Rush’s position on this is looking more and more moronic with each passing day.
No kidding...
Yup.
I’ve already seen the data, but haven’t posted it because I don’t have the time to make the goods look pretty in HTML.
The net:net story of Bain’s political contributions is this: They started out very small... then in ‘94, the first time Romney was running for an office, the contributions markedly increased at Bain, with a big chunk headed for Romney.
After that, it was a mixed back for Congressional seats through the mid-90’s, somewhat favoring the GOP.
Then after the ‘99 to ‘00 cycle, the contribution level exploded again. In the 2000 race, they were backing Hillary and the Democrats. Since then, it has been pretty heavily stacked for the Democrats. Even in the 2008 cycle, they backed the DNC much more heavily than they backed Mitt.