The Bain of Mitt Romney's Existence

Mitt Romney has a few achilles heels in his candidate for President. The largest of which might well turn out to his time at Bain Capital. At this company Romney and his partners would buy floundering businesses and turn them around for profit. Of course the dark side is that often those companies were not turned around but were driven into the ground. An example given on the news recently was a Medical Supply company that Bain Capital purchased on the cheap, on borrowed money. They then carved out savings from employee benefits, shutting down what were determined to be expendable divisions and then providing bonuses to themselves of over 300 million. Soon thereafter the company is in bankruptcy. For them to own a company for a short period of time, take out 300 million in profit, and stiff their original creditors and as an aside put the employees and any pensions held out of work and through bankruptcy is a prime example of what kind of person Mitt Romney is.

The problem is that Romney is not a bad man. He has a wonderful family, he tithes to his church and my guess is that he is not comfortable being as nasty as he has been to Newt Gingrich. Romney has decided that the ends justify the means. Perhaps the most telling jibe Gingrich has given Romney all year was, tired of Romney stating that he was not a politician, advising him this was simply because he lost to Ted Kennedy in the nineties and that he has been running for President for six years.

Mitt Romney may be a good person, probably is, but as a candidate he appears and acts soulessly.

I could sooner support Newt Gingrich than I could Mitt Romney.