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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/the-romney-campaigns-strange-response-to-bain-attacks/2012/05/14/gIQAnBSDPU_blog.htmlPosted at 02:11 PM ET, 05/14/2012 TheWashingtonPost The Romney campaigns strange response to Bain attacks
By Greg Sargent
Today, the Obama campaign began airing an ad attacking Mitt Romney over layoffs at Bain Capital, which the Obama team is holding up as emblematic of Romneys economic philosophy. Byron York reports that the Romney campaign has settled on a line of pushback compare what Romney did at Bain to what Obama did with the auto companies.
Few remember today how many (non-union) workers lost their jobs in the Obama administrations handling of the matter, York writes of the Romney camps counterargument. York adds: in the auto bailouts, whatever else one thinks of them, Barack Obama pushed for downsizing and laying people off in a failing business he had taken over.
If this is indeed the comparison the Romney campaign plans to pursue, its a curious one. After all, Obama didnt personally profit when he bailed out the auto companies. By contrast, Bain walked away with at least $12 million in profits after its episode involving GST Steel, the company that is the subject of Obamas ads. More broadly, Jon Chait notes: Romneys career produced huge gains for owners of capital, and the auto bailout forced them to swallow huge losses.
Beyond this, whats really curious about this counterattack is that it only helps underscore the philosophical difference between the two that the Obama campaign is trying to highlight with the Bain attacks.
GoCubsGo
(32,099 posts)This is the asshole who wanted the whole industry to die, and is on record for saying so. And, he's criticizing the President because a handful of jobs were lost with the bail-out, while millions would be unemployed had he gotten his way? Is this a joke?
catbyte
(34,514 posts)safeinOhio
(32,746 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)of his own BS.
That's why he makes those needling remarks like "these cookies are from 7/11" and "you really spent the big bucks" on those $2 NASCAR raincoats -- because in the corporate world when the boss says that stuff the underlings laugh and nobody tells him he is an asshole and not funny. In the corporate world you can say total nonsense like "my campaign is not run by lobbyists" or "I have never been to Washington" and people around you would call that 'leadership.'
These types surround themselves with sycophants and turbo charge their own group think. I'm going to guess that no one on team Romney could stand up and say 'wait, if we say Detroit, they will hit us with 'let detroit go bankrupt' again.'
Classic corporate-style group think.
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)SDjack
(1,448 posts)The Obama campaign should back off a little. Once he is nominated, then "Bain" him.
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)Hit them hard and hit them early is the way to go.
Don