I'm surprised that nobody has made this connection yet and used it humorously to keep driving the point home. When you have someone down, you keep them down. This is not the time to let up on this vein. This is the definition from dictionary.com. You can find your own definitions and have fun with it too. Waiting for some commentator to pick this thread up and have fun with it too but have not seen it yet.
bane
[beyn] Show IPA
noun
1.a person or thing that ruins or spoils: Gambling was the bane of his existence.
2.a deadly poison (often used in combination, as in the names of poisonous plants): wolfsbane; henbane.
3.death; destruction; ruin.
4.Obsolete . that which causes death or destroys life: entrapped and drowned beneath the watery bane.
1.a person or thing that ruins or spoils: Gambling was the bane of his existence.
I think this is pretty well documented. Bain's business model was clearly to ruin a number of these companies by piling up tax deductible debt to pay Bain and then declare bankruptcy and leave the liabilities(pensions etc.) to be paid off by the taxpayers.
2.a deadly poison (often used in combination, as in the names of poisonous plants): wolfsbane; henbane.
You can see above or ask Mitt's campaign. Bain is proving to be the bane of their election campaign.
3.death; destruction; ruin.
That which has happened to thousands of people that were impacted by Bain and that which will happen to all of us if Mr. Bane(now there's a catchy name to hang on him) is elected.
4.Obsolete . that which causes death or destroys life: entrapped and drowned beneath the watery bane.
I love this one but don't know which way to go with it. Clearly his policy proposals are all obsolete(other than romneycare which he is retroactively disavowing!!!)