Im not putting him on a pedestal, Im saying that it was good he did this, and we dont need to qualify everything. If Clinton worked at a soup kitchen, Id say good for him.
That is very different from using law to give people free money from someone else. Im not gonna sit around and be paranoid.
And we havent established anything. A bunch of people who dont like Mitt and really dont like Mormonism have said that they dont think it is the real story, but they havent proven anything.
RS, I suspect nobody's ever going to be able to disprove this "Mitt Romney is Superman" story to you, even though it didn't pass the smell test. Do I believe Romney played a part in doing something good? Yes? Do I believe *he* shut down Bain, and *he* called all of Bain's contacts in NYC? No. That with all of those Bain partners there from across the U.S., that Romney's the only one who se up the LaGuardia command center and hired the PI firm? No. That Price Waterhouse Cooper were Romney's accountants? No, they were Bain's.
Somebody's rewritten the story of a group effort to give Romney all of the credit for everything. The question is, wasn't he satisfied with being a part of something good? Or was it his campaign that needed to make him the sole and absolute hero? Or a misguided supporter?
Because it didn't happen the way somebody's trying to portray it now.
Not when you read the article above rationally (do you realize how many hundreds of contacts Bain has in NYC? And Romney's the person who called them? At five minutes a call, it would have taken him weeks. And Romney shut down Bain? Puhleeze. In the beginning I said that a Board must have gotten involved and *bingo,* the article from the Globe that is contemporary to the event says that Romney called the other Managing Directors and they made the decision to shut down Bain and look for the girl.
So you can believe the Boston Globe story, which is both rational and was written at the time of the incident. A large firm devoting its resources. A decision made by all of the Managing Directors. Various talented professionals involved in this.
Or you can believe a puff piece written now that Romney's running for President. Something to make it look as if he ran into the cockpit of a failing jet, set it on autopilot, parachuted to the runway, operating the paving machine and extended the runway as necessary for a runaway jet, designed and built a jet pack to fly back into the jet, climbing in through a toilet hatch, reading bedtime stories to the children to calm them, before landing the plane safely although he had a 3" sliver of plexiglass imbedded in each eye - all to deliver news of the 9/11 attacks, which those in Washington, D.C. ignored. When the true story may have been that the flight attendant came back and said: We have a broken button on one of our consoles; does anyone have a paper clip we can use to fix it? And Mitt offered up a paper clip. Nay. Three paper clips, in three sizes.
So, you've read the Globe article, I assume you have some idea about how large, national, private equity firms work with partnership ownership work. And you think the posted article may be the real story, eh?
We'll have to respectfully disagree. And I think Romney did a good thing by calling the other Managing Directors of Bain. And by helping out.