Barry Bennett wishes that he had not been so prescient. It was Bennett, more than anybody else, who most dramatically pushed Mitt Romney’s stewardship of Bain Capital into the 2012 campaign. He did that as a staunch conservative trying to sidetrack Romney’s drive to the Republican nomination during the South Carolina primary battle in January.
He produced King of Bain: When Mitt Romney Came to Town, a scathing 28-minute documentary that cast Bain as a soulless corporate raider and featured the faces and voices of those left jobless in the Bain wake. Under withering assault from Romney partisans and other conservatives uncomfortable with attacks on such companies, Bennett at the time warned his fellow Republicans that he was raising questions that should be answered before — not after — they crown Romney as their nominee. Referring to President Obama’s top strategist, he predicted then that “David Axelrod is going to have a heyday with this, and Republicans need to know this story before we nominate this guy.”
Well, welcome to the heyday, courtesy of David Axelrod — and courtesy of those many Republicans who so effectively silenced questions from Bennett and like-minded conservatives. Questions that Romney fumbled in his 1994 race for the Senate, sidestepped in his 2008 run for president and tried to ignore in the 2012 primaries have come to dominate the current phase of the GOP effort to deny Obama a second term. Recalling his January prediction, Bennett says today, “Unfortunately, it has come true.” Of the current attacks, he said sadly, “I don’t think we’ll see the end of them.”
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