Romney’s Bain Train(wreck)
Comment by Jason330 on 15 January 2012 at 6:49 pm:
Is it team Obama’s 11th dimensional vulcan chess that got the GOP to pick Romney? The way this is playing out, you have to admit that it is a possibility.
I also remember saying something about how Bain Capital sounded like a company headed by a comic book villain. Team Obama could not have concocted more terrible optics for Romney. Maybe if, instead of a mafia style bust out operation, Bain sold dog meat labeled as beef? Only maybe though.
Too bad we have a suck-ass press that is going to try and pretend that this is a horse race.
Sadly, Romney was their best choice. Don’t you remember their other choices? Bachmann? Perry? Herman Cain? Santorum? Santorum almost won the damn thing. TRUMP??? All comic book characters themselves.
Huntsman might have had a shot.
Tim Pawlenty left early, but would have been serious. I think the real candidates knew better than to run against a popular incumbent.
The question remains: Was Romney properly vetted by the R’s?
Something every campaign at the national level tries to do is to conduct opposition research on their own guy. So that (a) they can anticipate possible lines of attack; and (b) find out what skeletons are rattling around in the closet.
Romney had better get ahead of this stuff soon, or he’s looking at a political Bataan death march.
He’s looking more and more like a guy with great wealth who has spent his life doing nothing but pursuing greater wealth regardless of who got hurt. As it turns out, those who got hurt were almost all American workers. Even with all the SuperPAC money in the world, he can’t sell that to the American people.
“Was Romney properly vetted by the R’s?” He’s been running since 2007, and they consider lying to the SEC a virtue.
Something every campaign at the national level tries to do is to conduct opposition research on their own guy. So that (a) they can anticipate possible lines of attack; and (b) find out what skeletons are rattling around in the closet.
Newt did exactly that, but Republicans didn’t heed the warning. I guess they figured FOX and Rush and PAC money and Dem Cory Booker types would make it all go away.
I guess Newt taught them that the guy who BRINGS the Bain attack loses. But that only works inside the Republican reality bubble.
And Ed Rendell wants you to know he thinks the Bain attacks are counterproductive.
Hey Ed Rendell, lying to the SEC is a felony.
Ed Rendell was DNC chairman for that 2000 election we should have won. I see a DNC chairmanship in Cory Booker’s future.
Gore ran a terrible campaign.
Here’s what Romney said on CNN yesterday in, believe it or not, denying that he was involved with Bain after 1999:
“I was the owner of an entity that is filing that information.”
That entity, Bain, filed that information with, wait for it, the Securities and Exchange Commission in the form of a sworn affidavit.
So, presumably, either the information provided by the entity was false, or Romney is lying.
Here’s a hint. One statement was in the form of a sworn affidavit. The other was made, not under oath, by Romney on five different TV shows. You do the math.
BTW, speaking of Gore, Romney has perhaps even a worse tin ear than Gore did. Remember “no defining legal authority”? “I was the owner of an entity that is filing that information” could well be equally memorable in the same way.
Meanwhile, the BEST that Romney can hope for in this ‘defining the candidate’ phase of the campaign is that he technically was not in violation of any laws. If I’m Obama, I explain that that’s why the laws need to be changed: So that multibillionaires can’t send tens of thousands of jobs to China and Mexico while hiding their gains in off-shore accounts. That’s every bit as bad as how the Rethugs defined Michael Dukakis, and the results are likely to be the same.
One thing Romney can’t Etch-A-Sketch his way out of:
“Excuse me, Mr. Romney, but I believe this is your signature….”
All of his problems arise from the fact that Romney does not want to own the outsourcing of jobs (which made him ass loads of money) accomplished by Bain.
He should just own the outsourcing and say “, that’s right – I’m rich you poor ass motherfuckers, suck my dick! “.
He wouldn’t lose support among teabags if he owned it like that.