tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post2356509355185982943..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-2619341799792493672012-11-12T13:48:44.823-05:002012-11-12T13:48:44.823-05:00This is perfectly plausible to me. I had a friend ...This is perfectly plausible to me. I had a friend leave the Gingrich campaign the very night he won the SC primary -- perhaps the only night in the last four years in which significant numbers of Americans thought Gingrich might have a shot at the White House -- because it had become clear to him that the consultants were lining their pockets at the campaign donors' expense.Lex Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05364989805025038306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-89665417626652809392012-11-12T09:15:22.817-05:002012-11-12T09:15:22.817-05:00It's not *just* about not being bothered to ma...It's not *just* about not being bothered to make a better product. It's about having to make a product your customers will buy. Back in the mortgage-bubble days, anyone who didn't participate had lower returns, which meant their bosses fired them, or their customers pulled out their money and invested with people who had higher returns.<br /><br />I'm betting on a similar effect here: produce results showing your client sucks, and watch them order their next set of polls from someone else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-47220227634852861792012-11-10T18:50:07.401-05:002012-11-10T18:50:07.401-05:00There is really a perfect ironic justice in this. ...There is really a perfect ironic justice in this. The whole election feels that way to me, in this respect as well as in the Rs' finally buying, and dying by, the same alternate-reality BS ("we're gonna ride momentum & win") that they've been selling to everyone else since 1980. BHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12991272246814476124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-91433998250301920632012-11-10T15:07:52.590-05:002012-11-10T15:07:52.590-05:00Look, should anyone be surprised that the republic...Look, should anyone be surprised that the republican party doe not vet consultants any better than VP candidates?Pallihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08169996293398418124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-34487168906114649672012-11-10T14:38:39.412-05:002012-11-10T14:38:39.412-05:00No. This is what capitalism always is. The bette...No. This is what capitalism always is. The better mouse trap thingy--that's the market, which has always existed; not capitalism. Capitalism is making money off money. Capitalists want us to confuse the market with capitalism. I wonder why.Raenellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12031586239927965106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-54533951504762297632012-11-10T13:35:53.422-05:002012-11-10T13:35:53.422-05:00Oh-oh!
Grifting money from RICH rubes usually has ...Oh-oh!<br />Grifting money from RICH rubes usually has some rather serious and dramatic circumstances.<br /><br />Look at poor Bernie Madoff:<br />If, in his Ponzi Scheme, he'd stolen upwards of $50 Billion from the poor and middle class, he'd still be having champagne wishes and caviar dreams - and not just at night, in his lonely jail cell.<br /><br />I can easily see some people disappearing - and not all of them willingly, running away to another country with their gains.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com