(ThyBlackMan.com) Does Mitt Romney have a political death wish? When I heard him utter the phrase, “There are plenty of reasons to vote against Mitt Romney…,” I cringed, imagining endless repetition of this sound byte in the attack ads that will be the basis of the Obama re-election campaign, funded with hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign cash.
Why on earth would a smart guy like Romney hand Obama a video moment so damaging to his cause?
Then there is this, a picture surfaced from the past, and certain to become ubiquitous once the GOP is committed to Mitt:
It comes from a 2008 set of articles in the Boston Globe, so it is hardly obscure. The picture was taken during Mitt’s days at Bain Capital, where a group of very smart guys, intoxicated with all the money they were earning by buying up faltering companies (with other people’s money) and fixing them (in classic Harvard Business School fashion), made a lot of money.
I can understand the cultural milieu from which this picture sprang, for I graduated from Harvard Business School the year after Mitt did, and like him, I was a Baker Scholar, courted by the highest-paying recruiters who trolled the graduating classes looking for bright, hardworking talent. In that era, Bain & Company (the consulting firm which birthed Bain Capital as a means of acquiring much bigger bucks than the high wages of a consultant on an hourly billing scheme) was one of the highest-paying, along with Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Company. Bain was known for placing a particular emphasis on brains and aggression, and it paid slightly more than its rivals, being newer and (at the time) less established.
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