Not-Romneys Commit Suicide

Seriously? 

It's a day like today that makes me wonder why in the heck I'm still a Republican.  Led by Newt Gingrich, the poster child for Egotistical Politicians International, the "Not-Romney" presidential candidates are attacking Mitt Romney's former company, Bain Capital, on the grounds that a few companies (3 or 4) in which Bain Capital  invested or had an ownership interest were forced to lay off workers and/or file for bankruptcy.   Let's consider a few items:

1.  Companies are supposed to make a profit.  That way they can keep people employed and allow their shareholders to make a positive return on their investments.  But sometimes companies fail.   

2.  In their criticisms, the Not-Romneys are studiously ignoring the hundreds of successful companies Bain Capital owned or invested in and the millions (billions?) of dollars and many, many thousands of people they employed - who are still employed, and working for companies that are still producing a profit. 

3.  I have yet to hear a Not-Romney detail what he would have done differently in the face of a failing company.  Are they actually suggesting Romney should have gone to the federal government to ask for a bailout in order to keep those companies running and their people employed?  Or that the employees should have been kept on even though the companies were failing?  These men understand that failure is one of the potential consequences of a free economy.  But after unanimously asserting in every debate that government doesn't create jobs - companies create jobs - they're now throwing manure on one of the most successful job-creating companies in American history. 

4.  The hypocrisy of the Not-Romneys is astonishing.  Even as they criticize Obama and his followers for subsidizing and bailing out private companies with taxpayer dollars, they lambaste Romney, who didn't add a dime to the national debt while trying to turn around a few companies that were just too far gone to succeed. 

5.  Have the Not-Romneys actually listened to the perfect sound-bites they're providing to the Democrats?  They're already being quoted ad nauseum during the Republican primaries.  Can they not envision the damage they're going to cause during the general election?  Can they not imagine that even if one of them manages to prevail over Romney, that such anti-capitalist statements will be slung back in his face?  They're  sounding as socialist as the guy they're trying to beat in November.  Political suicide. 

6.  I'm equally disgusted with the "fair and balanced" commentators on Fox News.  Fox News!!! Are you kidding me???!!!  They've jumped on the Not-Romney wagon along with the candidates on the Bain Capital issue - sounding just like their counterparts on CNN and MSNBC. Shepard Smith practically screamed at a Romney supporter about how Bain Capital laid off employees, interrupting him several times to keep repeating the same thing over and over.   Juan Williams, the Democratic commentator, caught the irony of the situation  but Smith was too obtuse to see it.