A profile in dishonesty.
David Corn sets up his explosive scoop about Mitt Romney’s role in Bain Capital’s investment in Stericycle, a medical-waste firm that disposed of aborted fetuses, among other things:
Earlier this year, Mitt Romney nearly landed in a politically perilous controversy when the Huffington Post reported that in 1999 the GOP presidential candidate had been part of an investment group that invested $75 million in Stericycle, a medical-waste disposal firm that has been attacked by anti-abortion groups for disposing aborted fetuses collected from family planning clinics.
As Corn points out, this happened just as voting was getting underway in the Republican primary, when Mitt Romney was at his most vulnerable with both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum posing serious threats to his candidacy. Romney simply couldn’t afford a controversy that would put him at odds with the GOP’s evangelical base, so instead of defending the investment in Stericycle, he denied having anything to do with it. You know what’s coming next, right? Yep: