{"id":9727,"date":"2012-01-14T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T15:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=9727"},"modified":"2012-01-14T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T15:02:09","slug":"romney-the-job-cremator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/01\/14\/romney-the-job-cremator\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney, The Job Cremator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just had to make this post.\u00a0 The title comes from a comment about <em>The Talking Points Memo<\/em> article <a title=\"Talking Points Memo article\" href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/01\/is-the-bain-capital-story-peaking-too-early.php?ref=fpb\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dems Prepare To Hammer Romney With The REAL Bain Onslaught<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c[If] Romney wins the nomination, this early fuss might have inoculated him against the Scrooge gambit,\u201d TIME columnist Joe Klein wrote.\u201dThe public may feel Bain is same old, same old by October.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t buy it, Democrats say. Even while they acknowledge that they planned to roll out the Bain angle later for a reason, they find it pretty hard to contain their grins overall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have preferred to wait, yes, to keep the bottle of whup-ass fresher,\u201d one Obama campaign strategist told TPM. \u201cAt the same time \u2014 and this is important to note \u2014 having the Republicans eat their own actually makes the Bain story more potent than we ever could because it instantly validates it as a line of attack and falls on independent ears as a matter of legitimate debate, not as a partisan line of attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And when the real Bain attack comes, it will be anything but old news to the voters it needs to reach. After all, it\u2019s hardcore Republicans who are paying the closest attention to the GOP campaign and its Bain moment right now, and they\u2019re not voting for President Obama anytime soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I like the article, some of the comments are real gems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had to make this post.\u00a0 The title comes from a comment about The Talking Points Memo article Dems Prepare To Hammer Romney With The REAL Bain Onslaught. \u201c[If] Romney wins the nomination, this early fuss might have inoculated him against the Scrooge gambit,\u201d TIME columnist Joe Klein wrote.\u201dThe public may feel Bain is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9729,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9727\/revisions\/9729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}