Labor-backed Americans United for Change has launched a campaign to call attention to Mitt Romney’s history as a venture capitalist with Bain Capital. (h/t Steve Benen) As most people know, Romney made a lot of money while he was with Bain by buying up distressed companies at fire-sale prices, breaking them up, selling them off, and putting a lot of people out of work. Of course, he didn’t do it all by himself – he had plenty of taxpayer subsidies to help him “earn” all that money.
Americans United for Change had the bright idea to directly connect Mitt Romney with fictional venture capitalist Gordon Gekko, memorably portrayed by Michael Douglas in 1987’s Wall Street:
The thing is . . . I think this campaign can only help Romney in the Republican primary. And I don’t say that snarkily or sarcastically.
