Good analogy. But I often see this distaste for corporate vultures among conservatives, most notably from Ben Stein when he wrote about the issue back in the 1980s with the American Spectator. From memory, he decried that sort of business as serving no valuable purpose whatsoever. And him the son of Herbert Stein, the great economist, no less.
The way I look at corporate vultures is simple: if a company’s management has gone so sour that the company is worth more in pieces than it is whole, then that company has been badly mismanaged and it’s time to put the assets in the hands of someone who’s better at managing them.
If that’s what Romney did for a living, I see nothing dishonorable about it. But, with Ben Stein as my template, I believe that a conservative can sincerely believe that.
