Fortune.Com Fact-Checks Gingrich Film's Anti-Bain Assertions

Fortune.Com Fact-Checks Gingrich Film's Anti-Bain Assertions

Charles C. Johnson recently discussed the facts behind the union boss who led to workers at the Ampad plant in Marion, Indiana losing their jobs. He blamed Randy Johnson, the DNC/MSNBC poster boy, for the layoffs, not Bain Capital and certainly not Mitt Romney, who was on leave from Bain when the strike began.

Making money is not evil. Investing capital is not evil. Profit drives the free-market. Anyone who alludes to or implies the opposite, or otherwise denigrates free trade and market forces, is not a conservative. They may claim to be a Republican, but they are not conservative.