GOP Front-Runners Differ on the Occupy Movement (ContributorNetwork)

In November 2012, one of the current GOP presidential field is looking to send President Barack Obama off to reoccupy Chicago, leaving room for one of them to occupy the White House. Here is what the GOP front-runners have said publicly about the Operation movements going on around the country:

Mitt Romney

At an event in Hopkins, N.H., on Tuesday, Romney said, "We have a very capable financial services sector that makes loans and allows business to start and thrive. Are there bad actors on Wall Street? Absolutely. And are there bad actors on Main Street? Absolutely. All the streets are connected -- Wall Street's connected to Main Street. And so finding a scapegoat, finding someone to blame, in my opinion isn't the right way to go." Romney went on to criticize the government for pushing home ownership to the point "that financial institutions make loans to people who couldn't pay them back."

Rick Perry

While Perry has not addressed Occupy Wall Street directly, he said at the recent Value Voters Summit: "You know liberals are now pointing the finger of blame at successful employers under the guise of fairness, but when they utter phrases like 'fair share' you just know, they're once again playing fast and furious with the truth. And the truth is you can't rev up the engine of economic growth by heaping higher taxes on job creators, you can't spread success by punishing it, you can't unite our country by dividing it. The answer to our troubles lies in a positive optimistic vision with policies rooted in American Exceptionalism."

Ron Paul

At a National Press Club Event on Oct. 5, Paul supported the Occupy movement saying ,"As far as the federal government involved in the practice of civil disobedience in the various states, it's really up to the states to deal with it. I think that civil disobedience, if everybody knows exactly what they are doing, is a legitimate effort. It's been done in this country for many grievances. Some people end up going to jail for this. But to speak for a special group and say, 'Yeah, I like what they are doing or they are not doing,' but what I want to do is try to sort it out and tell people why they are struggling and that this was a predictable event."

Paul also said "I can argue the case for their right to express their outright frustration with what is going on. Some are liberals and some are conservatives and some are libertarians and some are strict constitutionalists. And if you read carefully over what I've written over the past 10 or 15 years, I talk a lot about this, that eventually we will go bankrupt."

Herman Cain

To the Social Conservatives Convention in Washington, Cain said, "They are not working on the right problem. Wall Street didn't write those failed policies. Wall Street didn't spend a trillion dollars. You can demonstrate all you want on Wall Street. The problem is 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. If you never work on the right problem, you'll never get the right answer."

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