM:
I'm still going with Mitt Romney.
By , at
Tue Oct 06, 03:16:00 PM:
Huckabee said "Mitt Romney looks like the guy who fires you" and he's right. In a general election Romney will get his ass kicked, unless we're in a total financial meltdown.
Palin would win a Republican straw poll today -- and -- has promise -- but won't be ready by 2012. She too could lose in a general, even to Obama.
The Republicans need someone else.
By Noumenon, at
Tue Oct 06, 03:19:00 PM:
I'm going to third anonymous's vote, leaving the thread consensus at three votes for Mitt Romney, two for Coolidge and TH bringing up the rear with his Willkie theory.
