Oh yes, Mitt did. The GOP’s nominee went and had himself a press event outside the empty husk that once housed the pride of Barack Obama’s greendoggle public equity failures: Solyndra. Here’s a photo that’s hitting the Twitter. Mitt Romney, I am starting to like the cut of your jib sir.
President Obama burned half a billion taxpayer dollars on Solyndra, a government-backed loan that went to several of his political supporters. If we had a real mainstream media, it would hound Obama about the obvious corruption that the Solyndra deal implies.
But instead, let’s just note a couple of facts. While Mitt Romney helmed Bain Capital, it invested billions of private money in hundreds of companies and racked up a 78% success rate and truly created or saved thousands of jobs. Obama’s success rate investing billions of dollars in taxpayer money in politically correct ventures have so far racked up something in the neighborhood of a zero success rate. As the Washington Post put it, Obama’s greendoggles tended to privatize any profits while socializing the losses. Which means you and I lost money while Obama’s pals and supporters piled it up, some of which went right back to support Obama’s re-election.
I oppose the government investing in Solyndras and Ener1s and similar ventures, but if we’re going to do it, shouldn’t we at least have a competent investor with a real business track record making the calls? Duh.
Update: Just to make it official, Mitt checked into Solyndra on Foursquare. He added that it was “great fun” looking at the “Taj Mahal which is known as Solyndra.” Rush is right: This is not the McCain campaign. Thank goodness.
Dovetails nicely with Romney’s latest ad. Solyndra plays a pivotal part.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQUyS9H6ioI&feature=player_embedded
– corn?!
Well we were wondering if Mitt had any; looks like he has a pair.
“Mitt Romney, I am starting to like the cut of your jib sir.”
There are negative things to not like about Mitt, but I agree with this sentiment entirely, I am starting to warm to his positives!
MSM take on this photo op: “Mitt Romney had no events scheduled on Thursday. Look … a squirrel!”
I think Mitt should schedule all of his press conferences in front of shuttered “green” energy companies. Dare the press to ignore the story then.
I love it!
(And I wasn’t enthused about Romney in the beginning, to say the least.)
I love the weeds in the background.
Good to see Mitt playing some offense. You can’t win with only defense.
Spot on that Mitt is not McCain.
Would like to comment on something that struck me from the picture about the mindset of the people who ran Solyndra. Solyndra is a firm that has never made a profit, no proven products (lots of big ideas) and yet the corporate staff has to have this beautiful building. The original start up mindset was every penny you had went to growing the company, management people would set up in old warehouses with old wooden cable spools for desks. Now I guess the friends of Obama feel they are entitled to all the perks before they produce anything.
Very well said, and the beautiful facade may have been what appealed to our historically firstest and bestest president. The man has no business sense, but he’s swayed by pretty things.