Actually, Perry's comments were fair game, and so is Romney's involvement in Bain. If Romney has a good answer, let him bring it.
Is Bain a venture-capital firm bursting with turnaround expertise ..... or are they a vulture fund, asset-strippers and economic termites who cheat creditors and retirees of their due, and shareholders of their equity?
It's a fair question. I don't know what the answer is, but I think Rush, Hannity, and other conservatives who attacked Perry for raising the charge on largely top-down theoretical grounds ("we DO NOT as Republican conservatives EVER EVER EVER criticize anything businessmen do to put money in their pockets" seemed to be what Hannity was saying) is a huge strategic error. You cannot win at politics, defending maggots like Michael Milken, Boone Pickens, Ken Lay, and other access-capitalists, greenmailers, and asset-stripping, self-dealing chiselers.
Agree. Placing the money men above criticism is tone deaf. I am a Christian and I cannot escape the words that Jesus directed at the rich. It seems that "rich" and "righteous" are usually at odds.
One does not need to be a wealth redistributing Marxist to see that something is wrong with the unbridled accumulation of massive wealth at the personal level.
I'm not saying that the bridle should be governmental coercion. Self restraint is what conservatives advocate.
Making a god of money is just as idolatrous as worshiping that rock in Mecca.
Whatever the sins or benefits of Bain capital, it really looked like Gingrich and Perry were grasping for something to attack the very attackable Romney with. I don’t know diddley squat about firms like Bain, but from comments I’ve read from people who know, Bain does a lot more good than bad. Even Gingrich backtracked from his previous criticisms of Romney concerning Bain. This has put conservatives like me, who don’t much like Romney, defending him from conservatives I do like, Gingrich and Perry. I want to tear my hair out or beat my head against a rock for defending Romney from far more conservative candidates. But it is what it is: Perry and Gingrich grandstanding and soundling like Chomsky or Nader in attacking a capitalist firm.