In an astonishingly illogical argument, even for Michael Kinsley, he feebly tries to make a case that the patently false Joe Soptic pro Obama commercial is not just true, but that it doesn’t go far enough in impugning Mitt.
Kinsley:
The ad is certainly tough and effective, but is it dishonest? It does not accuse Romney of murder. It does accuse him of indirect responsibility for a woman’s death. It says that because the woman’s husband lost his job and his health insurance when Bain Capital bought his company and closed his plant, the woman was slow to get medical care when she started feeling ill, and as a result was diagnosed with stage four cancer — terminal — when she finally sought help. She died shortly thereafter.
Kinsley combines so many untruths in this brief paragraph one could be excused for believing Barry Hussein Soetoro Obama wrote it himself. Let’s start with, “bought his company and closed his plant . . .” Bain Capital funded GS Technologies which became GST Steel Company and bought Armco Worldwide Grinding Systems is 1993. The plant failed in 2001 and was liquidated. And, even though Progressives are innumerate, eight years can hardly constitute “bought . . and closed” in any rational context. Further, in 1997 the plant sustained a 10-week strike, no-doubt participated in by Joe Soptic and that no-doubt crippled the failing plant in a failing industry. Finally of course is the notion that an investor has a duty to continue funding a losing enterprise merely to maintain employment and presumably health insurance. So obviously Kinsley must be a Marxist, the ideator who gave us communism and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the U.S.S.R. and its success. Oh, right. It lies athwart the slag-heap of history.
Kinsley:
Critics say that when her husband was let go, the woman still had health insurance through her own employer, but lost it when she had to quit her own job due to unrelated medical problems. Well, so what? Any story like this is going to involve a series of misfortunes. It remains true that but for Bain’s decision to close the plant, she would have been covered by her husband’s insurance.
This argument from Kinsley exceeds stupidity by some orders of magnitude! Ranae Soptic left her job voluntarily with full knowledge that her husband was uninsured and earning $15,000 a year as a custodian, a long fall from his steelworker wages of $46,000. It may have been an unfortunate choice, but it was her free will. And the “unrelated medical problems” Kinsley refers to? Headaches! So, her choice to resolve “medical problems” was to abandon her health insurance. That is beyond stupid. Oh, inquiring minds want to know: Was Ranae a smoker?
Kinsley:
By the time the plant was closed, Romney was no longer in charge of day-to-day decisions at Bain. Again, so what? He still had overall responsibility for the company. He wants credit as a brilliant entrepreneur for his time at Bain. If a decision to close a plant and lay off hundreds of workers was considered so minor as to be unworthy of his attention, that says something about Romney and the culture he built at the company. Maybe layoffs were essential, or at least a good idea. But a good corporate leader should at least have had input on a decision that everyone knows will cause pain.
Here, Kinsley must be making a pathetic attempt at humor. He can’t possibly be serious. If he is, it is an indictment of Barry Hussein Soetoro Obama that calls for more than removal – it calls for criminal indictment, conviction and execution. If Mitt isn’t distant from Bain two years after leaving to run the Salt Lake City Olympics; if Mitt is responsible for every executive decision in a portfolio of many company investments; if Mitt will be held to account, it is your duty to remember Nidal Malik Hasan, a general officer in the United States Army, the same army for which Mr. Obama is Commander in Chief, a Constitutional duty far greater than a mere private sector chief executive. Mr. Obama was, and still is, Colonel Hasan’s superior officer, directly responsible for his failings and felonies.
Kinsley:
It is uncontested that lack of insurance is what killed this woman.
What?! Damn, we thought medical care was the best prescription to remedy illness. Little did we know that death can be prevented not by good health care, but rather by buying insurance. Maybe the Progressives are right. And, eat your broccoli.
Sadly, the Romney brain-trust, as amoebic as it is, will not fight back against these sub-human assaults, instead contentedly reminding us of what we know – Mr. Obama’s economy is weak. Duh!
Sane and Insane 