The Breaking Romney Story

Riot · #1 07-13-2012, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by bigrun

You mean like he did at the NAACP convention?

Why would you go into a place where 25% of the demographic will benefit from the ACA, and you tell them you'll take that healthcare away, and you call it the GOP slur, "Obamacare" to their faces for good measure?

'Cause you are cruising for "every vote"? ROFLMAO Hardly. You're being a deliberate douche.

I still think Mitt's team is more inept than cunning. Rove and Crossroads is cutthroat and nasty, but I think Mitt's guys are just incompetent. They've let this Bain thing drag on and on. It's amateur.

Romney just met with Cheney. Let's see what Mr. Evil Politics Cheney told him to do about this Bain disaster.

bigrun · #2 07-13-2012, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Riot

Why would you go into a place where 25% of the demographic will benefit from the ACA, and you tell them you'll take that healthcare away, and you call it the GOP slur, "Obamacare" to their faces for good measure?

'Cause you are cruising for "every vote"? ROFLMAO Hardly. You're being a deliberate douche.

I still think Mitt's team is more inept than cunning. Rove and Crossroads is cutthroat and nasty, but I think Mitt's guys are just incompetent. They've let this Bain thing drag on and on. It's amateur.

Romney just met with Cheney. Let's see what Mr. Evil Politics Cheney told him to do about this Bain disaster.

Probably tell him to shoot them in the face...

Riot · #3 07-13-2012, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by bigrun

Probably tell him to shoot them in the face...

I can't wait to see how Romney explains this. This guy blatantly lies more than any presidential candidate I've seen, even John Edwards. And the reason Romney is lying about this is so stupid ... it's simply so the Obama campaign can't nail him for outsourcing jobs to China, and to try avoiding to show his tax returns. He's denying he was CEO of Bain when Bain did nasty stuff.

Of course, when you can't run on your achievements as Governor of a state you didn't really live in, all that's left is, "I'm a good businessman". He was a good investment manager. He didn't develop companies - he created profit for investors. Different thing.

4:30 headlines: more outright proof Romney has lied:

POISON PEN: ROMNEY AT WORK DURING 'RETIREMENT
Signed Docs Show Romney Doing Bain Work

Romney Camp Last August: He Did Not Have 'Any Active Role In Any Way'

PANIC? Mitt Schedules Media Blitz
Interviews With Major Networks, CNN, Fox News... 'Mess'

Obama's Real Target

Dem Governor: McCain Saw Romney's Tax Files – And Chose Palin

Riot · #4 07-13-2012, 03:59 PM

I can't believe how this guy lies ... and can't even cover his tracks. This isn't the private business world. This is politics, where reporters are all over your most intimate secrets. How could Romney think he could get away with this?

Posted late today:

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WASHINGTON -- Between 1999 and 2001, Mitt Romney, then the CEO of Bain Capital, signed at least six documents that the private equity firm filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The documents run in direct contradiction to a claim that Romney has made repeatedly: that he had nothing to do with Bain, and therefore no responsibility for Bain investments, during that period.

It's also a claim he made in August 2011 on the federal disclosure form he filed as part of his presidential bid. Romney didn't leave any wiggle room:

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"Mr. Romney retired from Bain Capital on February 11, 1999 to head the Salt Lake Organizing Committee [for the 2002 Winter Olympics].

Since February 11, 1999, Mr. Romney has not had any active role with any Bain Capital entity and has not been involved in the operations of any Bain Capital entity in any way."

That is false.

SEC files include at least six instances of Romney signing documents after February 1999, proving -- unless the signatures were forged -- that his claim to not have "been involved in the operations of any Bain Capital entity in any way" is wrong.

Clip-Clop · #5 07-13-2012, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Riot

I can't wait to see how Romney explains this. This guy blatantly lies more than any presidential candidate I've seen, even John Edwards. And the reason Romney is lying about this is so stupid ... it's simply so the Obama campaign can't nail him for outsourcing jobs to China, and to try avoiding to show his tax returns. He's denying he was CEO of Bain when Bain did nasty stuff.

Of course, when you can't run on your achievements as Governor of a state you didn't really live in, all that's left is, "I'm a good businessman". He was a good investment manager. He didn't develop companies - he created profit for investors. Different thing.

4:30 headlines: more outright proof Romney has lied:

POISON PEN: ROMNEY AT WORK DURING 'RETIREMENT
Signed Docs Show Romney Doing Bain Work

Romney Camp Last August: He Did Not Have 'Any Active Role In Any Way'

PANIC? Mitt Schedules Media Blitz
Interviews With Major Networks, CNN, Fox News... 'Mess'

Obama's Real Target

Dem Governor: McCain Saw Romney's Tax Files – And Chose Palin

How anyone avoids mentioning that the head of Obama's jobs council is Jeffrey Immelt and somehow this is a problem for Romney? A private citizen at the time of this egregious and evil outsourcing. When will the President be asked about this in an open forum?

Riot · #6 07-13-2012, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Clip-Clop

How anyone avoids mentioning that the head of Obama's jobs council is Jeffrey Immelt and somehow this is a problem for Romney? A private citizen at the time of this egregious and evil outsourcing. When will the President be asked about this in an open forum?

Why haven't you started a thread about it?

Riot · #7 07-13-2012, 06:10 PM

Well, I don't think his new handlers gave him very good advice to avoid answering and try and attack Obama, because he's already being slammed anew about not acknowledging the truth by the media.

For god's sakes - does this guy not realize that campaigns have been lost for far less than a little white lie?

Fess up, man, and be done with it, take 48 hours of noise and heat, before October! You'll be hammered from here until eternity now that you chose not to answer after you scheduled the massive press availability!

My god, this is unbelievable. The GOP has good campaign operatives. Why is the GOP and RNC not helping this man? The national party is risking all downticket spots by abandoning Romney to the wolves and his own devices!

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Mitt Romney told CBS News‘s Jan Crawford Friday evening that he did not attend Bain Capital meetings after he left the company in February of 1999 to run the Winter Olympics. But this answer appears to contradict sworn testimony he delivered in 2002 “as part of a hearing to determine whether he had sufficient residency status in Massachusetts to run for governor”:

– 2002: “[T]here were a number of social trips and business trips that brought me back to Massachusetts, board meetings, Thanksgiving and so forth.”

– 2012: “I was in Salt Lake City for three straight years. I don’t recall even coming back once to go to a Bain or management meeting. We were, I was out there running the Olympics and it was a full time job, I can tell you that.”

“Jan, I had no involvement with the management of Bain Capital after 1999,” Romney insisted on Friday.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/20...t-bain-tenure/