The fight’s on for America’s future - NYPOST.com
Paul Ryan has suddenly made Bain Capital B-material — and signaled, finally, that Mitt Romney is ready to fight.
Until Saturday morning, I was set to write about the rising unrest among Romney’s big Wall Street and business-community donors about Romney’s failure to counter the main thrust of President Obama’s re-election effort: distortions and outright lies over Romney’s time as head of private equity firm Bain Capital that sought to portray him as a greedy Robber Baron.
It didn’t matter that the attacks were mostly wrong — that, though Bain under Romney invested in some clinkers that failed, the firm actually helped grow far more successful jobs creating companies, like Staples and The Sports Authority chain.
Romney’s business-community backers fretted that their candidate wasn’t up to the task, and the country would have to endure four more years of Obamanomics with its constant attacks on wealth creators crippling taxes, massive deficits and persistently high unemployment.
But naming Paul Ryan as his running mate is a game changer. The pick signals that Romney was listening to his critics and is now ready to fight — not necessarily over how many jobs he created at Bain and how many steel mills he didn’t close, but over how best to repair the damage Obama has done to the once-mighty US economy
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