Attacks on Romney's business past not sticking

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Attacks on Romney's business past not sticking

President Obama is losing ground in the latest polls to Republican challenger Mitt Romney, who’s pushing back against Democrats criticizing his business experience.

As the president has stepped up his attacks on Romney and his record at the private equity firm Bain Capital, Romney has indicated, during this crucial period to define himself to the electorate, he is not going to take the attacks lying down.

“He just doesn’t have a clue what to do to get this economy going. I do,” Romney asserted in an interview with Mark Halperin, of Time magazine.

Romney responded aggressively Wednesday to the Obama campaign’s attack on his work as CEO of Bain Capital and questions about his qualifications to be president.

In the Time interview, Romney turned the tables, almost scoffing at Mr. Obama’s qualifications when he ran for president in 2008.

“Right now,” Romney told Halperin, “we have an economy in trouble, and someone who’s spent their career in the economy is more suited to help fix the economy than someone who’s spent his life in politics and as a community organizer.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505267_162- ... -sticking/

Lanny Davis... far from a Obama critic writes... weights in on the Obama Bain ad... and the fact that Mayor Cory Booker got it right.

Cory Booker got it right - By Lanny Davis - 05/23/12 06:34 PM ET

The attacks on Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker (D) by the more vitriolic liberal commentators for what he said about Bain Capital on this past Sunday’s “Meet the Press” are just as indefensible as the Republican Party’s cynical and dishonest attempt to exploit and distort what the mayor actually said during the program.

The ad featured several of them blaming Romney and Bain for the lost jobs, but it omitted several facts, such as:

Mitt Romney had left Bain Capital two years before bankruptcy had been declared.

The head of Bain at the time of the GS bankruptcy decision is now a major Obama fundraiser.

Bain invested another $100 million in plant modernization and four years later the company reportedly had reached more than $1 billion in revenues.

After the company went bankrupt in 2001, the president of the plant’s union didn’t blame Bain but rather, cheap foreign imports. “We can’t compete against the steel imports that are being sold under cost,” he said.

It’s difficult to argue, even if you are a partisan Obama supporter, as I am, that this ad is not at least somewhat misleading.

http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/l ... t-it-right

Obama himself insisted that the Bain attacks were “not a distraction,” but “what this campaign is going to be about.” Maybe the Obama campaign forgot that private citizens, cities, states, public unions, private unions, corporate benefit packages and multiple other outlets rely on the investment returns generated by equity firms. Maybe president Obama should remember that our economic system is based on capitalism and not socialism. He's going to community organize himself right out of the white house.

This won't matter anyway, the Obama team just learned that when Romney was 11, he stole some money from a neighbor girl's lemonade stand. So not only can we not trust him with our money, it just proves that he also hates women. Sorry for the deflection...carry on.

Yes, we can see how well it's "not working"...

Deflect and Criticize, Pivot and Slam

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney refused to give the green light Wednesday to a full discussion of his career in private equity at Bain Capital.

Time Magazine's Mark Halperin asked Romney twice whether he would "welcome" a discussion about his time in private equity. After the first question, Romney immediately turned the conversation to President Barack Obama.

"Well of course, I'd like to also focus on his record," Romney said of the president.

After Romney ran through a number of things he disagrees with the president on, Halperin pressed a second time: "But you welcome scrutiny of your business record, is that right?"

Again, Romney did not answer directly, simply going over why his business experience is a better qualification than Obama's time as a community organizer.

"I was astonished at how quickly he pivoted. He never even really answered the question," said Steven Rattner, a former Obama adviser and private equity executive, on MSNBC later in the day.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/2 ... f=politics

He's running from it so hard, all you can see is his gluteus maximus on the horizon... If he's so proud of it, why won't he answer questions about it?

He's so good at taking credit for jobs after he wasn't there; and lies about the jobs he killed while he WAS still there... No wonder he's dodging.

LadyJazzer wrote: Yes, we can see how well it's "not working"...

Deflect and Criticize, Pivot and Slam

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney refused to give the green light Wednesday to a full discussion of his career in private equity at Bain Capital.

Time Magazine's Mark Halperin asked Romney twice whether he would "welcome" a discussion about his time in private equity. After the first question, Romney immediately turned the conversation to President Barack Obama.

"Well of course, I'd like to also focus on his record," Romney said of the president.

After Romney ran through a number of things he disagrees with the president on, Halperin pressed a second time: "But you welcome scrutiny of your business record, is that right?"

Again, Romney did not answer directly, simply going over why his business experience is a better qualification than Obama's time as a community organizer.

"I was astonished at how quickly he pivoted. He never even really answered the question," said Steven Rattner, a former Obama adviser and private equity executive, on MSNBC later in the day.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/2 ... f=politics

He's running from it so hard, all you can see is his gluteus maximus on the horizon... If he's so proud of it, why won't he answer questions about it?

He's so good at taking credit for jobs after he wasn't there; and lies about the jobs he killed while he WAS still there... No wonder he's dodging.

Because it's a non-issue... as proven by the push back the Obama campaign is getting on this tact. It's not working.

LadyJazzer wrote: Yes, we can see how well it's "not working"...

Deflect and Criticize, Pivot and Slam

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney refused to give the green light Wednesday to a full discussion of his career in private equity at Bain Capital.

Time Magazine's Mark Halperin asked Romney twice whether he would "welcome" a discussion about his time in private equity. After the first question, Romney immediately turned the conversation to President Barack Obama.

"Well of course, I'd like to also focus on his record," Romney said of the president.

After Romney ran through a number of things he disagrees with the president on, Halperin pressed a second time: "But you welcome scrutiny of your business record, is that right?"

Again, Romney did not answer directly, simply going over why his business experience is a better qualification than Obama's time as a community organizer.

"I was astonished at how quickly he pivoted. He never even really answered the question," said Steven Rattner, a former Obama adviser and private equity executive, on MSNBC later in the day.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/2 ... f=politics

He's running from it so hard, all you can see is his gluteus maximus on the horizon... If he's so proud of it, why won't he answer questions about it?

He's so good at taking credit for jobs after he wasn't there; and lies about the jobs he killed while he WAS still there... No wonder he's dodging.

Digging what...

“With regards to Bain Capital, they just put a report out about their record, the Bain Capital guys did, they noted they’ve made about 350 investments since the beginning on the firm, and of those investments, about 80 percent grew their revenues. So I’m pretty confident that the overall record of the enterprise I helped begin is pretty solid,” Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, told Fox News.

http://thehill.com/video/campaign/22929 ... vity-means

Lady Jazzer... stop leaping before you're looking.