RMoney’s campaign is making increasingly desperate statements defending, denying, and obfuscating his apparent continued stewardship of Bain Capital from 1999 to 2002 and trying to turn the ship around before it hits an iceberg. On CNN’s State of the Union yesterday, Romney adviser Ed Gillespie told Candy Crowley that the presidential candidate had “retroactively retired” from Bain Capital. Gillespie was asked to clarify the 1999 Press Release from Bain announcing that Romney would be taking a part-time leave of absence to manage the 2002 Winter Olympics.
He took a leave of absence from his company to go save the Olympics. There may have been thought at the time that it could be part time. It was not part time. The Olympics was in a shambles. There was corruption. He took a leave of absence and in fact, Candy, he ended up not going back at all and retired retroactively to February of 1999 as a result.
I think it’s safe to say that Retroactively Retired will find an immediate place in the political lexicon just as the phrases Job Creators, Activist Judges, and Compassionate Conservatism have.
How would y’all use this new, exiting phrase?
Thanks to Dancing Queen for the suggestion.
