Romney On Creating 100k Jobs: I Feel Strange Having To Explain Venture Capital To Republicans | Talking Points Memo

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addressed the charge that he uses fuzzy math to support his claim that he created 100,000 jobs as CEO of Bain Capital by pivoting to a full throated defense of capitalism more generally. “I’ll do the math but let me tell you, I know we’re going to get attacked from left, from Barack Obama, on capitalism,” he said. “I find it kind of strange on a stage like this with republicans having to describe how private equity and venture capital work and how they’re successful and how they create jobs.”


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