Well, Mit Romney is once again demonstrating his Bain "business" expertise.
Several recent diaries have questioned the geographic strategy of Mittens' and Lyin Ryan's most recent "campaign" schedule.
Folks, theirs is NOT a campaign schedule. It is a Money Harvesting Schedule.
In today's front-paged diary, The curious case of the Romney-Ryan schedule, Markos asks:
What do Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Texas, and DC have to do with each other? The fact that Romney doesn't have a chance in hell of winning any of them The fact that none of these are competitive.
To put this in the proper perspective, one needs to go back to Mittens' "business" experience, and
by his own admission, the one thing Mittens is good at... (bolding mine)
Mother Jones has obtained a video from 1985 in which Romney, describing Bain's formation, showed how he viewed the firm's mission. He explained that its goal was to identify potential and hidden value in companies, buy significant stakes in these businesses, and then "harvest them at a significant profit" within five to eight years.
Mit Romney is now treating individual states and donors just like he has been treating his own campaign organization - liquidating the cash assets, paying huge bonuses to the top tier, and preparing them for bankruptcy.
According to the tape obtained by Mother Jones, here it is in Mit's own words:
Bain Capital is an investment partnership which was formed to invest in startup companies and ongoing companies, then to take an active hand in managing them and hopefully, five to eight years later, to harvest them at a significant profit…
Markos correctly identifies the problem, but his argument is made even stronger when one realizes Romney is doing the only thing Romney really knows how to do... gut things.
So that means taking precious and severely limited time off campaigning on the ground to hobnob with Romney's country club pals in states with zero electoral relevance.
Amazing how things travel full circle.