After weeks of getting hit on his business record at Bain Capital, Willard MittRomney
...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the presumptive Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney's charisma is best defined as soporific, which is probably why he is leading the Publican field. On the plus side, he isn't President B.O...
is flipping the script and attacking President B.O. on his administration's performance helping green energy
... the attempt to produce energy without using fossil fuel. The preferred methods are solar, wind, geothermal, phlogiston, philosophers' stones, and rattling bears' teeth. The approach with the most promise involves attaching generators to perpetual motion machines, but using Words of Power to summon energy-rich demons may also work. The
greenin the term refers to the vast number of greenbacks that have been thrown at the problem since 1973 with indifferent results...
companies.
In its latest bruising Web video, the Romney campaign points to Solyndra,
...a green
technological winnerpicked by the B.O. regime that cost the taxpayers a half billion dollars, with the added benefit of the campaign contributors who put money into the project getting paid before the taxpayers when the wreckage went up for sale...
a solar energy company that filed for bankruptcy after receiving $535 million in loan guarantees from the federal government. The video points to several other companies, such as ECOtality and First Solar, that also lost money and cut jobs after receiving federal loan guarantees.
"More than $16 billion have gone to companies like Solyndra that are linked to big Obama and Democrat donors," the narrator says. "Obama is giving taxpayer money to big donors, and then watching them lose it. Good for them. Bad for us."
Republicans in Congress have consistently hammered the B.O. regime on Solyndra, but Romney has not followed this line of attack for several months. Back in January, Romney said that Obama was a "venture capitalist in Solyndra" and a "private equity guy in Chrysler and General Motors."