Are ‘Bainers’ the New ‘Birthers’?

What’s the best way to deflect a political attack?

Ridicule.

It is well established that Mitt Romney left Bain to go salvage the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. It is also well established that his name remained on some SEC documents. This stems from winding down his partnership interest in Bain Capital. It is a quirk in the law. It has been well vetted. Even FactCheck.org and the Washington Post are unpersuaded by Team Obama’s hyperbole.

Really? A felon? Hey! Let’s accuse Barack Obama of being a foreign born Muslim! There’s about the same validity to both. Meet the Bainers — they are the members of Team Obama demanding proof from Mitt Romney that he is a liar or a felon. Next they’ll ask when he stopped beating his wife.

The Bainers will not take any answer that does not show Romney to be a liar or felon in the same way Birthers will take no answer other than one that shows Barack Obama is not an American citizen. In fact, pointing this out on twitter today I was barraged from both sides that Obama has still never shown his real birth certificate and Mitt Romney has still not shown his tax returns.

Also, similar to Birthers, Bainers claim they are only asking questions. Of course, the questions in both cases demonstrate a considerable separation from reality. And in the case of the Bainers, Erickson points out, there is a considerable amount of ignorance of private enterprise as well.

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/07/14/are-bainers-the-new-birthers/?singlepage=true

Obama needs to answer about the actions of Pena as a venture capitalist.

Pena is suspect on a number of levels, taking a look back at the former mayor of Denver I find it curious that DIA came to be before Pena was appointed to be the head the Department of Transportation. Turns out that the land that is now occupied by DIA was owned by the Pena family and despite findings by the DoT that that area was more susceptible to micro bursts and tornadoes than alternate locations was selected for the site of DIA anyhow. Now Pena surfaces as a major financial supporter of Barry and he is apparently getting his money through means that Barry and his ilk should be objecting to. I guess in Barry's eyes a buck is a buck no matter where it comes from.

So you say the Pena family from Texas owned the land at DIA which was in Adams County and had to be annexed by a vote of the people (you know he's not from Colorado, right?)

And please tell us about those "alternate locations" that were not chosen that you seem to know so much about. I'm really interested to hear about them since I followed the selection of DIA closely, as an aviation buff.