Richie Rich Romney
July 17, 2012 - by
The Obama campaign has drawn blood. For the first time in this campaign, they have their teeth into Mitt Romney. And if he doesn’t escape, his candidacy could bleed to death before he accepts the nomination in Tampa.
Two weeks ago, Romney thought he had Obama trapped – by making him the symbol for Big Government. That’s something Americans hate, he thought – correctly.
But now Romney looks trapped as the symbol of something voters hate even worse: Big Business and Really, Really Rich People who got that way not by making real things, but by buying and selling companies, conjuring up complicated and deceptive financial deals and putting average people out of work. Plus outsourcing jobs and having suspicious-looking foreign bank accounts.
The Republican response is that Obama is waging “class warfare.” And that the way to rebuild the economy is to reward the “job creators.”
But that doesn’t work if you’re a “job killer.”
Romney has dug his hole deeper by slipping and sliding around about when he “retired” from Bain Capital. And refusing to release his tax returns.
A Democratic consultant here said this week he thinks the “iconic photo” of this campaign could be the one of Romney and his Bain partners with dollar bills sticking out of their expensive suits.
Plus the pictures of Romney joyriding in his speedboat at his luxury vacation home – one of them, that is.
Romney struck gold at Bain. So has Obama.
Richie Rich Romney
July 17, 2012/
The Obama campaign has drawn blood. For the first time in this campaign, they have their teeth into Mitt Romney. And if he doesn’t escape, his candidacy could bleed to death before he accepts the nomination in Tampa.
Two weeks ago, Romney thought he had Obama trapped – by making him the symbol for Big Government. That’s something Americans hate, he thought – correctly.
But now Romney looks trapped as the symbol of something voters hate even worse: Big Business and Really, Really Rich People who got that way not by making real things, but by buying and selling companies, conjuring up complicated and deceptive financial deals and putting average people out of work. Plus outsourcing jobs and having suspicious-looking foreign bank accounts.
The Republican response is that Obama is waging “class warfare.” And that the way to rebuild the economy is to reward the “job creators.”
But that doesn’t work if you’re a “job killer.”
Romney has dug his hole deeper by slipping and sliding around about when he “retired” from Bain Capital. And refusing to release his tax returns.
A Democratic consultant here said this week he thinks the “iconic photo” of this campaign could be the one of Romney and his Bain partners with dollar bills sticking out of their expensive suits.
Plus the pictures of Romney joyriding in his speedboat at his luxury vacation home – one of them, that is.
Romney struck gold at Bain. So has Obama.