George W. Bush will give a keynote speech on investing in the Cayman Islands right before the election
Former president George W. Bush isn’t exactly doing Mitt Romney any favors on the messaging front. As the current face of the Republican party, Mitt’s single biggest challenge has been distancing himself from his image as a business tycoon who got rich by outsourcing American jobs and then keeping big chunks of his fortune in Swiss bank accounts and invested in the Cayman Islands.
On election week, George W. will rub the sketchy Cayman Islands playboy image right in Mitt’s face.
BuzzFeed points out that W. will give the keynote address to the Cayman Islands Alternative Investment Summit, which goes down on Grand Cayman Island November 1-2, less than a week before the presidential election. The other keynote speaker will be the UK’s most famous billionaire playboy, Virgin’s Richard Branson, who owns his very own island not so far from Grand Cayman.
The Summit’s site says the event “will bring together the world’s leading institutional investors, fund managers, academics, economists and regulators in the Cayman Islands—the world’s leading domicile for investment funds—to discuss and debate the fundamentals of a vibrant future for the alternative investments industry.”
To most Americans, this is a pretty simple equation: “Cayman Islands” + “alternative investments” = “sketchy.”
George W’s Cayman keynote is just the latest in a long string of reminders about Romney’s ultra-rich status and possibly sketchy behavior— and he’s not getting a lot of help from the people around him.
Just last week former GOP candidate Tim Pawlenty left Rommey’s campaign in a high-profile departure to become a lobbyist for the banking industry, and promptly said that banks should just be allowed to regulate themselves. Last week Romney released his 2011 tax returns which showed him paying a 14% tax rate, and if the hackers who claim to have stolen his earlier records weren’t bluffing and haven’t been paid a ransom, they may release even more of Romney’s returns tomorrow.
Accidental or not, somehow the messaging around Mitt’s millions seem to be the most consistent the GOP is able to construct around Romney.
September 27, 2012 at 9:37 pm, Dianne Smith-Jenkins said:
Interesting!
September 27, 2012 at 10:23 pm, Paula Sachs said:
Unfreaking believable. The dumbest, most craven American president ever (he and his brother stole the 2000 election through FL, then he and his OH campaign chairman stole the 2004 election through OH, remember?), the guy who brought us 9/11 even though his administration had advance warning, the same dope who swore on the existence of WMD to take us into unnecessary, unpaid wars – that same brain surgeon will be visitng Mitt Romney's money at the Cayman Islands five days before the election! Who is coordinating the activities of the Repug party? Someone who secretly is a Democrat, I'm sure. So thanks, whomever, for the gift that keeps on giving.
September 27, 2012 at 10:40 pm, Steve Hendrickson said:
Necker Island is in the British Virgin Islands (Eastern Caribbean) and Grand Cayman is in the Western Caribbean… About as close as Florida and California.
September 27, 2012 at 6:47 pm, Dubya to add to Mitt's misery said:
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September 28, 2012 at 2:22 am, Michael Cruise said:
What a total turd.
September 28, 2012 at 4:03 am, Sylvia Augustus said:
This is truly great theater. This has got to be a joke. Right?
September 28, 2012 at 12:05 am, George W. Bush to give keynote speech on investing in the Cayman Islands said:
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September 28, 2012 at 12:39 pm, Olivia Dorsey said:
W is not doing Romney any favors.
September 28, 2012 at 8:52 pm, George W. Bush Must Really Hate Romney said:
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October 19, 2012 at 10:58 am, Jerome Diggins said:
THANK YOU,W.
November 02, 2012 at 9:49 am, Nope, you can’t know anything about George W’s speech on investing in the Cayman Islands | Death and Taxes said:
[...] about George W’s speech on investing in the Cayman Islands By Alex Moore 1 min agoAs we reported in September, George W. was scheduled to give the keynote address this week at the Cayman [...]
November 02, 2012 at 2:22 pm, Ryan Morris said:
Perfect