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Mother Jones's David Corn has a report out this morning that pushes the continuing attacks on Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital forward not just because of the business it involves — disposing of aborted fetuses — but because it extends the length of time he worked at Bain. According to Securities and Exchange Commission documents, Romney was involved in Bain's investment in a company called Stericycle in late 1999. What did Stericycle do? Well, it was a fast-growing, profitable medical waste company. But it also had some problems, such as getting fined for keeping body parts and dead animals in unmarked containers or exposing workers to tuberculosis. And then there were the fetuses. Romney now describes himself as "adamantly pro-life" now but embraced pro-choice positions on abortion in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Back when Bain was involved with Stericycle, anti-abortion activists have waged a campaign against the company.
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Will this matter to the abortion fanatics?
 
Can't speak for the anti-abortion side, but it's a non-issue for me.

As long as they for the most part complied with the laws in handling medical waste, it's a necessary function and someone obviously has to do it.

Were they overall a bad operation? It sounds like the equivalent of maybe getting a couple speeding tickets.
 
Puppycow said:
Can't speak for the anti-abortion side, but it's a non-issue for me.

As long as they for the most part complied with the laws in handling medical waste, it's a necessary function and someone obviously has to do it.

Were they overall a bad operation? It sounds like the equivalent of maybe getting a couple speeding tickets.
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But he made money off of the abortion industry. According to the anti-abortion zealots, that's like helping Hitler dispose of Jews because someone had to do it.

They're not folks know for their nuanced positions on the matter.
 
Those zealots aren't going to vote Obama, because they dislike him that much. They also aren't going to not vote, because they dislike Obama that much. Unless there is more to this story, it will get no traction even among the zealots. To everyone else, it's already a non-story.
 
I doubt that this will make much of a ripple. The Obama camp won't push it because they don't want abortion to become an issue. Plus, Romney will have plausible deniability because "he was just looking at the books, not the day-to-day operations". It will have a little bit of life in liberal backrooms and will probably make a few rounds at Facebook, but I really don't expect this to be any kind of issue for the majority of voters.
 
Tricky said:
I doubt that this will make much of a ripple. The Obama camp won't push it because they don't want abortion to become an issue. Plus, Romney will have plausible deniability because "he was just looking at the books, not the day-to-day operations". It will have a little bit of life in liberal backrooms and will probably make a few rounds at Facebook, but I really don't expect this to be any kind of issue for the majority of voters.
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Romney's running for prez on the strength of his business management experience. He can't turn around and claim that he doesn't know anything about the operations side of the business. It's a giant foot bullet.

No, for this he'll just claim with a straight face that it's not true, and move on.
 

Peggy Sue
Got pregnant
And was addicted to fifteen drugs
She went down
To the abortion clinic
And was accosted
By right wing thugs

Oh will the fetus
Be aborted
By and by Lord
By and by
There's a better
Home awaiting
In the sky Lord
In the sky

Little Mary
Was just eleven
And she was raped
By her own dad
Danny Quayle said
Have that baby
But another choice
She had

Oh will the fetus
Be aborted
By and by Lord
By and by
There's a better
Home awaiting
In the sky Lord
In the sky

Annie's pregnancy
Would kill her
Doctor's warning
Gave her strife
Fundamentalists
Said Jesus take her
She said, I want
My right to life

Oh will the fetus
Be aborted
By and by Lord
By and by
There's a better
Home awaiting
In the sky Lord
In the sky

Kathy had two
Kids already
And an abortion
Is what she chose
Christian showed her
A bloody fetus
She said That's fine
I'll have one of those.

Oh will the fetus
Be aborted
By and by Lord
By and by
There's a better
Home awaiting
In the sky Lord
In the sky

Tanya lived for
Revolution
Wanted to overthrow
The state
She had fifteen
Commie babies
Phylis Schlafly
Ain't that great?

Or will the fetus
Be aborted...

Jello Biafra
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I figure if a guy can make a buck off of aborted fetuses, he'd make a heck of a president. I'm voting Romney in 2012.
 
Unabogie said:
Will this matter to the abortion fanatics?
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Why would it? Romney is at least paying lip service to pro-life positions now. That's still got to be preferable to them to an explicitly, actively, and deeply pro-choice candidate.
 
hgc said:
Romney's running for prez on the strength of his business management experience. He can't turn around and claim that he doesn't know anything about the operations side of the business. It's a giant foot bullet.
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The senior leadership at my company are all highly regarded businessmen, who were recruited and retained by the board specifically because of their extensive business management experience.

And yet, over the past decade that I have worked in operations, it has been abundantly clear that none of them have the slightest clue about the operations side of the business.


It's kind of amazing, really: our company dominates our market especially because our senior leadership has always had the utmost commitment to our operations. The domain in which we operate is absolutely critical to the fortunes of the company. The consistent rise of those fortunes is due in large part to the senior leadership's visionary insistence in doubling down, and doubling down again, on our operations.

But do they understand it? Do they know a single thing about it? Not a chance in hell. As visionary as they are, as committed as they are, we largely succeed in spite of them, not because of them.

So I have no problem envisioning a successful businessman who is largely unfamiliar with the details of his business's operations.
 
theprestige said:
So I have no problem envisioning a successful businessman who is largely unfamiliar with the details of his business's operations.
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We need a Chief Operations Executive, someone who knows what the company does and how to get it done.

We do not need a damned bean counter with no freaking clue how the company actually does what it does.
 
theprestige said:
The senior leadership at my company are all highly regarded businessmen, who were recruited and retained by the board specifically because of their extensive business management experience.
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Even if all that you said is true, it's not relevant to my post. I was commenting on the politics of the situation.
 
Well, good for Romney. He's applying to work for the federal government, which taxes the income of abortion doctors, profiting from it too. They could use people like that.
 
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