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January 12, 2012

Andrew C. McCarthy on the Mitt-Bain Movie

In a nutshell, McCarthy calls it shameful and much less a discredit to Mitt Romney than to people who are sullying themselves by promoting it and drawing "vulture" narratives out of it:

It plays on every juvenile prejudice in the book (Romney heckled, hands counting wads of cash, Romney speaking French, Romney statements out of context repeated again and again) It is wildly inaccurate even in what little it tells us about Bain (two of the four companies were not under Romney's direction when the job losses occurred). Moreover, we learn very little even about the four companies profiled (like whether they would have survived had Bain not intervened) -- all we hear is that, because of Mitt Romney personally, parents had to raid the college funds and skip meals so their children could eat. I'm surprised there wasn't a Romney look-alike pushing a wheelchaired granny off the cliff -- maybe she could even have landed on the Paul Ryan wheelchaired granny.

[...] Left-wing blogs and Mitt Romney's presidential-primary rivals -- and who can tell those apart this week? -- have charged that Bain & Company, the firm Romney once headed, was the beneficiary of not one but two bailouts: one from the FDIC, and one from the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. These allegations are nakedly false.

[...] Instead of Rinbey's opponents calling him to account for his health-policy mistakes, they're going after him for his ... successful business career?

[...] Romney is a candidate uniquely suited to defending the role of free enterprise in the American economy. When liberal politicians and journalists argue that layoffs are cruel, and that capitalism is unfair, Mitt Romney can speak to how dealing frontally with a business's problems can lead to better and more numerous jobs over the long term. He can speak not merely in abstract philosophical terms, but using the real-world examples from his successes and his failures.

The video titled When Mitt Romney Came to Town discusses several Bain Capital companies that eventually went bankrupt or were shut down. What follows is a series of errors ...

Posted by Hyscience at January 12, 2012 8:24 PM

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