Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Is It Time For Romney To Also "Retroactively Retire" From the Salt Lake City Olympics?

I guess we now know why Romney was unwilling to join the bipartisan chorus of criticism concerning the manufacturing of U.S. Olympic uniforms in China:
For the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who has repeatedly promised on the trail to "get tough" on China, opposing the manufacturing seemed a likely stance, except that while at the helm of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Romney outsourced the production of torchbearer uniforms to Burma.

For Romney, the 2002 Olympics anecdote represents another instance of outsourcing under his stewardship, as President Barack Obama's reelection team continues to assail him for shipping jobs overseas while at private equity firm Bain Capital. It also exposes an embarrassing oversight in allowing the uniforms to be manufactured in Burma, which until just last year was controlled by a brutal military regime.
OK, let's see if I've got this straight: Romney's campaign cannot refer to Mitt's Governorship of Massachusetts because during his four years in that post, his state was 47th out of 50 in job creation, as Governor he supported a woman's right to choose (his words), and he enacted RomneyCare (nka ObamaCare). He also won't be able to campaign using his tenure at Bain Capital because of all the outsourcing and bankruptcies his company caused. Now it looks like he can't use his experience running the 2002 Winter Olympics because he outsourced in that endeavor as well.

It's a real problem for Romney -- given that he is running out of things to say about himself during the rest of the campaign. Maybe he can claim he took a leave of absence from the Olympics at the exact time someone else made the decision to outsource the uniforms to a brutal military regime?

One thing is for sure:  The GOP elite is so frustrated right now with how the campaign is going that they are practically using the "N" Word to describe Obama. Former New Hampshire Gov John Sununu spit out the following attack on the President this morning on . . . where else -- FoxNews:
"He has no idea how the American system functions. And we shouldn't be surprised about that, because he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia, another set of years in Indonesia, and, frankly, when he came to the U.S., he worked as a community organizer, which is a socialized structure, and then got into politics in Chicago."
Sununu also added:  "I wish this president would learn how to be an American."  Translation:  Obama is not only a Negro -- he's a foreign Negro!

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