January 16, 2012
The Huffington Post
Calvin Woodward
"Mit Romney Bain Capital Experience: Gingrich-Allied Super PAC Film Flubs Facts"
An ad, meant to ridicule Romney, was so wrong that Gingrich asked the group to take the ad down. There is raising suspicion that Romney’s work at Bain Capital was not as rosy as he has made it out to be. There is doubt that he really created 100,000 jobs while working there. The Winning for Our Future PAC decided to produce the 28-minute video “King of Bain: When Romney Comes to Town” to highlight this fallacy in Romney’s campaign. The film twists interviews with former employees and numbers to imply resentment and mismanagement that does not really exist. The film blames Romney for the shutdown of KB Toys, even though he was not employed by Bain Capital at the time of its involvement with KB Toys. This ad brings up a huge hole in Romney’s campaign and could have been a crippling blow for the candidate. However, the PAC got it so wrong that it managed to make people defensive of Romney. This issue has the potential to loose Romney the support of many of the unemployed in the country. If Gingrich can dismantle Romney’s claim to be a job-making machine, he will have taken his credibility and a major pillar of his campaign. However, the Winning for Our Future PAC missed this open shot. Good job. They misrepresented the issue so badly that they embarrassed Gingrich more than Romney. A simple representation of the facts should be enough to falsify a claim if it is wrong, however if the claim is write, it should have been left alone. It is now uncertain if the Winning for Our Future PAC had any traction to their claim because their credibility was lost. All in all, “King of Bain: When Romney Comes to Town” is a complete fiasco. Go back to the drawing board and try again!!
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