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| Romney's Bane |
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| it isn't Bain, it's the Republicans |
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This is Dark Cloud on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Mitt Romney, the man without a discernible personality or human laugh, has become predictably stuck on his Bain Finance and Bain and Company connections from his past. It can be confusing, but Bain and Company and Bain Capital are not the same and are legally completely separate and not really related. It's just coincident that the names derive from the same man and that Bain Capital was started by former Bain and Company executives, including Romney. Romney was later called back to run Bain and Company. There is also something called Bain Finance, which I think I've seen applied to both Bain and Company and Bain Capital. So, your guess is as good as mine if all we have is the Media to inform us. In short, the term Bain can apply to several companies that are incestuous but not related. The Romney camp wants the confusion so they can say deflect an attack if the name is not precise. Romney has yet to sit down and be interviewed at length by anyone, not even on Fox News. You get the feeling that the GOP knows how tightly wrapped and vulnerable their inevitable candidate is, and that while they mouth the united front, they're mad for having nobody better than Romney, and Romney for financing a campaign run for an office even the Republicans don't think he's equipped for. The feeling is that Obama is going to win again, possibly win big, and they're angry and frustrated. Here in Colorado, where the GOP is clearly Tea Party strong, they've revived the several themes that did them so poorly in their own recent primaries and in the last presidential election. They're trying to pull Birtherism back into the world by forceps and they're trying out all sorts of fear based racism to try and unite white voters. It's ugly, but worse it looks to actually be riling up the bigots, the aging Dixiecrats that Nixon tore from the Democrats and kept within the GOP. District Six Republican Congressman Mike Coffman, on paper, comes across as a real patriot and sharp guy, which he is. He has served in both the Army and Marines for years and has been a successful business man. He's generally very personable. But he did something very stupid and continues to do it and has possibly and utterly improbably and unintentionally offered up his seat for grabs. What Coffman did was question President Barack Obama's birthplace and whether he's really an American at heart. That's open race baiting which speaks poorly of his district, Elbert County, and Colorado as a whole. Given the rapidly Bluing of Colorado, mostly because Hispanics and Liberals unite in Obama approval, the GOP powers that be apparently informed Coffman to walk that back and apologize. Which he did. Sort of. Not really, no. When the media attempted to get pin Coffman down on what he said, why, and what exactly did he mean by 'real' American, he just repeats the mantra: he misspoke, he has apologized, and that's all he will say. The highly readable and useful website coloradopols has lain it out clearly. Coffman is also friends with Texas Congressman Joe Wilson, the guy who screamed 'you lie!' at Obama during his first State of the Union. Coffman campaigned for Wilson. What unites these two are their rather cowardly attempts to inflame racists by showing no regard for someone they consider an uppity Negro, in their initial vernacular. They do this because that mindset is a large part of their political base. No uppity Negro is going to lie to our heroic Joe Wilson, and no uppity Negro is going to pretend to be an American despite his uncontestable birth certificate and his mother's unquestioned citizenship. It's depressing, because Coffman at one time came across as a constructive guy. No longer. And because Romney has no real policy about anything, and what little he expresses isn't that different than Obama's, my fear is that the GOP will try to get huge expressions of racist twaddle going to absorb the media during an election their candidate cannot win, at least as it appears on this early date. The census has shown that white births are no longer the majority, the economy is slowly getting increasingly and visibly better, Obama has proven to be no wimp whatever in foreign policy, and the polls all blame the GOP for the crappy Congress. So what else can they do? Revisit Bain? The corrupt Mormon Olympics? They have to dance with the one that brought them, like that pasty white effeminate male with the stuffed toy gorilla who waved it at cameras in 2008 at a Tea Party rally, and then tossed it and ran. |
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