Mitt Romney asked business owners to tell their subjects how to vote

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

May have already been posted, but I'm not going to trawl through this cesspit:

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So what is your opinion on this strategy?

[krazen1211]

Have you not noticed those public sector union lords collecting massive dues and encouraging their overpaid minions to vote for Democrats?

[Orion0]

Lol at your use of the term "subjects"
I guess anything is game to try and make Romney look like an out of touch aristocrat.

In all fairness it's a Valid strategy. Informing your employees how things would change under any administration is legal and therefore allowable. Any insistence that it's not is arguing against free speech and common sense.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Of course this shameless plutocrat would attempt such a strategy.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

He isn't asking them to tell them how to vote. He is asking them to convey the impact of another Obama term on the business they work for and thus the ability for them to continue to work there, which is dependent upon the survival of the golden goose (not surprising though that such wouldn't be understood by mostly the same people who stood behind the unions as they were making impossible demands in some cases and essentially putting their own jobs on a one way trip to Southern China.)

Mitt Romney makes enough mistakes, why is there such a need to create more where they don't exist? Hasn't he given you enough real ones, already?

[J. J.]

Very good, and very honest. 

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Have you not noticed those public sector union lords collecting massive dues and encouraging their overpaid minions to vote for Democrats?

I haven't. Do powerful union lords also fight dragons with their enchanted swords?

[LastVoter]

Have you not noticed those public sector union lords collecting massive dues and encouraging their overpaid minions to vote for Democrats?

The problem is that private business employees are underpaid you see.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I hope this receives lots of media attention and that the Obama team can build some good ads on it. I'm pretty sure most people don't appreciate being bullied into voting for someone.

[opebo]

The problem is that private business employees are underpaid you see.

Good man.

Romney's just an idiot for thinking this kind of thing is going to help him - it can only hurt.  Doesn't  he realize the common folk hate their bosses?

[J. J.]

I hope this receives lots of media attention and that the Obama team can build some good ads on it. I'm pretty sure most people don't appreciate being bullied into voting for someone.

Great adds: "Reelect me and you'll lose your job."

[Filuwaúrdjan]

He isn't asking them to tell them how to vote. He is asking them to convey the impact of another Obama term on the business they work for and thus the ability for them to continue to work there, which is dependent upon the survival of the golden goose

Impressive sophistry. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[Stranger in a strange land]

He isn't asking them to tell them how to vote. He is asking them to convey the impact of another Obama term on the business they work for and thus the ability for them to continue to work there, which is dependent upon the survival of the golden goose

Uh, it's the same thing. Since Republicans have been mostly frustrated in their attempt to practice voter intimidation at polling places, they've been forced to practice voter intimidation in the workplace.

(not surprising though that such wouldn't be understood by mostly the same people who stood behind the unions as they were making impossible demands in some cases and essentially putting their own jobs on a one way trip to Southern China.)

Romney is the one who sent jobs to China.

[King]

Good for the Lords educating the serfs on what is in their best interest.

[© tweed]

Have you not noticed those public sector union lords collecting massive dues and encouraging their overpaid minions to vote for Democrats?

I haven't. Do powerful union lords also fight dragons with their enchanted swords?

union 'bosses' also cannot wreck the lives of (or "fire") the members they don't like.

[useful idiot]

I don't think he should have done it, but telling your employees that the business will fair better under one candidate as opposed to another is a far cry from what some are suggesting, which is that Romney told employees to fire employees for not voting for him.

Unions do the same thing, and I have absolutely no problem with them doing so. Get over it...

[© tweed]

Unions do the same thing, and I have absolutely no problem with them doing so. Get over it...

it's a union's job to act in the interests of its members.  owners have no such obligation towards their workers -- in all conceivable cases, they have the opposite motivation.

[J. J.]

Unions do the same thing, and I have absolutely no problem with them doing so. Get over it...

it's a union's job to act in the interests of its members.  owners have no such obligation towards their workers -- in all conceivable cases, they have the opposite motivation.

They do not have the opposite motivation in all cases.  A happy worker might be more productive.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Unions do the same thing, and I have absolutely no problem with them doing so. Get over it...

it's a union's job to act in the interests of its members.  owners have no such obligation towards their workers -- in all conceivable cases, they have the opposite motivation.

They do not have the opposite motivation in all cases.  A happy worker might be more productive.

No.

[© tweed]

Unions do the same thing, and I have absolutely no problem with them doing so. Get over it...

it's a union's job to act in the interests of its members.  owners have no such obligation towards their workers -- in all conceivable cases, they have the opposite motivation.

They do not have the opposite motivation in all cases.  A happy worker might be more productive.

but the most productive worker of all has 6 guys starving on the street begging to take his job.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

Really, guys? One of the actual e-mails in question:

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Lol at your use of the term "subjects"

I was going to write "wage slaves" but that would've been a bit over the top.

[Napoleon]

Have you not noticed those public sector union lords collecting massive dues and encouraging their overpaid minions to vote for Democrats?

The problem is that private business employees are underpaid you see.

I'm overpaid.

[LastVoter]

Have you not noticed those public sector union lords collecting massive dues and encouraging their overpaid minions to vote for Democrats?

The problem is that private business employees are underpaid you see.

I'm overpaid.

You must be an employer then?