Gail Collins, "Mitt’s Political Vortex": Is Tom Cruise Gay?

The Obama campaign, with nothing positive to say about their own candidate, is again questioning when Romney left Bain Capital. However, WAPO's Glenn Kessler, in a thorough and detailed "Fact Checker" article entitled "Do Bain SEC documents suggest Mitt Romney is a criminal?" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/do-bain-sec-documents-suggest-mitt-romney-is-a-criminal/2012/07/12/gJQAlyPpgW_blog.html#pagebreak), derails these allegations:

"As we wrote yesterday, we are standing with our assessment that Mitt Romney left the helm of Bain Capital in 1999, when he departed to run the Salt Lake City Olympics. The date is important because some questionable investments by Bain took place between 1999 and 2002, when he ran for governor. But a Boston Globe article on Thursday raised new questions about that timeline, citing SEC filings, and the Obama campaign jumped to take advantage of it.

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Fortune magazine on Thursday reported that it had obtained the offering documents for Bain Capital funds circulating in 2000 and 2001. None of the documents show that Romney was listed as being among the 'key investment professionals' who would manage the money. As Fortune put it, 'the contemporaneous Bain documents show that Romney was indeed telling the truth about no longer having operational input at Bain — which, one should note, is different from no longer having legal or financial ties to the firm.'

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The Obama campaign is blowing smoke here."

Although "tempted" to award the Obama campaign's contentions four pinochios, Kessler and his team decided to give the Democrats "only" three.

However, this did not prevent Gail Collins in her latest New York Times op-ed entitled "Mitt’s Political Vortex" (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/opinion/collins-mitts-political-vortex.html) from also questioning Romney's departure date from Bain. A daffy Collins concludes:

"The Republicans currently have a symbolic legislative agenda and a presidential candidate who can be in two places at one time, but who nobody likes.

Other than that, it’s all good. Nobody’s brought up the dog on the car roof for days."

Yes, Collins is irrelevant. Worse still, she would disgracefully perpetuate this canard.

However, as long as we are on the topic of irrelevant, Tom Cruise's breakup with Katie Holmes has reawakened baseless speculation concerning Cruise's sexual orientation (see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/05/tom-cruise-gay-manhunt-invitation-_n_1651645.html). Is Tom Cruise gay? Who cares? Which is exactly how I feel about Gail Collins's groundless drivel on the op-ed page of The New York Times.