Posted on 01/13/2012 3:45:14 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
John McCain heartedly defended Mitt Romney's private sector record today.
"These attacks on, quote, Bain Capital is really kind of anathema to everything we believe in" said John McCain. "We believe in job creation, and the record of Bain Capital is to take companies that would otherwise fail and restore them to some kind of viability, and sometimes that doesn't work, but you know, when it always works is a thing called communism."
But that's exactly not what McCain was saying in 2008, when the rapaciousness of Bain was part of the end game he and his aides pressed against Romney.
From the Times
"...as head of his investment company he presided over the acquisition of companies that laid off thousands of workers."
... [more attacks from McCain]
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
They should have, but they didn’t.
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