Romney: Obama Bain Attacks Are ‘Character Assassination’

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Romney: Obama Bain Attacks Are ‘Character Assassination’

Mitt Romney repeatedly condemned a Super PAC’s preliminary plan to use Jeremiah Wright in ads against President Obama, but complained to reporters in Florida on Thursday that Obama’s campaign was engaged in “character assassination” of their own by running ads highlighting layoffs at companies bought by Bain Capital.

“My work at Bain was to try to make the enterprises more successful, to grow them,” he said. “There is this fiction that some have that somehow you can be highly successful by stripping assets from enterprise and walking away with a lot of money…there may be some people that know how to do that. I sure don’t.”

He continued: “The purpose of the president’s ads are not to describe success and failure but to somehow suggest that I’m not a good person or not a good guy. And I think the American people will know better than that if they don’t already. This really should be a campaign about the future, about who can get America on track again to create good jobs, who can do a better job for our kids. It is about jobs and kids. And having a campaign focused on character assassination is one of the things I find offensive among many others in the PAC description that came in the New York Times. If that’s accurate, why, obviously that’s something I repudiate.”

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/romney-obama-bain-attacks-are-character-assassination

CMAFR!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. 250+mil, three houses and an elevator for your cars. Yeah, you know how to steal assetts.

[FarLeftFist]

2. Romney has assassinated his own character.

[malaise]

3. Tweety and guests will discuss after the break n/t

[silverweb]

4. Past job performance.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Character assassination?

[Scuba]

5. Yawn.

[Politicalboi]

6. Rmoney is a

"Suicider" All self inflicted.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Mitt wants to claim he's a job creator because of his experience at Bain

The Obama campaign is rightly pointing out that he was a jobs destroyer. Mitt's whole candidacy is pretty much based on his time at Bain and he thinks that qualifies him to be President because he was CEO.

Criticizing his job destroying tendencies is definitely fair game. His entire record should be scrutinized. Mittens just can't handle it.

[Pathwalker]

8. What character? He's a hollow man. No core. A Ken Doll.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. The only reason Romney won the nomination was through character assassination

Republicans always accuse others of doing the very thing they do.

[wandy]

10. Oh mittens, you even deny you're true calling.............

you can be highly successful by stripping assets from enterprise and walking away with a lot of money…there may be some people that know how to do that. I sure don’t.

If that is not why Bain exists, then what the hell are you good for.

[sadbear]

11. Did this work for Gingrich?

No, not even with dumbass republicans.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/newt-gingrich-any-ad-that-uses-words-i-actually-said-is-a-falsehood/

[phantom power]

12. If you stop lying about us, we'll stop teling the truth about you...

[Life Long Dem]

13. "Character assassination" implies lies from Obama

I'm sure Romney would like to debate the facts.

[closeupready]

14. Oh, please, you whiney-ass baby. Grow up.

[Vincardog]

15. Mittens the answer is EASY. Just provide a complete accounting of EVERY job

Bain Capital created and destroyed (or economized out of existence).
Put the two numbers next to each other and let the TRUTH be known

[gratuitous]

16. "Assassination," Mitt?

Really, your character was like that when you got here. Don't go blaming others for your life's work of rendering yourself a soulless, remorseless narcissist, interested only in when the next big pot of money is going to be dumped into your pocket.

[AzDar]

17. The truth hurts.

Eff off, RomBot...

[Turbineguy]

18. Bain

converted assets and people into money.

[lob1]

19. Character assassination? It's called "step 1" in the republican playbook.

[louis-t]

20. And republickers would NEEEEVER do that.

[librechik]

21. Only if it was untrue. In truth, they reveal Romney's character

[TBF]

22. Where were you Mr. Romney when Obama was being

called a Muslim, accused of not being born in this country, etc and so on ... Shoe's on the other foot now huh.

Fuck the repug dirtbags. They can sure dish it out but they can't take it. You better believe Romney's character is at issue.

[Aerows]

25. Romney has no idea how to stand on his own two feet

and his ethics, because he has nothing he wasn't programmed with. That's why he wavers like a flag in the breeze.

[Aerows]

23. Character Assasination by telling the truth?

Romney is a POS. He's just mad that people are discussing that truthful fact.

[kentuck]

24. So let me see if I got this right?

If Obama says that Romney lost jobs and bankrupted companies while at Bain, then that is character assassination?

But if Romney says that Obama lost millions of jobs and is bankrupting our country, then that is not character assassination??

[Aerows]

26. Romney can't stand people telling the truth n/t