Mark Schmitt, TNR
We've just witnessed an episode of political strategy of such creativity and nerve that journalists and political consultants may well be talking about it decades from now: Barack Obama's reelection campaign recast Mitt Romney's most formidable asset, his business career, from an image of a successful investor in startup businesses, to that of a trimmer, manipulator, tax-evader, and destroyer of value.Questions about Romney's ambiguous role in Bain Capital from 1999 through 2002, and Bain's role in squeezing profit out of companies it owned, are likely to recur...
We've just witnessed an episode of political strategy of such creativity and nerve that journalists and political consultants may well be talking about it decades from now: Barack Obama's reelection campaign recast Mitt Romney's most formidable asset, his business career, from an image of a successful investor in startup businesses, to that of a trimmer, manipulator, tax-evader, and destroyer of value.Questions about Romney's ambiguous role in Bain Capital from 1999 through 2002, and Bain's role in squeezing profit out of companies it owned, are likely to recur...
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