{"id":219,"date":"2012-01-16T11:27:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T17:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2012-01-16T11:27:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T17:27:21","slug":"huffpost-why-the-bain-capital-controversy-is-so-damaging-to-gop-chances-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"HuffPost: Why the Bain Capital Controversy Is So Damaging to GOP Chances This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/robert-creamer\/why-the-bain-capital-cont_b_1208678.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Reasons 1-6:\u00a0 Read the article for more info on each reason<\/p>\n

1). First and most important, attacks on Romney’s history at Bain are not “attacks on free enterprise” — or being “anti-business.” They are important for what they communicate about Mitt Romney and his values and the contrast that it poses with President Obama.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2). If you were the Republican Party, you couldn’t pick a worse time to nominate a candidate with a resume as one of Wall Street’s “Masters of the Universe.” <\/strong><\/p>\n

3). Over the last year, Americans have become increasingly focused on economic inequality — and on the fact that the gang that caused the economy to collapse kept making billions while everyone else paid the price.<\/strong><\/p>\n

4). The impact of Romney’s record at Bain is magnified by his own personality. <\/strong><\/p>\n

5). The fact that Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry have joined in defining Romney’s Bain years absolutely inoculates Democrats from charges that they are “anti-free enterprise” or “anti-business” when they make the same charges.<\/strong><\/p>\n

6). Finally, in so many respects, Romney’s Bain history makes him the perfect antagonist in the campaign narrative set out by President Obama last month in his Kansas speech. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/robert-creamer\/why-the-bain-capital-cont_b_1208678.html Reasons 1-6:\u00a0 Read the article for more info on each reason 1). First and most important, attacks on Romney’s history at Bain are not “attacks on free enterprise” — or being “anti-business.” They are important for what they communicate … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-presidential-candidates","category-political-news-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}