Romney Has A Big Mess in Bain

There will be no burying the lead with a Friday afternoon press release for one Willard Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for President of The United States. You see Mitt will spend his Friday afternoon giving what I call emergency interviews with five television networks about his time spent as CEO of Bain Capital.

On Thursday The Boston Globe released a damaging story about disputes over Romney's exit from Bain. Romney for political purposes has always maintained that he left Bain in February of 1999, however evidence has emerged that Romney really left the company in 2002 to run The Salt Lake City Olympics of that year.

This is important because Romney desperately wants to have his political cake and eat it too. He is gladly eager to take the credit for the jobs that were created by Bain during that time period, yet freely deflects criticism concerning jobs that were outsourced by the company over the same time by saying I was long gone by then.

This would be a much easier tight rope for Mittens to walk if he wasn't a one trick political pony who was running for the highest office in the land. From day one Romney has made his experience in the private sector his calling card for being elected the 45^th President of the United States. Romney has chided President Obama for being a community organizer and not knowing how the real economy works, and he has said all of this while being under the assumption that the President's team should not take a look at that private sector record and expose it for what it really is.

On a Conference call on Thursday, the brilliant Stephanie Cutter a deputy campaign manager for the President summed this whole situation up by saying. “Either Mitt Romney, through his own words and his own signature, was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the S.E.C., which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people.”

Predictably the Romney campaign responded in outrage, because of their inability to explain their candidates silence on the issue. Matt Rhoades a campaign manager for Romney said “President Obama’s campaign hit a new low today when one of its senior advisers made a reckless and unsubstantiated charge to reporters about Mitt Romney that was so over the top that it calls into question the integrity of their entire campaign,”.

For the record Stephanie Cutter never called anyone a felon, nor did she say Mitt Romney broke the law. The Romney campaign really does live in a bubble where any legitimate question asked by the President and his team is an unfair attack. I can question your record at any time Mr. President, but you have to stay away from mind.

Romney also doesn't mind evoking the memory of his late father George Romney, the former Governor of Michigan. He ofter remembers him as a man of principle, who was always willing to do the right thing. Can you imagine the conversation father and son would be having if Sr. was still with us.

George Romney set the standard for Presidential candidates releasing their tax returns, when he released twelve years worth in anticipation of his 1968 run for President. Mitt on the other the hand has only offered up a year and a half continuing to lead to speculation that he is hiding something. The natural thing to do would be release the tax returns, and put all of the questions to rest.

Romney is the epitome of the negative campaigner who complains about negative campaining. Every thing the President has said about Bain up until this point has been legit. Romney meanwhile has offered up some tall tales about the President's record that would make the average fiction writer blush. There is “Obamacare is the largest tax increase in the history of the U.S.” Or “The President said that the stimulus would hold unemployment under 8%” or “Obama apologizes for America all over the world”. Romney never met a lie didn't like including the one about Condolezza Rice being his V.P. For him to complain about the Bain ads is rich, pun intended.

If you injected the Republicans with some sort of truth serum they would tell you there is now some buyer's remorse with Romney. It's almost like they went the Sarah Palin route and didn't vet the guy. Also for Romney, how in the hell can you be running for President the last six years and not close offshore bank accounts and sure up whether or not you left the company that was offshoring jobs at the time you initially said you did.

This whole issue just continues the narrative of Mitt Romney out of touch rich guy. A man who might be a hell of a genius in terms of making money even if it is at the expense of working class Americans. That is why this man shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the White House.