There is a lot of smoke being blown on the Bain matter. The focus should be on one issue:
The spinmeisters are doing their best to blow a lot of smoke at the Bain/SEC filing matter. But one thing stands out and it should be the push back to any and all of those arguing that there isn't anything inaccurate in the filings that Romney signed after 1999. It is that in those filings, Romney attests, under penalty of perjury, that his "principal occupation" at the relevant times is "managing director of Bain." Keep in mind that this part of the form doesn't ask for Romney's title. It asks for his "occupation." And his answer was that his "principal occupation" was "managing director" of Bain.
Yet, we are told, and I'm prepared to accept, that he wasn't doing squat for Bain at the time. He was working full time for the Olympic committee. If that's so, why was his principal occupation not properly reported? Indeed, Romney wasn't some part time volunteer for the Olympic committee -- he had a title: CEO. And he was paid over a million bucks while holding that job. (Yes, he donated his salary to charity but that doesn't change the fact that he was a full time salaried employee of the Olympic committee.)
So, to those who try to cover the issues raised by the SEC filings in smoke, you should ask them whether or not Romney's principal occupaiton at the time of those filings was as Managing Director of Bain, as he reported under penalty of perjury, or as CEO of the Olympic Committee. If its the former, than the claims that he wasn't involved at Bain are false. And if its the latter, he signed a form that falsey reported his principal occupation.
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