I think many Democrats would argue that what Mitt Romney alleges to be his greatest strength—his time at Bain Capital—is actually his greatest weakness. Gingrich is about to shine a light directly on that time:
The effort to derail Mitt Romney’s presidential quest heightened dramatically on Friday when a super PAC associated with Newt Gingrich outbid all comers for the rights to a scathing 30-minute attack video depicting Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate raider “more ruthless than Wall Street.”
In a season filled with negative ads and rhetorical crossfire, the striking feature of the film, aside from its mini-documentary length, is its authorship. The film was made by Jason Killian Meath, a former associate of Romney’s top strategists, Stuart Stevens and Russ Schriefer. Meath had worked for the Romney campaign in 2008, creating much of the ad content for that failed effort. He left Stevens and Schriefer’s firm, SSG, in 2010. Meath declined to comment on his project, referring inquiries to the pro-Gingrich PAC Winning Our Future.
“We’re going to release a short, 27-minute film that is well-documented, and tells the real story of Mitt Romney at Bain Capital—and it’s not a pretty story,” says Rick Tyler, an adviser to the Gingrich-supporting PAC.
The video is called When Mitt Romney Came to Town, and I can't wait to watch it. In the meantime, tonight's debate could turn out be something special, since it's Gingrich's first face-to-face with Romney since his debate-night mental breakdown over Romney's negative ads. We'll be live-Slogging the whole thing; join us here at 6 pm.
UPDATE: The trailer is live on a website named—I am not making this up—King of Bain. It links to another site, WhenMittRomneyCametoTown.com, which says the full video is coming soon. Here's the trailer: