Remember how back in the Reagan administration the Reagan administration was caught selling weapons to the Iranians and then using the profits to fund death squads who raped nuns in El Salvador, and then when they were caught Reagan said “Whoops, well, I didn’t know and I’m sure everybody was just trying to do the right thing” and then Oliver North went and testified before Congress and said, sure, we did it, because we’re such great patriots and love our country and he didn’t go to jail but got elected to congress instead?
Nuns who were murdered by Romney’s financial backers
Oliver Stone made a movie about it, especially the nun raping part.
Anyway, the problem with horribly scandalous events which get left unresolved is they tend to come back and bite you in the ass. Now, it turns out that Mitt Romney was a financial beneficiary of some of the death squad honchos (who were financed, you will recall, by Reagan’s sale of weapons to the Iranians, who let all the American hostages go on the first day he took office, in a big slap in the face to Jimmy Carter).
In fact, they provided a lot of the funding to set up Bain Capital, the firm Mitt Romney set up to buy other firms, raid their assets and then fire all their employees, ruining people’s lives and making huge profits.
Will this be the final nail in the coffin of Mitt’s electoral chances? It should be, but then again, I thought the dog on the roof incident would do him in. If not that, then the High School bullying incident, surely. But he continued to hold steady in the polls, at between 40 and 45%. I thought when his Swiss and Cayman island bank accounts were exposed he was toast, but that barely caused a blip. I thought the revelation of how truly evil Bain Capital was would do it, but it didn’t seemed to bother Republicans. The revelation that he took a 77,000 dollar tax deduction for a dancing horse didn’t seem to make much difference at all to the people who went totally nuts over John Kerry’s elitist wind surfing. Now, he’s refusing to reveal any of his tax returns, something all presidential candidates do as a matter of course, and the people who formed the “Taxed Enough Already” party are saying, eh, no big deal.
So, I don’t think a little financial indebtedness to Central American warlords will make much of a difference. It was only headline news on the Huffington Post for about two hours.
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