Politics
Obama prepares for Romney
President Obama’s re-election team is already aggressively targeting former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, even as Romney is far from sealing the GOP nomination. Here’s a look at how they are trying to define the man mostly like to be President Obama opponent in November.
1. Turn Bain into pain
A super-pac funded by supporters of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is preparing to release on Wednesday a half-hour video full of criticisms of Romney’s tenure as head of the private equity firm Bain Capital.
On the website for King of Bain Romney is described as a “predatory corporate raider” and “the worst possible kind of predator.”
Obama aides couldn’t say it better themselves. Romney has cast his experience as a co-founder of Bain as evidence of his knowledge of job creation and the broader economy, in contrast with Obama’s careers in law and then politics.