NYT ed board calls Romney's explanations of when he left Bain "erratic and self-serving"

[flamingdem]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/opinion/mitt-romneys-complaints.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper

excerpt:
Mr. Romney’s descriptions of when he left Bain have been erratic and self-serving. In 2002, when he needed to show he was still a Massachusetts resident, he denied he had quit in 1999, saying he had taken a leave of absence to run the Olympics committee. A series of documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Committee show that Bain certainly didn’t describe him as absent after 1999.

A former Bain managing director, Edward Conard, said on MSNBC Sunday that Mr. Romney remained C.E.O. “legally” so he could negotiate his generous exit deal.

But now that Bain has been accused of helping other companies outsource jobs overseas, laying off steel company employees and wiping out their pensions, Mr. Romney says he had no management role after 1999. A Kansas City steel plant that Bain bought in 1993 under Mr. Romney’s control, for example, went bankrupt in 2001, costing 750 workers their jobs and pensions. After the Obama campaign made an ad featuring several of the angry workers, the Romney campaign said he couldn’t be blamed because he left Bain in 1999

[3feetofsnow]

1. Self serving?!!

Mitt??!! No way!!!

[MADem]

2. He got a homesteader's tax break on his ski chalet mansion in Utah around that time, too.

He had to pay it back after the people of the Commonwealth of MA said "WTF? It's bad enough the shithead is a carpetbagger, how dare he be a BLATANT carpetbagger!"

He really thinks the rules do not apply to him.

[janlyn]

3. definition of a fact

Mitt continues the conservative belief that if they say it loud enough and often enough it makes it FACT.

I liken this to any one of us having a mortgage and being solely responsible for paying said mortgage,moving out and letting someone else live in our house and say that since we no longer live there we are not responsible for making the payments.

What planet does this guy live on?????

[Xyzse]

4. Sadly

It is true though.
Repeat a lie often enough and loud enough people tend to believe it. So even if it is not a "Actual Fact" it becomes a "Known Anecdote".

[Spazito]

5. Yep, "erratic and self-serving" is good but understates the nonsensical...

excuses being used by him and his surrogates.

"Retroactively" is now my favorite word to attach to Mr. Outsource/Offshore.

[flamingdem]

6. I like "radioactive" as an overall description! nt

[Spazito]

7. LOL, yep, it certainly looks like SwissMitt's tax returns...

are highly "radioactive".

[Blue Meany]

8. Let's see, Romney bought companies, gutted them, loaded them up with debt

in order to pay himself and his cronies huge management and consulting fees, and a lot of them eventually went out of business because of the huge debt load he left them with. But as long as that happened after Feb. 1999, he has not responsibility for it.

It's as if terrorist sent a letter bomb to someone. The next day he decided that was wrong and turned over a new leaf. The former terrorist wrote a letter to the press saying he decided to give up terrorism. Therefore, when the bomb goes off and kills its target, he is not responsible because it happened after he quit. But he is till entitled to receive ongoing income from promised him by that evil foreign dictator who hired him to engage in terrorism.

[malaise]

9. "erratic and self-serving"

Ding ding we have a winner