2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[Roy Karrde]

the FEC does not need to see it that way: they do not have the ability to assess or enforce the truth of material facts in a given filing - only with regard to campaign finance violations

as stated, the issue is one of perjury, which would be enforceable through the DOJ (but certainly will not, and should not, be performed during an election)

you are arguing that "Romney had no actual involvement with Bain except for legal duties" does not contradict having "not been involved in the operations of any Bain Capital entity in any way": such concealment of his legal duties is an obvious mistruth

Unless Romney is going to argue that by mentioning Operations he was referring to the Day to Day Operations or to the Decision Making Operations, seeing how Operations is such a open term, and seeing how the statement was obviously crafted by campaign lawyers, either one is a open out for him.

even though no indictment will occur, and thus no trial will demonstrate these consequences in fact, this situation plays into the narrative that: if romney is unwilling to disclose simple legal necessities, what else is he hiding?

No see what it plays into is desperation, the public doesn't care if signing a legal document counts as being part of the operation or not. By not being able to tie him to the outsourcing in 2001 and instead having to resort to calling him a felon. It makes the DNC and the Obama Campaign look desperate, that they have to dig into radical name calling. That is a level you do not want to reach in a political campaign especially when you are not running on ideas this time around.

Mind you Obama can go after Romney in ask what he is hiding, but by suggesting he is a felon, it completely and utterly destroys any credibility of the argument and causes the public to focus on that one radical statement. Furthermore it causes sympathy for Romney and makes Obama's campaign look out of control and radical.