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Offline CaseAgainstFaith

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Bain Capital (Romneys old firm) donates more to Democrats
« on: May 21, 2012, 02:55:00 pm »
We all know that Bain Capital, Mitt Romney’s former firm, is the paragon of capitalist evil, destroying the middle class in order to enrich greedy vulture oligarchs. We also all know that the Democratic Party is the defender of the middle class and the bold adversary of corporate pillaging. That’s why these facts generate so much cognitive dissonance:

    Democrats have accepted more political donations than Republicans from executives at Bain Capital, complicating the left’s plan to attack Mitt Romney for his record at the private-equity firm.

    During the last three election cycles, Bain employees have given Democratic candidates and party committees more than $1.2 million. The vast majority of that sum came from senior executives.

    Republican candidates and party committees raised over $480,000 from senior Bain executives during that time period.

While Romney himself has received more contributions from his former firm than Obama has, “President Obama received a sizable share as well.” More generally, “campaign finance records show that Democrats collect more money from Wall Street than does the GOP.”

source - http://mobile.salon.com/2012/05/21/democrats_and_bain_2/

I find this to be funny.  I guess Romney didn't have that many friends over at Bain.
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Re: Bain Capital (Romneys old firm) donates more to Democrats
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2012, 04:35:09 pm »
Investment banks and consulting houses donate huge amounts to both major parties, for the purpose of cultivating political influence.  No surprise here.
Read some real news:  Allgov.com, JURIST

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Re: Bain Capital (Romneys old firm) donates more to Democrats
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2012, 07:49:40 pm »
We all know that Bain Capital, Mitt Romney’s former firm, is the paragon of capitalist evil, destroying the middle class in order to enrich greedy vulture oligarchs. We also all know that the Democratic Party is the defender of the middle class and the bold adversary of corporate pillaging. That’s why these facts generate so much cognitive dissonance:
The problem is that neither of these assertions are actually correct.

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Re: Bain Capital (Romneys old firm) donates more to Democrats
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2012, 08:36:50 pm »
For obvious reasons they're simply putting their money on the winning horse. No surprises there.