Something I've never understood about "Small Business" owners

[maxrandb]

Do they really think that the party supported by corporate ass-hats like the Koch Brothers give a shit about them?

Think about it. If you're the CEO of Home Depot, for example, common sense tells me that you'd do everything you could to make sure the "mom and pop" Hardware store shuttered it's doors.

Just look at Ace Hardware or Taylor Do-it Center. Try to find one of those within a 5 mile radius of a "big-box" store.

Do you think Sam Walton's kids give a "rats-ass" about the local A&P, or "small-box store"?

Small business owners that vote for corporate financed Romney might as well put a gun to their head. The corporate interests that are bankrolling the Repukes have one goal for "small business"...that goal is to put them out of business.

To me, it would be like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.

[The Magistrate]

1. Every Kitten Dreams He Is A Lion, Sir

In their hearts, they imagine themselves as the biggest thing in business, and cannot bring themselves to do, or think, anything which might foreclose some option they might have were the dream to come true....

[1StrongBlackMan]

3. Yep! And ...

Besides ... they might win the lottery!

[Hoyt]

5. Joe the Stupid "Plumber" comes to mind.

[phantom power]

2. They've been told (over and over and over) that...

*) Less Regulation == good for business
*) Lower Taxes == good for business
*) Democrats == bad for business
*) GOP == small business friend

And the uncomfortable fact is that starting with Clinton's triangulation strategery, the Dems have been pretty much validating every one of those points, either implicitly or explicitly, for 30 years.

So yes, lots of small business owners and voters in general think all of the above are true.

[YoungDemCA]

4. Small business owners are more fearful of taxes, regulation, and unions...

..than owners of larger businesses, generally speaking.

It makes sense, at some level. They have more to lose (potentially) from taxes, regulation, and unions. Or, they may be afraid they won't be able to afford those.

At the same time, there's this perception that both parties are beholden to both "big business" and "big government"-the perceived threats to small businesses. So they vote for candidates who promise "smaller government", lower taxes, balanced budgets, less regulation, etc.

Many of the Republicans in Congress, especially the Tea Partiers, are/were small business owners. Not a coincidence, IMHO.

[CBGLuthier]

6. Not to be argumentative but we have lots of Ace Hardware Stores within two miles of HD and Lowes.

in my city anyway. Glad to have them for the more unusual part needs I sometimes have.

[Cleita]

7. You are right.

As a former small business owner and working class schlub at different times. I can tell you that small businesses need as much protection from large corporations as workers need from their employers, yet many seem to think they became successful only through their hard work. It's only when a Wal-Mart or a MacDonald's moves into their territory that they see how mistaken they are.

[white_wolf]

8. I've never understood how they are considered so much better than large business.

Small business fight unions, taxes, and regulations as hard as any large business and every small mom and pop store wants to be the next Wal-mart.

[Jane Austin]

9. This very small business owner has no illusions about big business.

Liberalism fits quite nicely with my business principles.

Probably the main reason small business owners tend to conservatism is that they're too tired trying to keep the business going to do more than watch the headlines on teevee news.