2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumConservative Mag American Thinker calls Mitt a "vulture capitalist".
By contrast, Mitt Romney was primarily what is affectionately known as a vulture investor. Bain Capital invested in failing companies with the intention of either restructuring their business or stripping the business and selling its assets. This business model often adversely affects a company's employees. To be fair, if the company had gone bankrupt on its own, that would have adversely affected the company's employees too. The question Republican primary voters need to ask themselves is not whether Mitt Romney did anything illegal or immoral. In a climate of near 10% unemployment, do Republicans want a vulture investor to be the face of their party?
The two core arguments for Mitt Romney's candidacy are (1) that he knows how to create jobs and (2) that he stands a better chance of defeating Barack Obama than his competitors. Is it true that a slash and burn vulture investor is the best advocate for job creation? If you were a factory worker in Ohio or Pennsylvania or the upper Midwest and Mitt Romney killed your job because there was a more efficient use of the capital employed in your factory, are you really going to listen to what Mitt Romney has to say even if you believe in hard work and free market capitalism?
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/01/mitt_romney_and_the_hypocrisy_of_bain_capital.html
ingac70
(7,947 posts)Making sure every CONservative I know sees this.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)any conservative call anybody a "vulture capitalist" ,let alone the eventual nominee. I'm watching MSNBC right now and they're showing Rush Limbaugh apoplectic about Newts attacks on Romney. It's hilarious to watch.