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After a weekend during which Mitt Romney’s rivals slammed his record at Bain Capital, citing The New York Times and the Washington Post in their attacks, conservative pundit Michelle Malkin took a bleak look at their anti-Wall Street push:
Mitt Romney’s chronic flip-flopping political career is teeming with reasons to oppose his nomination — from his support for racial preferences, to government funding of abortion, liberal judges, global warming enviro-nitwittery, TARP, auto bailouts, the Obama stimulus, gun control, and of course, individual health insurance mandates that presaged Obamacare. Instead of focusing on his long political record of expedience, incompetent non-Romneys have morphed into Michael Moore propagandists — throwing not just Bain Capital under the bus, but wealth creators of all kinds who take risks in the private marketplace.We’re screwed.
Malkin claimed that Republicans are parroting broader attacks from the Left, and she has a point. BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski noted on Twitter this morning that the anti-Bain message was first used against Romney by Ted Kennedy in their 1994 Senate race, which Romney lost.
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— Max J. Rosenthal
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