Romney's Clear-as-Mud Bain Explanation

[jaxx]

Romney's Clear-as-Mud Bain Explanation
By Molly Ball
Jul 13 2012, 9:36 PM ET

Mitt Romney gave a round of television interviews late Friday in an attempt to beat back the escalating firestorm over when he actually stopped running Bain Capital, a sign his campaign was reluctantly acknowledging the potential political damage from the issue. But despite getting asked more or less the same question by interviewers from ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC, Romney didn't have a simple answer as to what his role at Bain was between 1999 and 2002. Take this passage from his interview with CBS's Jan Crawford:

CRAWFORD: But you were the sole owner? I mean, how should we be thinking about this? What was your role? You were the sole owner until 2002?

ROMNEY: I was the owner of a, of the general partnership but there were investors which included pension funds and various entities of all kinds that owned the, if you will, the investments of the firm. But I was the owner of an entity which was a management entity. That entity was one which I had ownership of until the time of the retirement program was put in place. But I had no responsibility whatsoever after February of '99 for the management or ownership - management, rather, of Bain Capital.

<..> The problem for Romney, though, is that the tax question inevitably boils down to, "If he has nothing to hide, why doesn't he just show us his taxes?" The answer to that question is that Romney has never claimed to have nothing to hide. In the returns we've already seen, there was plenty that Romney would have preferred to keep hidden, from a Swiss bank account to a shell company in Bermuda. The implication of Romney's refusal to disclose more is that the political flak he continues to take for his secrecy is still thought to be less painful than the potential public financial colonoscopy. And that will lead many to conclude that he does, indeed, have something to hide.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arch...on/259834/

I saw a few minutes of the CNN interview just awhile ago and thought Willard didn't answer the question.....he repeated what he has said before. That wasn't giving information, it was that shit eating grin telling the peasants to get off his back because this is all you're gonna get.

Keep the Bain ads coming hot and heavy. And the SEC needs to investigate just who was the sole owner and boss of Bain until 2002.

[jaxx]

NBC interview:

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/...4#48180164

Willard trying to turn it around on PBO. It isn't going to work.

Edit to add: Willard now is sporting a FLAG PIN on his lapel.

[SeattleGirl]

Yep, Willard didn't say anything he hasn't been saying since the shit hit the fan. Hey Willard, just because your lips are moving doesn't mean that you are actually answering questions.

[pappy]

(07-13-2012 10:15 PM)SeattleGirl Wrote:  Yep, Willard didn't say anything he hasn't been saying since the shit hit the fan. Hey Willard, just because your lips are moving doesn't mean that you are actually answering questions.

I just hope he keeps his lips moving. Every time his lips move he becomes less electable.

To the Republican mindset (and his own) he has the most important qualifications for President. He is white, male, old money wealthy and compliant to the demands of his benefactors.

Oh, I almost forgot one important qualification. As his wife Anne said, "It is our turn"!

Yes Anne it is but if their is a just God in heaven she will make sure it is your turn to be humbled by that which you perceive as your inferior based on nothing other than your own hubris.

[suzie]

So do we believe what Romney says when he gets in trouble?

Or what he says in the primary debates?

"I worked at one company, Bain, for 25 years." Mitt Romney, GOP primary debates.

1977+25=2002

[pappy]

(07-14-2012 05:50 AM)suzie Wrote:  So do we believe what Romney says when he gets in trouble?

Or what he says in the primary debates?

"I worked at one company, Bain, for 25 years." Mitt Romney, GOP primary debates.

1977+25=2002

Keep 'splainin' Mitt, keep 'splainin'. You look worse every time your mouth moves.

[NJMaverick]

Better yet Romney can't or refuses to deal with them. The critical you are the GOP nominee define yourself to the public is now all about his secret finances his and his lies about Bain. You couldn't ask for better than this.

[Brewman_Jax]

Nice try, Willard. PBO and campaign didn't make you do anything, the campaign is making you stand by your words.

[janedrake]

He really is between a rock and a hard place. Even if we take him at his word, the explanation that he was the CEO, president, chairman and sole shareholder of a company -- and he wasn't intellectually curious enough to want to know what was going on in his name, isn't much better than the alternative. And it doesn't change one bit that a solid portion of the money he made through Bain was made on the backs of those who lost their jobs to outsourcing and layoffs.

[OptimistesMaddie]

there as the basis for Americans to vote for him. Now that we "the commonors" want to know more about just exactly when he was there, how much money he made and when he left we are not allowed to ask "Marie Mitt Antoinette" about his buisness acuman we are being mean...

President Obama's campaing needs to continue to and prod Romney until he cracks. He cannot function being attacked and it's obvious. This needs to be exploited.



Ha...Ha isn't Rovian Smash Mouth Politics when we are doing it? They don't like their own tactics used against them...

Some may not agree with the tactics that are being used but this is about much more than playing fair while the Republicans disenfrancishe millions of voters, do nothing in Congress....this is about the Supreme Court and stopping the severe hard right the Repugs are taking this country. This is about stopping corporations and religion from destroying the American way of life.

[jaxx]

Quote:Some may not agree with the tactics that are being used but this is about much more than playing fair while the Republicans disenfrancishe millions of voters, do nothing in Congress....this is about the Supreme Court and stopping the severe hard right the Repugs are taking this country. This is about stopping corporations and religion from destroying the American way of life.

I so agree with you Maddie. This is about not letting the right walk all over us like they always try to do. We don't want their brand of governing.