Romney ally says Bain is off limits

[ProSense]

Romney ally says Bain is off limits

by Jed Lewison

I guess Mitt Romney is going to have to take back his claim to have created more than 100,000 jobs at Bain:

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a leading Republican figure, said Friday that Mitt Romney's time at the helm of Bain Capital isn't part of the record voters should consider in choosing a president.

Asked during a press conference here whether he thought Romney's experience at Bain should be part of his "record," McDonnell shook his head and said "No. No."

"All of these attacks are things that happened after Mitt Romney left as the managing director of Bain — he left to run the Olympics, some of the best Olympics in history in 2002," McDonnell said. "He left to do that in 1999. To the degree that there is any truth to these sorts of outsourcing allegations, they happened after 1999 when he was not the managing director."

So with Bain off the table, what does Romney run on? Matt Yglesias has a suggestion:

McDonnell says Bain is off-limits, so presumably Romney's running on his Massachusetts health care policies: http://t.co/nQruq8Gd
— @mattyglesias via TweetDeck

Probably a better idea than campaigning on being 47th in the nation in job creation.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/13/1109498/-Romney-ally-says-Bain-is-off-limits

Damn, can someone put that thing back in the bottle? Where the F is that Etch-A-Sketch?

[flamingdem]

1. Nice try Gov.

I like what Mudcat said about the Gov. last night!

[Curtland1015]

2. That is awesome. These idiots are all just petulant children!

Wah! No fair! No fair!

[spanone]

3. bwahahahahahahaaa

[Lucy Goosey]

4. Romney has been highlighting his years in the private sector during the campaign

Nice try Bob, but you can't blame Obama for making Bain an issue - Romney had made it an issue.

[renate]

5. so we're supposed to believe he cut all ties to Bain, the firm he created, forever

... for a one-time gig of running the Olympics? Maybe I've misunderstood his claim, but if that's what he's saying he did, doesn't that seem a bit weird? Why would somebody as unimaginably materially successful as Romney leave his position at Bain forever for a single opportunity (that doesn't even make him much money)? Was there any law saying that the guy running the Olympics has to cut all other business ties? If there was, I retract my question (I guess), although it still seems really unlikely to me that Romney, or anybody, would leave a moneymaker like Bain for a temporary, albeit high-ranking, position with the Olympics.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. His stewardship of Bain is supposed to be his assest

After all, this is his primary reason for claiming that he can manage the economy better than that "socialist" Barack Obama has. If THAT's not fair game, what is????

[Scuba]

7. Phhhhttt. Nothing is off-limits in a Presidential election.

[Initech]

8. If they get to attack Obama for Rev. Wright, Bain is absolutely up for grabs.

If they get to attack Obama's birth certificate, we get to attack Bain.

If they get to attack Obama for using a fucking teleprompter (which Romney also does ), we get to attack Bain.

[B Calm]

9. I can't stop laughing!!!

[DippyDem]

10. Fuck you Governor Vaginagroper! n/t

[ProgressiveEconomist]

11. 'any ... outsourcing ... happened after 1999'--NO, a lot happened in 1998, when

Bain invested millions in a CHINESE outsourcing firm, Global-Tech appliances, whose main plant was in Dongguan, China. And Romney ads have the nerve to lie about lost manufacturing jobs under President Obama!

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002935339

[librechik]

12. After insisting Mitt's biz experience is the crown jewel of his campaign--ignore that, oops!

literally after crying that Obama wasn't paying enough attention to RMoney's fabulous success in business as his most excellent qualification--Obama doesn't know about business, unlike Romney, they said!

This is too delicious!!

Unfortunately, Repub voters won't remember a thing about the scandal come November becasue Romney is somehow better than Obama anyway. (He's white, you know)

[panader0]

13. While I don't believe Rmoney's claims a bit

I would wonder, why couldn't a "real businessman" help organize the Olympics AND run Bain? Can't walk and chew gum?
Hell, I'm just construction trash and I can do several different things in a day, or even at once.
These bozos are really grasping at straws now. It's still a bit early, but I'm starting to think his goose is cooked.

[treestar]

14. So they are going to quit using that to support the claim he is good at business?

They get to have it both ways, I guess!

[NNN0LHI]

15. He would run on his job at the Olympics if he had not needed a federal bailout for that

[sweetloukillbot]

16. Best Olympics in History?

Wasn't SLC the one that had the judging scandal?

[Dawson Leery]

17. Lets discuss RomneyCare!

[ohheckyeah]

18. As a Virginian

my response is Fuck Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. He's an asshole.

[ThoughtCriminal]

19. In another month, the 2002 Olympics will also be off limits

They're not going to like a closer look there either.