Or the Mafia.

"fuck you, pay me"

"Heads I win, tails you lose"

How many companies did he bankrupt while draining equity from the corpse? Mobsters call it a bust-out.

Why should we trust a guy who used bankruptcy as a money making scheme?

The ads will write themselves.

I wonder if the owners of Good Fellas material would let the campaign borrow some footage?


The "bust-out" scene:

I'll have to watch that again. Good film. Tells the story of our time.

Sometimes I think that our country has been taken over by the Mafia.

Any efforts to get out the truth about Rmoney's "vulture capitalist" history will come from the bloggers and rogue activists, not from the top.

does not represent what old fashioned centrists and conservatives hold as "good" .

The "get what you can" greed vs "grow a business to sustain it's workers and community model" .....I have a very small business that was once a bit larger. Most small business people subscribe to the later worker/community model, only a few to Romney's model. My customers in Japan are all of the community model as well.

Vulture capitalism should be outlawed or so heavily taxed that it is not an attractive option for these types.

I don't think the President should go directly after R-money on his direct involvement with Bain. However, this is going to be the first time that I can remember where the nature of venture capitalism and how they make money off the backs of the workforce should be highlighted.

Case in point and since it's the one company that alot of people are talking about is KBToys. What (at least I think anyway) should be highlighted is that Bain only put up 18 million on a 305 million deal while at the same time, outsourced jobs, closed stores, placed the employee pension into government control and then after a couple of years took 85million out of the company for investor profits. If my math's right, that's a 500% return on investment, not a reinvestment into the company to reduce debt.

the ponzi scheme known as Wall Street.

Some more classic conservatives, not Neo-cons, probably oppose the various forms of Bain Capital on the grounds that it isn't REAL capital and it IS bad business to gamble so heavily up-front, nothing but short term profits, rather than invest in long-term America. The bad business practices are probably parasitic/threatening to better more authentically conservative business practices.

Oh, the irony: believing their own propaganda that people really crave capitalism and success that they overlook systematic off-shoring and raptor opportunism could be their downfall. They might just be standing there, slack-jawed in wonderment at what the big deal is with the peasants...

Personally, I--as many of you do--see this as a pretty much fatal blow to Romney, even if only pursued by the flaccid and apologetic rhetoric of this administration. In the face of serious personal derision, it should stop him dead.