“Yours is the rational approach. We have to know how many laudable deals Bain did and how many malicious deals they did where they found ways to bleed excessive profits (via dividends and management fees) out of an acquisition knowing this would bankrupt the company. Thus screwing the other shareholders and forcing the taxpayers to bail out the pension plan (via the Federal agency that does this)
Why didn’t Massachusetts Democrats try to tar Romney with Bain’s activities? Maybe Bain was so clean they couldn’t”
I think I read on another thread that Kennedy did use Bain to defeat Romney for Senate. There was a link, but I did not explore it because it was way past my bedtime.
OK. I clicked the link. It was from hardball YUCK. Anyway there was plenty of knowledge about this because of an article in the Boston Globe. There was an ad used that had people who had lost their jobs saying they would like to see those jobs he created, because there weren’t any in their town.
One ad that was made was not used, because Kennedy was already so far ahead of Romney, it wasn’t needed. But over all it seems that knowledge of Bain was known and played a part in that contest.