Mitt Romney repeatedly condemned a Super PAC’s preliminary plan to use Jeremiah Wright in ads against President Obama, but complained to reporters in Florida on Thursday that Obama’s campaign was engaged in “character assassination” of their own by running ads highlighting layoffs at companies bought by Bain Capital.
“My work at Bain was to try to make the enterprises more successful, to grow them,” he said. “There is this fiction that some have that somehow you can be highly successful by stripping assets from enterprise and walking away with a lot of money…there may be some people that know how to do that. I sure don’t.”
He continued: “The purpose of the president’s ads are not to describe success and failure but to somehow suggest that I’m not a good person or not a good guy. And I think the American people will know better than that if they don’t already. This really should be a campaign about the future, about who can get America on track again to create good jobs, who can do a better job for our kids. It is about jobs and kids. And having a campaign focused on character assassination is one of the things I find offensive among many others in the PAC description that came in the New York Times. If that’s accurate, why, obviously that’s something I repudiate.”
