Just a quick diary to start a conversation....
Is Mitt Romney doing to the GOP the exact same thing that Bain, the company he ran for many years, did repeatedly to failing and flailing companies around the United States? The pattern was is well documented so I will be lazy and not link to it all, but you have surely read about it by now...
- Bain is brought in as a consultant to struggling companies
- Bain gets investors to pony up big money for a recovery
- Bain pays out huge salaries and bonuses to their consultants no matter how well or poorly their leadership plays out
- Eventually, Bain relieves themselves of the burden of the husk of the corporation, leaving it in bankruptcy
Let's compare that with what we are seeing today in the GOP.
- Romney buys his way to the GOP nomination, heralding himself as a super-techno Mr. Fix It for the party
- Romney and his campaign rake in vast quantities of cash from investors desperate to recapture the glory days of the GOP
- Romney campaign flounders, throws half-assed convention, gives big bonuses to staff anyway and pays big salaries for a fraction of the staff compared to President Obama's campaign
- Romney campaign spends tens of millions with consultants and cronies creating TV, radio and print ads
- Romney looks like a lock for a defeat in November, and will undoubtedly walk off into the sunset a richer man, as do his staffers and consultants
- Romney leaves behind a financially and morally bankrupt political party
Far fetched? Yeah, I suppose so, but gotta admit there is a bit of a similarity.
8:50 AM PT: As many have noted in the comments, Romney's Bainification of the GOP is even more of a reason why Dems must push even harder in the coming weeks on downballot races. Here's the Orange to Blue fundraising page. Drop them a dime for every chuckle you get out of this diary. :)
12:57 PM PT: Just a quick hat tip to a couple others published similar theories recently... this diary from Bilge and this comment from llwrch both hit a similar theme. Check em out.