Bain Capital

Obama and Romney are duking it out over the white blue-collar vote, according to an article in the LA Times. Whether  or not this is true, Obama is resurrecting the “trickle-down” charge against Romney in a new form. He’s painting Romney as a greedy fat-cat capitalist. This sells among certain voters. Meanwhile Romney apparently has run away from Bain or tried to run away from it, ineptly it seems.

If I were in the Romney campaign, I’d have done just the opposite and maybe Romney is already doing this. Frankly state that capitalism is the job creator and wealth creator. State that this is what Obama is against. State that Obama has killed job creation with his programs and that even after 4 years, he hasn’t engineered a recovery of any decent proportions. Hang the 8.2 percent unemployment around Obama’s neck. Then admit that Bain did support companies that at times outsourced jobs, and that has to be allowable in an open economy. But then point out that Bain is a risk-taking company that is taking chances on American companies that create jobs in America too. A look at Bain’s portfolio shows this.

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8:58 am on July 17, 2012