I was fast asleep 10 minutes ago, but my brain does this awful problem-solving thing where I dream heavily about something that was bothering me. Tonight, unfortunately, it was about why Mitt Romney is so afraid to release his financial records, including around Bain Cap time.
The questions were twofold:
1. What could possibly be so bad that not releasing the records is less damaging than releasing them, AND
2. Honestly, Mitt doesn't look like he could successfully run a lemonade stand so (and yes I know there were others helping) how was it so profitable? [More after the fold]
The conclusion my sleep-addled brain came up with is war profiteering. There were several wars happening around the time of Bain's inception - a couple of them in the Middle East. If Bain had strategically invested in war supply companies (as sometimes I wish I could have with Blackwater or Halliburton), then they could have turned a very healthy profit.
Now down to Mitt's "it's really bad but I can't look away" policies of "shoot first, aim later". I'm sure he still has many ties to Bain plus him being POTUS would really start back up that war machine (no Iron Man reference intended), for the money to start flowing again in his and his friends' directions.
His trigger-happiness plus his hands in war-company pots would have a negative effect on his campaign, along the lines of the dems skewering him as "another Bush" or worse, a Cheney.
We really need to follow the money.