who don t believe that attacking bain capital and the essence of their business of private equity is smart. ed rendell who used to run the d.n.c., the celtics owner jonathan levine who gave $200,000 to the obama campaign and was on one of the bain capital investment boards, he was and there was an ad ripping what bain capital did with ampad, this guy was on the board and i assume a supporter and senator mark warner, democrat from virginia thinks bain capital was a successful base and got a good return for investors. that s what they re supposed to do. that s a lot of people who think the whole premise of the argument is wrong. and the former venture capitalist himself, senator warner might know a thing or two about how private equity works. this is an attack basically on what we have deemed success in this country. and mitch mcconnell yesterday really pointed that out. he said the whole notion of earned success and capitalism seems to be under attack by
this administration. so isn t it the effort of any business to try to do the best job it can and make the most money it can? forget private equity. isn t that how business works in general? i ll tell you what, we know for sure the number one reason that somebody is going to vote for somebody for president in november will be the economy. which of the two men, will it be obama or romney most qualified to get us out of this ditch as mitt romney s campaign referred to yesterday. when you look at mitt romney, sure he ran bain capital but also ran the state of massachusetts. he also ran the olympics. what did the president of the united states do before he was president? well, he was a state senator. he was senator for u.s. senator for 100 some odd days before he started his presidential campaign. he was a law lecturer and he was also, you know, a community organizer. one thing the president said yesterday that qualified jay tapper of abc to ask this question is the president came out
the problem is there are no attack ads running by romney or any republican or conservative group linking the president to his former pastor jeremiah wright. but the obama campaign is running attack ads on romney s record at the private equity firm bain capital right now, shep. shepard: president obama said this is a legitimate campaign issue, his record in business that he was touting as one of his reasons that people should vote for him for president. that s right. and by all accounts, all of the attacks on bain aren t making much different and it was a successful company. about 80% of the undertakings have been profitable or saved and created jobs but the attacks seem to be a wash. the latest washington post poll says 21% consider romney s business record a major reason to vote for him while 21% say it s a reason to vote against him. and 54% say it s really not a major factor at all and as for whether or not it s anti-free enterprise or fair game, it s worth noting that earli
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