Union Super PAC Brands Romney An “Economic Traitor”
TV and web ad buy to slam Romney on Bain record. Hits Bain and Romney for asking firm to remove American flag while Chinese visitors toured a plant in Illinois.
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Kennedy Attacked Romney For Lack Of Women At Bain In 1994 Ad: “Exclusively White And Male”
In Romney’s failed 1994 bid for Senate, Ted Kennedy hit Romney for the lack of women at Bain Capital in an ad. Romney responded in a debate by mentioning the highest paid employee at Bain was a women and the chairman of the board was a women.
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The Presidential Debate Drinking Game
While Obama and Romney rhetorically slug it out tonight, you can go shot for shot at home!
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Joe Biden Calls Outsourcing "Not Bad If You’re Running A Company"
The vice president called Bain Capital “a good honorable company” today in Wisconsin. Biden added outsourcing is “not bad if you’re running a company like that. Your job is to make money for your investors. It’s a different job than the president.”
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Mysterious Video Appears To Show Romney’s Private Remarks On Chinese Labor Conditions
A YouTube user with the handle “Rachel Maddow,” who is not Rachel Maddow, posted what purports to be Romney remarks secretly recorded at a closed press fundraiser.
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Obama Super PAC Ad Blames Romney For Woman’s Death
In new Priorities USA Action ad, man tells story of his wife dying because she didn’t have insurance after Bain-owned GST Steel laid him off.
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Romney Campaign Lets Outsourcing Attacks Go Unanswered
The Romney camp stays silent as Obama pours millions into Bain-bashing commercials. “Never let an attack go unanswered. It’s a rule for a reason,” says Wilson.
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Bain Jets In For Romney Retreat
Flight records passed along by a Democratic source show that the Bain Capital Jet company jet flew from Bedford, Massachusetts to airfield near Romney’s Utah donor retreat on Friday.
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Obama Campaign Steps Up “Outsourcer-In-Chief” Attack On Romney
Obama deputy campaign manger Stephanie Cutter lays into Romney in new campaign video hours after David Axelrod brands Romney as “outsourcer in chief.” Obama campaign piles on Washington Post report.
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Mitt Romney Can Throw A Punch, But Can He Take One?
Attack, and duck. “We had a top-level surrogate at the WaWa,” insists Gorka.
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Obama Super PAC Steps Up Bain Capital Attack
Undeterred by Democratic pushback, Priorities USA Action launches new TV ad slamming Romney on his private equity background. “This was a booming place, and Mitt Romney and Bain Capital turned it into a junkyard — just make money and leave it.”
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Bill Clinton Undermines Obama’s Bain Attacks
Says Romney has a “sterling business career” and that being governor and working in the private sector crosses “the qualification threshold” to be president. Clinton says the election will not be about Bain Capital, but about the policies Romney’s advocating for the country.
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A Brief History Of All The Times Bain Attacks Didn’t Work
Obama says he’s not backing down from attacks on Romney’s business record. But history shows this approach has rarely worked.
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New Obama SuperPAC Ad Hits Romney For Ampad
A new ad from the pro-Obama superPAC Priorities USA features the testimonial of a former Ampad employee who lost her job as a result of the acquisition of Ampad by Bain.
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Mitt Romney In 2002: “I’m Basically In The Investors Hall Of Fame”
Romney has come under fire this week from Democrats for his role leading the private equity firm Bain Capital. Romney, though, is proud of his work, as he said while running for governor: “I wish I could bat 1.000, I can’t, but I’m basically in the investors hall of fame.”
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Romney Backer Says Bain Is Fair Game
…but that Obama’s not being fair about it. Accuses the the Democrat’s campaign of “cherry-picking” and “distortion.”
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Reminder From Obama Super PAC: Plenty Of Republicans Don’t Like Bain
As Republicans gloat about Cory Booker’s support for Bain, Priorities USA responds in kind. New ad shows Republicans attacking Romney’s “vulture capitalism.”
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Is This Obama’s Party?
The president didn’t come up through Democratic Party institutions, and now he has little organic connection to it. Not fair to compare him to Clinton, says Rendell.
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Obama: Bain “Is Not A Distraction, This Is What This Campaign Is Gonna Be About”
At the NATO Summit in Chicago, Obama is pressed on Cory Booker’s critique, defends his campaign’s attacks on private equity firm.
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Obama Surrogate Cory Booker Calls Bain Attacks "Nauseating"
Newark mayor defends private equity from Obama campaign attacks, calls them “crap.”
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Ashleigh Banfield Scolds Obama Press Secretary For "Unfair" Ad
Ashleigh Banfield yells at Ben Labolt for the Obama campaign’s Bain attack ad on Romney.
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Obama Super PAC: Romney Will “Take It All”
“He promised us the same things he’s promising the United States. And he’ll give you the same thing he gave us. Nothing. He’ll take it all.” Priorities USA, Obama’s Super PAC, doubles down on the Romney Bain attack. Ad is first in multi-million dollar series to run in Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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On Twitter, Attacking Romney, Limbaugh, And Bain
Americans United for Change looks to widen the damage.
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The Time Mitt Romney Rescued A 14-Year-Old Kidnap Victim
It’s the pro-Romney viral email the campaign wants you to see— and a genuinely moving true story.
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Mitt Romney Profited On Company Tied To Medicare Fraud During His Tenure
Company’s big returns for Bain were created partially with Medicare fraud scheme
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New Romney Ad Highlights Huckabee’s Bain Defense
Huckabee still hasn’t endorsed, but if he’s okay with this ad, it’s pretty clear which way he’s leaning.
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McCain Hit Romney On Bain In 2008
Defends him today. In ‘08, “strip away the jobs.” In ‘12, “Communism.”
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With Bain Before He Was Against It
An Obama ally who blasted Romney’s Bain tie today. But Reed hired a top official from the firm.
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Fake Press Release: Gordon Gekko Endorses Romney
The Bain issue follows Romney to South Carolina.
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Newt: I’m Not Backing Down From Bain Attack
Calls it “more pious baloney.”
