My Prediction: He admits staying at Bain

[Motown_Johnny]

He gives a speech modeled after Reagan's "I sold weapons to the Iranians" speech and peppers it with phrases like:

Compared to my usual workload, this was nonexistent

I attended a couple meetings and signed a few documents a year

The salary was less than 1% of my usual earnings at Bain and my workload was reduced by the same amount

I can see now that even this slight involvement, in a purely oversight capacity, should have been disclosed and I regret not being more precise in my statements



The underlying tone is "I am so freaking important that this trivial few hundred millions in deals isn't even worth remembering".





This gets him out of all the false SEC filings and the perjury issue. He then needs to own the fact that his company outsourced while he was still there. It can be spun as "I understand the global economy and anyone who doesn't isn't qualified to be President in this day and age". It won't be easy to stand up to the attacks for having cost Americans their jobs but he is going to be attacked for that even if he never moves past the denial phase.


I don't see any other path. He won't drop out and Ron Paul isn't going to beat him out of the nomination. Even a floor battle seems unlikely, although that is still possible. He can't stay in denial forever because the evidence is overwhelming. He has to do it. The only question is when. Maybe right before the Olympics, or just a few days before. This limits the news cycles that the story can dominate and by the time the Olympics end it will be old news.


At least, if I were in his position this is what I would do. Then again, I am not a lying sack of shit so expecting him to do what I would do might be the wrong approach.

[Turbineguy]

1. "But....

I didn't inhale!"

[Scuba]

2. My guess is he'll say something like "I don't care what you think or how you vote....

... the guys at Diebold/ESS/Sequoia say I'm gonna win!"

[turtlerescue1]

3. Yep, agree with you.

It will be worded and find an excuse to those "misunderstandings". Something that is just "plausible" enough to keep his friends contented.

Time will sure tell eh?

[Submariner]

4. But, he already admitted staying at Bain into 2002

to the State of Mass. to show he qualified as a resident to run for governor. Otherwise, he would be guilty of a felony for lying to the State.

He can't have it both ways.

[11 Bravo]

5. Romney would actually RATHER lie than tell the truth.

It's just a part of his DNA.

[cbdo2007]

6. I think you're right....he'll admit to the lesser crime so he won't have to release his tax returns.

which is where the really bad stuff is. He'll say this answers all the questions and will want to move on.

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. His problem is that people don't want to know how the sausage is made.

Not-Joe the Non-Plumber types lurves them some rich folk. They just don't want to know how the rich folk got to be rich - like by firing half of their community and shipping the jobs off to Mexico...

Willard knows that is the death knell. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain and all that.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. But it wouldn't absolve him from the false FEC documents.

Now do you see the conundrum that he is in?

[Motown_Johnny]

15. Don't the FEC documents say that he was still at Bain?

If so then admitting that he was still at Bain confirms the documents.


No, I don't see that conundrum.

[coalition_unwilling]

9. Oh, for the days of Watergate:

PRESIDENT: You think, you think we want to, want to go this route now? And the--let it hang out, so to speak?

DEAN: Well, it's, it isn't really that--

HALDEMAN: It's a limited hang out.

DEAN: It's a limited hang out.

EHRLICHMAN: It's a modified limited hang out.

PRESIDENT: Well, it's only the questions of the thing hanging out publicly or privately.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout

[Spazito]

10. It's too late in the 'game' for him to do that, imo...

and gain from it. Admitting he remained at Bain brings into question breach of contract with the Olympics, how did he profit through Bain and it's companies that provided services to the Olympics, etc. It also brings into question other disclosure documents he signed stating he left in 1999.

The demand for his tax returns would not be addressed were he to admit he remained at Bain. If anything, it would get louder, imo.

Romney is between a rock and a hard place due to his own actions, his own words, his own signature.

[Segami]

11. It don't believe it would absolve him from " false SEC filings and the perjury issue."

If anything, he would be admitting to some level of guilt and leaving himself exposed (without some kind of immunity deal from prosecution ) which would need to be addressed.

[WI_DEM]

12. then he's guilty of perjury

[Motown_Johnny]

13. I believe you are wrong. He swore that he was still attending meetings

in MA while living in Utah.

By admitting that he was still with Bain it confirms this testimony.

[skip fox]

14. You've got it right! But because of his mentality, his arrogance, and his meanness

he'll never to it.

At least I hope he won't.