Romney's "Summer of Bain" = Swift Boat 2.0 ?

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Much like Swift Boat exposed the key weakness of the Kerry Campaign, this has the capacity to do the same to Romney if they aren't careful.

The key problem for Kerry was that he didn't respond quickly enough the allegations, clearly he hoped it would all go away. Like many Rovian tactics, this relied on a lot of luck and the ineptness of the Kerry people on this certainly provided that.

I do have a problem with this line of questioning being referred to as Swift boating, the SB movement was a creation of the Rove machine and paid for by Bush supporters. These questions about Romney are reasonable, because their catalyst lies within easily available documents. I think most would accept his name remaining on documents in 2000, but why does he still appear with multiple roles 3 years after he himself said had retired. Like the Kerry campaign, the response from Camp Romney has been appalling, no one is denying the docs are genuine, but they're not answering the key question of whyhe appears for those 3 additional years. They needed to be faster and smarter on this than they have been.

Swift-boats didn't kill Kerry's campaign, but it added to the narrative the Bush people were trying to create, so while most realised it was garbage, it allowed enough doubt to creep in to assist in the creation of this picture. Romney is in a similar situation, Obama has been trying to establish the narrative that he's without firm convictions, except wanting to help out his rich friends, exported jobs OS and that he's hiding something about his financial dealings... The difference between this as the Kerry scenario is that the scandal existed in a place that a high school newspaper reporter could have found it and come to the same conclusion as the Globe.