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Say It Again: BAIN!
The current attacks on Mitt Romney are good for his candidacy and his campaign.
Both pundits and organized groups on the right are unhappy that Mitt Romney's opponents are attempting to sink Mitt's campaign by disparaging his time at Bain Capital.
But the early election process centers on nominating the best candidate for the job.
Did anyone believe that the Democrats weren't going to raise the issue?
Romney needs to face this type of attack now for two reasons:
1) It allows his campaign to find an effective answer for the attack.
2) It gets Romney beyond the issue early.
If Romney becomes the nominee having faced the "Bain" attacks, it relegates the tactic to yesterday's news. There is no chance that the Obama campaign would center its closing argument in November 2012 around this tactic: "I'll say it again: BAAAAAAAIN!" The Obama campaign will need to find some other talking point to move the polls.
And if the attacks do prevent Romney's nomination, it will be because GOP voters think that the chief executive of a private-equity firm is not the candidate to be running in the general election. Romney needs to make his case that his experience in turning around failing businesses (and failing enterprises like the Salt Lake City Olympics) makes him the ideal candidate for the presidency during an anemic economy.