The Romney campaign hires an expert in disaster management

[kpete]

Symbolism much?

The Romney campaign hires an expert in disaster management:

The Romney campaign is hiring a corporate public relations specialist to help guide their response to questions about the candidate’s time in the private sector with Bain Capital, Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith reports.

...

Davis’s time in Washington has taken her from Capitol Hill, where she worked with then Speaker Newt Gingrich to craft the 1994 “Contract With America,” to Fannie Mae, where she worked as a “vice president for regulatory policy” during a period of time when regulators eventually reported that the mortgage financing giant had been engaged in “extensive financial fraud.”

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Davis left Treasury after the 2008 elections to join the private Brunswick firm, where, AdAge explained, she took on yet another touchy cause: Defending BP as it tried in vein to staunch the flow of oil from its busted Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/romney-hires-pr-vet-to-bite-back-on-bain-attacks/

Boy, this robotic douche sure can pick 'em.
http://www.dependablerenegade.com/dependable_renegade/2012/08/symbolism-much.html

[Blue Owl]

1. This is like Friday News Dump good

[Lint Head]

2. There was a disaster? Where's old 'Good Job Brownie' when you need him.

[arbusto_baboso]

5. That's who I thought the OP was referring to....

when I read the headline...

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. It's nothing that can't be fixed with an entirely new campaign staff.

And an entirely new candidate.

[Lochloosa]

4. Don't tell Jeb that.

[Curtland1015]

6. I think he's hiring her a little TOO retroactively. (nt)

[lunatica]

7. Rachel Maddow had a LOT to say about her

Evidently she's the go to person when your corporation creates ecological disasters like the BP Gulf Oil Spill. Which means Romney is in deep shit right now.

[magical thyme]

8. way to announce your flailing.

Critics have already begun to ask why it was necessary to hire anyone – let alone one of the country’s most respected P.R. people – to push back against attacks Romney aides insist have done nothing to hurt their cause.

“I think it’s very odd and unlikely to solve their problem,” said one Beltway Republican.

[TeamPooka]

9. You're going to need a bigger boat Mitt.

[HopeHoops]

10. They'll need it.

[KamaAina]

11. I figured it was gonna be Heckuvajob Brownie

[Johonny]

12. +1