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Barry Bennett wishes that he had not been so prescient. It was Bennett, more than anybody else, who most dramatically pushed Mitt Romneys stewardship of Bain Capital into the 2012 campaign. He did that as a staunch conservative trying to sidetrack Romneys drive to the Republican nomination during the South Carolina primary battle in January.
He produced King of Bain: When Mitt Romney Came to Town, a scathing 28-minute documentary that cast Bain as a soulless corporate raider and featured the faces and voices of those left jobless in the Bain wake. Under withering assault from Romney partisans and other conservatives uncomfortable with attacks on such companies, Bennett at the time warned his fellow Republicans that he was raising questions that should be answered before not after they crown Romney as their nominee. Referring to President Obamas top strategist, he predicted then that David Axelrod is going to have a heyday with this, and Republicans need to know this story before we nominate this guy.
Well, welcome to the heyday, courtesy of David Axelrod and courtesy of those many Republicans who so effectively silenced questions from Bennett and like-minded conservatives. Questions that Romney fumbled in his 1994 race for the Senate, sidestepped in his 2008 run for president and tried to ignore in the 2012 primaries have come to dominate the current phase of the GOP effort to deny Obama a second term. Recalling his January prediction, Bennett says today, Unfortunately, it has come true. Of the current attacks, he said sadly, I dont think well see the end of them.
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I love it when repubs fight amongst themselves...
antigop
(12,778 posts)When Mitt Romney came to town...
Haven't watched it so not sure what's in it.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)even when productivity is us - so why is he against a social safety net? He's admitting it isn't laziness, it is that they are suffering or can't even find jobs.
Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)I've watched the first few minutes, and it's already devastating.
Please.. take time.. everyone.. to watch this. Heartbreaking.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)THAT should be trumpeted throughout the interweave.
lindac007
(55 posts)this is the film that describes what Mitt Romney did to companies that Bain took over. It also has a little snippet about Lehman Brothers (now defunct) and filings that listed Romney as a management director or something like that in 2001. the more you watch the angrier you get. I had to shut it off after being about 1/2 way through. This guy really ought to be ashamed of himself instead of running for President, but then you have to have a conscience to feel shame.
GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)Must see post
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)worth only stated at a mere $250 million? What a heartless bunch of douche bags! The companies they bought all seemed to be stable money making businesses, good for LONG term investment. These Cats did the Richard Geer, Pretty Woman routine on them. Too bad those people are not just in the movies, or don't meet hookers with hearts of gold that get them to feel and be human.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)speedoo
(11,229 posts)just in case it gets taken down.
Obama really has not started attacking on this issue yet. Waiting until after Labor Day, is my bet.
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)downloading as MP4 now
siligut
(12,272 posts)Like the gal who said "Mitt says he is for small business, but he isn't", and her friend elbowed her and said, "You're gonna be on some hit list for that, you know."
This video is no doubt already on some hit list.
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)easy to throw back up again.
speedoo
(11,229 posts)thanks.
williesgirl
(4,033 posts)position in our government. If this is an example of how Mormons operate, they sure aren't Christian anything. The church should give back his tithing to the thousands of lives he's ruined.
sendero
(28,552 posts)... to see this video go viral.