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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts) Fri Sep 30, 2016, 04:04 PM Sep 2016

Sorry Republicans, But Businesspeople Make Horrible Candidates

Mitt Romney, George W. Bush, and now Donald Trump. All of these men were lauded as “businessmen”, yet they failed as politicians. Why do Republicans keep going back to the same polluted well?

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Sorry Republicans, But Businesspeople Make Horrible Candidates (Original Post) GoLeft TV Sep 2016 OP

No kidding. Look what Rick "The Dictator" Snyder has done &continues to do to us in Michigan. catbyte Sep 2016 #1

I call him Governor Spreadsheet seamonkey58 Oct 2016 #5

Especially lousy businesspeople C_U_L8R Sep 2016 #2

Historically, I think they make shitty Presidents too...nt Wounded Bear Sep 2016 #3

Government isn't supposed to make a profit..... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2016 #4

EXACTLY. The government is NOT a business. Having knowledge about legislation and BigDemVoter Oct 2016 #6

catbyte

(34,384 posts)

1. No kidding. Look what Rick "The Dictator" Snyder has done &continues to do to us in Michigan.

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Fri Sep 30, 2016, 04:06 PM

Sep 2016

seamonkey58

(19 posts)

5. I call him Governor Spreadsheet

Reply to catbyte (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 1, 2016, 08:46 PM

Oct 2016

C_U_L8R

(45,002 posts)

2. Especially lousy businesspeople

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Fri Sep 30, 2016, 04:12 PM

Sep 2016

Like Trump

Wounded Bear

(58,653 posts)

3. Historically, I think they make shitty Presidents too...nt

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Fri Sep 30, 2016, 04:20 PM

Sep 2016

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

4. Government isn't supposed to make a profit.....

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Fri Sep 30, 2016, 05:20 PM

Sep 2016

Someone explain to me how the Navy can be run to make a profit.

BigDemVoter

(4,150 posts)

6. EXACTLY. The government is NOT a business. Having knowledge about legislation and