So, Mitt, Didja Build It?

I know there’s some give and take going on right now with Mitt Romney following the kind of wingnutty flavor of the day regarding President Obama’s supposed “you didn’t build that” gaffe. (I say Romney knows better, but is willing to, as they say, “follow a multitude to do evil”). I’ve been fixated on Mitt’s Olympic experience this past week (or as I’ve begun thinking of it, “Bain Capital: The Missing Years”), almost to the point where I might read his book on the whole thing, if I can a) find it at the library and b) smuggle some bourbon into the library. I find it improbable that I will not want to blunt the tone of self-congratulation I’m kind of already anticipating.

But anyways, this is a thing that was on tv about a handful of months ago:

Now, that isn’t entirely fair of me. Of course, the Olympics is an old established thingie that Mitt didn’t build from the ground up—no. He rescued it. Like, with a bunch of federal money. Just like companies sometimes need federal money to keep going—even companies someone may have built themselves. I guess what I’m getting at is this particular argument—whether any man, woman, or business enterprise, is an island of “do-it-oneselfery”—might not be Romney’s best tack.

That’s all.

Posted by Vixen Strangely on 07/19/12 at 09:24 PM • Permalink

What did I say?

What did I say?

After two consecutive days of strong attacks on President Obama for his comments touting government’s role in fostering new businesses, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s message was decidedly more muddled on Thursday when a local television station here reported that one of the entrepreneurs selected to illustrate Romney’s point got government help.

Well, we are talking about a genius candidate and campaign that not only insisted on kicking off a bus tour at a place called Scamman, but used the occasion to blast federal funding [*snare drum roll*] at a farm that had been preserved by federal funding [*BOOM tsssss*].

Why, it’s almost as if that sort of thing were commonplace.

And there’s also this:

When Mitt Romney transitioned from working full-time at Bain Capital to running the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, he did not fully leave the private equity firm. That’s not just because he continued to sign documents and take a salary, or because he described himself as Bain’s CEO on the Olympics’ website, but because he brought with him Bain’s personnel, ethos and, most importantly, its clients.

“How could I walk away from the golden goose?” he asked.
He brought the golden goose with him. Camping in Utah, and confiding to colleagues that his future political career was on the line, Romney opened his Bain rolodex.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isl8b7IH2TE&featu re=youtu.be

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