No, that's not a typo, Think Progress has a piece about how Mitt Romney told employers on a conference call of the National Federation of Independent Business to emphasize the importance of this election to their employees and how they should vote.
I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections. And whether you agree with me or you agree with President Obama, or whatever your political view, I hope — I hope you pass those along to your employees. Nothing illegal about you talking to your employees about what you believe is best for the business, because I think that will figure into their election decision, their voting decision and of course doing that with your family and your kids as well.
Listen at 26:44:
And of course there's been some mention of
employers telling their employees that if Obama wins they'll lose their jobs.
So where did this come from? It came from Romney himself and his campaign, it wasn't spontaneous from the employers, but it was encouraged from the campaign and not just staff, but from the candidate himself.
In this kind of economy people have enough to worry about when it comes to keeping their jobs and now they have this hanging over their heads? So, this is who you want sitting in the Oval Office? Someone who urges employers to tell their employees how to vote? Desperation of the worst kind.
You need to vote as your employer tells you to or you will lose your job. Boy, he's a piece of work.
And by the way, the reason why Romney hasn't been talking about how he'd get the economy back, you know those pesky details of his tax cuts, is because he'd spend like a drunken sailor, that's how. It's why he wants to spend so much on defense. Republicans know that's how you stimulate the economy even if he can't come out and say it. He would run up the deficit, just like any other Republican President has and cut taxes so low that the deficit would grow faster than any binder full of women he'd ever seen.