Bain Of Their Existence? Patrick Officially Enters The Race

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Update: He kept the cash flow going to the last moment, too.

Better late than never? Better rich than never too, even in a Democratic presidential primary. At a point in time where the field should be narrowing, here comes Deval Patrick as a wannabe-come-lately into the 2020 mix. Savannah Guthrie picked up the news for NBC’s Today:

“I admire and respect the candidates in the Democratic field,” Patrick says in his campaign launch video, saying they make him proud to be a member of the party. Soooooo … why not just endorse one of them? Patrick never actually explains why there’s a crying need for his presence in a field twenty respectable and admirable candidates, but instead issues a few platitudes about delivering the path to the American dream (via Twitchy):

Speaking of closing off paths to the American dream, let’s not forget that Patrick famously retreated from politics into the so-called “vulture capitalism” of Bain Capital. Bain operates in part by dismantling troubled firms and leveraging their most valuable assets, a normal capital function but one that Patrick’s fellow Democrats demonized when Mitt Romney ran for president. It’s a process that necessary closes jobs in the short run, although one can also argue that proper use of those valuable assets means more and better jobs in the long run.



Will Democrats forgive that? Early signs point to no:

Michael Graham points out a few other entries on Patrick’s private-sector resumé:

The Boss Emeritus explains the Pelletier case here, a case that mattered far more to conservatives than the voters who will choose the next Democratic presidential nominee, unfortunately. The rest of the items here look like a central-casting list for a standard Eeeeevil Republican Fat Cat in any Hollywood flick. And Michael leaves out Texaco, Coca-Cola, and subprime lender ACC Capital Holdings, too.

All of that could be forgiven, perhaps, if Patrick had a clear agenda that filled a critical gap for voters in the electorate as it stands. Instead, here’s an establishmentarian who worked for exploiters of the poor and of the environment (from the primary electorate’s perspective, anyway) who wants to talk about character while saying nothing about policy at all.

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Poor Joe. Caught Obama cheating on him. Unless he asked him to support Deval.

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Justina Pelletier.
ObamaCare nightmare.
Boston Children’s Hospital needed a guinea pig and the Massachusetts DCF Department of Children and Families provided Justina.
I searched (on Duck, Duck, Go) this poor child.
Her parents had her being properly treated for her mitochonrial disease to the point where she could live a pretty normal life. There was a photo of her figure skating.
Then, Deval Patrick kidnapped her for the Boston Hospital so they could pump her full of psycho-active drugs instead of what was working for her.
She ended up in a wheelchair before her family got custody of her a year later.
It’s one thing for a dying patient to CHOOSE a new, experimental drug for themselves under Pres Trump’s “Right To Try,” rule, but quite another to remove children from their parents so the gov’t/medical complex that was ObamaCare could experiment on the child.
And I thought ObamaCare’s death panels were its worst aspect.

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