Mitt Romney

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Views on Mitt Romney

According to Joshua Green, he could have turned his business experience into an asset rather than a liability, since he performed a useful function for the economy. Even Bill Clinton has lauded his "sterling career" as a businessman. Instead of putting that career at the center of his campaign, Romney has taken pains to avoid it. After an early attempt to portray himself as a “job creator” who put 100,000 people to work, he mostly dropped the subject of his time at Bain Capital. Ceding that story allowed his opponents to frame the race around the most unflattering details of his career—layoffs, plant closings—stripped of their broader context, and to portray Romney as a vulture capitalist.[2]


  1. "Mitt Romney biography",, referenced 2012-11-17.
  2. Green, Joshua (1 November 2012). "Mitt Romney's Missed Opportunity". Bloomberg Businessweek.