Since when is telling the truth a commie tactic. You apologists make me want to hurl!
In many cases he broke up businesses and fired employees. Sometimes businesses were better off before Bain. Such is the nature of the business. As a trader, I make bad, stinky, money-losing trades all of the time. But my success is measured by the profit at the end of the year and not by a bad trade here and there. Same with Bain - they are great at what they do. Attacking them over a few deals shows a lack of understanding of what they do and how they do it.
The problem here isn't what Mitt did, that can be addressed, it is that attack has gone way beyond Mitt to attack the entire Private Equity system in the United States. A free, legal, and moral business structure that has a role. Sometimes some, like the poster above who is fine 'suspending conservatism' is sounding little different than the Occupiers who attack 'Wall Street' in general for the corruption of a few and are willing (usually gladly) to take the entire system down instead of dealing with the individual problems. Mitt is the problem, not private equity.