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NRaleighLiberal

(60,024 posts)
Thu Oct 4, 2012, 06:25 PM Oct 2012

I've figured out my intense dislike of Mitt...he reminds me of the worst of the CEOs

in the various companies I've worked for. The arrogance, over the top wealth, flaunting, distortions and lies, smarminess, rudeness - and now that I've retired from big pharma and no longer have to be exposed to such bullshit, Mitt is like a bad dream return to that sort.

No thanks.....legends in their own mind only, yet somehow they find themselves "running" things (usually into the ground).

The debate "performance" only sealed it (or more appropriately buried it).

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I've figured out my intense dislike of Mitt...he reminds me of the worst of the CEOs (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Oct 2012 OP
If he were the prez and found out that his ideas weren't worth a hill of beans then he would 2on2u Oct 2012 #1
Many CEO's don't become CEO's because they're nice people; they WestSeattle2 Oct 2012 #2
 

2on2u

(1,843 posts)
1. If he were the prez and found out that his ideas weren't worth a hill of beans then he would
Thu Oct 4, 2012, 06:38 PM
Oct 2012

have a meltdown the likes of which he has most likely never experienced.... and while that might be fun to watch, I don't want to put him in the driver's seat for this small pleasure. Smarminess, yes, arrogant yes, presidential material, NOT ON YOUR LIFE.

WestSeattle2

(1,730 posts)
2. Many CEO's don't become CEO's because they're nice people; they
Thu Oct 4, 2012, 07:10 PM
Oct 2012

reach that pinnacle because they have no loyalties, moral compasses, and extraordinarily flexible ethics. Their path to the top is littered with the careers of others they trashed in their journey.

Karma can be a real bitch.

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