Not Even Bain Could Salvage Mitt's Mess

Let's see. You've got an enterprise underwater led by someone who lurches from one desperate failed ploy to another, and anxious investors beginning to realize they're about to lose a fortune for nothing.

What would Bain Capital do? Fire everybody, including the boss, declare bankruptcy and cut the losses. But unfortunately for Republicans they're stuck with Mitt Romney and his clueless campaign team until the bitter end. Managed bankruptcy just isn't an option.

The odds for a Romney victory are now about as good as winning the lottery without a ticket. Why? My guess: For the same reason that most Republican primary voters didn't want him in the first place. He is a really lousy candidate few Americans ever liked or understood -- and now, after watching him bumble through a summer of mishaps, even fewer care to try.

Money got Romney this far, nothing else -- because in this campaign cycle, more than ever, money ruled. Until now. Even Bain knows, in the end if the product isn't selling, the company can't be saved, no matter how much cash you pump down the rat hole.

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Comments

[Kevinish Weinrich]

09:42 PM on 09/30/2012

After reading "Money got Romney this far, nothing else," I have to wonder - is this just hyperbole to make a point? How many HuffPost readers actually believe that as a non-hyperbolic statement?

Please respond if you believe that no one supports Romney based on his support for limited government (not "no government"), the need to attempt to cut the deficit in half, etc.

[StillAmused]

11:18 PM on 09/15/2012

Nicely, succinctly said.

Everything else is white noise.

... and talking head food.

[Jay Haney]

05:51 PM on 09/15/2012

Hoooo...succiently put, Mr. Crawford!

[SETexasLib]

05:38 PM on 09/15/2012

Bain could at least try to save Mitt's Mess. It would be extremely profitable. First they could raid all the PACs supporting him, pocket the money, leave and watch to see if he survives.

[Chuck The Canuck]

04:49 PM on 09/15/2012

Note to Mitt, all the money in the world can’t buy integrity, intelligence or you the presidency.

[Jay Daterman]

04:26 PM on 09/15/2012

The favorite Bain "solution", outsourcing, would work well with Mitt and the teapotters.

[zatonoichi]

03:18 PM on 09/15/2012

When it's all said and done, we will find, never in history has so much money been spent on so much NOTHING.

[Brbr2424]

08:58 PM on 09/15/2012

Since the Meg Whitman campaign.

[Wittyfull]

11:52 AM on 09/15/2012

Very astute point! Bain Capital should go in there and clean house, outsource, and extract millions from the coffers for their "services".

[mnyegele]

11:28 AM on 09/15/2012

Bain Capital is alive and well.

Elect Mitt Romney and he'll eliminate all banking regulations. That will give the Banksters in Bain Capital control over your 401k.

Following the Bain tradition, the Bain Capital Banksters will plunder your 401k and send all the money to secret banks in Switzerland. There will be nothing to stop them from doing so.

So remember, if you vote for the GOP, you can kiss your 401k good-by.

[Jay Haney]

05:52 PM on 09/15/2012

Already did...during the supposedly "better" times of the W years out of desperation.

[Randomizer]

11:15 AM on 09/15/2012

Is it too late to bring back that Herman Cain fellow? At least he'd bring pizza!

[zatonoichi]

03:17 PM on 09/15/2012

Yeah, sure...crappy, corporate pizza.

[El]

07:24 PM on 09/15/2012

And he was much funnier.

[zoiebear]

10:28 PM on 09/15/2012

Nothing funny about Crazy....

[Patrick Shaw]

10:44 AM on 09/15/2012

In this mess I do not only want Romney to fall....I want Rove to fall too.

The Big Republican money will remember this failure.

[Jay Haney]

05:54 PM on 09/15/2012

What worries me occasionally is that they may actually learn from it. We thought that they were finished in 2008, but they gave themselves an epi pen to the system (see Tea Party) to manage a comeback. But the comeback has been bungled because certain prejudices (not just class or racial but also cultural) have kept them from realizing what they truly needed to win. I saw all this not to scare anyone...this is a call to action for this year and all the years these yahoos blight the political process.

[egdirb5951]

09:07 AM on 09/15/2012

"But the Republican presidential nominee is learning today in foreign affairs — as he has learned for weeks on the domestic ledger — that you can’t be just another choice, you have to be a better choice."
By James Rainey
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-flip-flops-20120914,0,749715.story

[jdevans]

10:40 AM on 09/15/2012

Romney obviously didn't learn anything about foreign affairs on his trip to Britain, Israel and Poland where he constantly stuck his foot in his mouth.

[BlackJAC]

01:00 PM on 09/15/2012

The only foreign affairs experience Mittzi has is talking to his offshore bankers and playing the money market.

[glowdotor]

06:02 PM on 09/15/2012

That's because Britain, Israel, and Poland have tricky languages.

[SteveDenver]

09:02 AM on 09/15/2012

Ryan and Romney (and Rove) seem to think that fashioning an entire campaign out of anti-Obama energies will prompt people to show up and vote for them. The only problem is that they lied, defended lies, and repeated lies. Now their entire campaign is in question.

Fact-checking sites report traffic is up 200-400% over 2008. That is incredibly encouraging!

[msblynne]

02:20 PM on 09/15/2012

Fantastic news! Thanks for that. Do you have a cite you could share?

[SteveDenver]

11:40 PM on 09/15/2012

It was stated on this site in the past couple of weeks and Katrina vanden Heuvel of THE NATION mentioned it on Bill Maher's show.

[nothingchanges]

08:06 AM on 09/15/2012

Time to declare "moral bankruptcy"?

[jhNY]

02:30 PM on 09/15/2012

excellent!

[stereolab]

02:27 AM on 09/15/2012

Ha. All too true. The GOP got stuck with a lemon. Of course, I'm not sure the likes of Rick Perry or Newt Gingrich would've fared much better. The whole idealogy is pure lemonade.

[susiewatusi]

10:46 AM on 09/15/2012

except that lemonade is yummy.... but awful for you! hahahaha... good one. Keep those word plays rollin'.

[jdevans]

01:54 PM on 09/15/2012

When asked at a 4th of July parade how his lemonade was, Mitt Romney said "Lemon. Wet. Good".