Mitt is radioactive

[ProSense]

Romney To Obama: Let’s Agree Not To Discuss My Business Record Or Tax Returns

By Igor Volsky

Mitt Romney — who has placed his business record at the centerpiece of his presidential campaign — is now asking President Obama to stop discussing his tenure with Bain Capital.

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The Obama campaign has turned Romney’s business past into a campaign issue, noting that the the governor himself touts that experience as his “main calling card” for setting the country on the right track.

Until recently, Romney seemed to agree. “Look, I’m very proud of my experience at Bain Capital. I hope people understand that I was investing other people’s money for them and was compensated if we were highly successful,” he told CNBC’s Larry Kudlow on July 23. “That’s the kind of record which I’m pretty proud of.”

Top surrogate and adviser John Sununu echoed this argument during a Romney campaign conference in May, saying, “I think the Bain record as a whole is fair game, and what you have to do is do an honest evaluation.”

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/10/676441/romney-to-obama-lets-agree-not-to-discuss-my-business-record/

This recent point by Krugman is appropriate:

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And here’s the thing: Romney is running for president entirely on the basis of his business success. In a better world he could be running on the basis of his successful health reform, but now he’s condemning that very achievement. In a better world he could actually be running on the basis of some kind of coherent policy ideas, but instead he’s offering nothing but a mix of tax cuts for the rich and benefit cuts for the middle class so extreme that focus groups refuse to believe that this is his actual proposal.

Once the Bain record becomes a liability instead of a strength, there’s nothing there.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/business-is-not-economics/

[Fumesucker]

1. You say that like it's a bad thing...

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. a GOP consultant said Romney needed to emphasize his grandfather, father, husband role. WTF?

My dad is a grandfather. Is that enough to be president?

[madinmaryland]

14. Didn't Mitt's grandfather have multiple wives or mothers??

I don't think that is somewhere that Mittens wants to go.

[JBoy]

3. Watch out, Radioactive Man!

[malaise]

4. The Bain of his existence - Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

This is too good

[Hubert Flottz]

6. It is too good.

Dumber than Dumbya!

The cream of the GOPer crop!

[malaise]

13. He's an arrogant entitled prick

I'm lovin' it.

[CTyankee]

5. Har de har har...

Backfire, big time!

What a house of cards this campaign was built on! Geez, remove this one card and the whole, damn thing falls down!

[Hubert Flottz]

7. Mitt and the guys funding Mitt think that they can buy the game.

And the SCOTUS made it easy to do this time.

[Jim__]

8. Sure Mitt. Just publicly apologize for all the lying ads you've made.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

9. His campaign has decide they needed a new direction.

From now on all Mitt is allowed to say is, "vote for me to get Obama out of office."

Their new campaign slogan is, "Mitt Romney for president. At least he's not Obama."

[Major Hogwash]

10. Romney is going to have to pick Jesus to be his veep candidate to even come close now.

I don't think even Jesus would accept a place on his ticket now.
He'd probably look at Mitt and say, "Sorry, man, I can raise the dead, but I can't raise dead political campaigns."

[Cognitive_Resonance]

11. He's unraveling at a rapid rate. Starting to wonder if his candidacy might implode. nt

[Major Hogwash]

12. They've got a back-up plan . . punt from their own end zone!!

Mue-ha-ha!!!

[NYC Liberal]

15. The longtime Repub strategy, "Turn their strength into their weakness" is being used against them

and they don't know what to do. Only this time using the truth.

They've been reduced to whining about their own tactics being used against them and begging for it to stop.

[Blue Owl]

16. Time to break out the HazMitt Suits

n/t