Was Bain Capital, the company founded by presidential candidate Mitt Romney, built with help from covert Iran-contra operatives?

New information uncovered by New Times raises the possibility.

The story starts in 1984, when Romney solicited start-up money for Bain at a meeting in Miami with a small group of Latin American oligarchs. They eventually provided nearly 40 percent of the outside seed-money that began Bain, the firm on which Romney has built most of his fortune and much of his case for the presidency.

Several media outlets, including the Huffington Post, have reported that some of these investors were members of families with ties to Salvadoran death squads. Romney has said Bain vetted the investors and their families for such ties.

Romney forged a particularly close relationship with Ricardo Poma, a right-wing billionaire from El Salvador, who became a partner at Bain and the leader of the Latin American investors.

The Sun-Sentinel has come out and decided to endorse the candidate who thinks Syria is Iran's route to the sea.

That's right. The paper that is owned by JP Morgan Chase and some hedge funds, thinks that child molesters are a riot and is run by a dude who declared bankruptcy has officially endorsed Mitt Romney for President.

The Sentinel has traditionally gone Democratic in the past -- and endorsed Obama in 2008.

But this time around, it's telling its mostly liberal readers in Broward County to go with the Mittbot.

While the Miami Herald [update: Herald went with Obama] and Palm Beach Post have yet to come out with an endorsement, the Sun-Sentinel is sending shockwaves across the internet because ZOMG a liberal-leaning paper that previously endorsed Obama is now going with Mitt let's not even bother having an election now!!!!11!

With the election a mere days away, Willard Mittington knows that winning Florida is going to be crucial, especially with the numbers settling down across the country and Ohio maybe possibly being a must-win state for the Mittbot, where he is down by as much as five in some polls.

So Romney is pulling out a secret, if a tad old and musty, weapon: a dude who didn't win the usually Republican-heavy state of Florida back in 2008. OH, IT'S ON NOW.

Awww yeahhh. John McCain is in the house. And he's got a sexy message for us Fort Lauderdalians.

"We need Mitt Romney as the next president of the United States," McCain told a Fort Lauderdale crowd Thursday. "We need him very badly."

(via WPLG Channel 10 News)

On Friday morning, WPLG Channel 10 News ran a story of a blimp with the words "America Needs Romney" emblazoned next to a giant drawing of Mitt Romney's face on the side of the airship.

"Flying high in the polls," the lede in the story began, "Mitt Romney was also flying high over the streets of South Florida Friday morning."

Get it?

Then on Sunday, it was forced to make an emergency landing because the pilot screwed up and didn't have time to take it back to the airport.

OH, THE ROMNANITY!

Remember Marc Leder? The Boca resident, private equity executive, and Patrick Bateman-look-a-like who loves throwing sex parties and hosted the fundraiser for rich people where Mitt Romney famously took a piss on 47 percent of Americans?

Well, he's totally going to host another event for the Mittbot. And this time, ain't gonna be no secret recordings of Romney disparaging half of America and calling them freeloaders and victims in front of other rich people.

Leder has supposedly been telling donors that he felt bad about someone secretly taping Romney's sincere contempt for the poor, and wants to make it up to him with another get-together. With more rich people.

See also:
- Mitt Romney Video Leaks, Basically Calls Obama Supporters Freeloaders
- Mitt Romney's "47 Percent" Fundraiser Host Lives in Boca, Loves Sex Parties

Apparently, Barry Obama's debate performance was so craptacular, The Mittbot has gained some points with Latino voters in Florida.

According to a ImpreMedia & Latino Decisions tracking poll released Monday, Obama's lead among Hispanic voters in Florida has slipped from 72% last week to 67% this week.

Among those polled, 76% Latinos said debate performance was important in how they evaluated a candidate.

That'll learn ya to just stand there and take notes while your opponent lies at you with a loud voice, Barry!

Fresh off a debate victory that ended the race and buried Obama forever, Mittington RoboRomney hit up Florida for a three-city gloat-a-thon in which he gave a couple of stump speeches, shared some stories, took some photos, and uncomfortably got his face wiped over and over again by some random dude.

Huge crowds in St. Petersburg, Apopka, and Port St. Lucie met Romney as he looked to ride some of that debate goodness momentum through the swing state.

In front of about 10,000 supporters in Port St. Lucie, Romney got the crowd revved up. "We had a little debate earlier this week," he said. "And I enjoyed myself."

I slung some horse crap all over that stage, and it was fuuuuunnn!!

Wake up this morning and the consensus is that Mittington Willard Romnom RoboRomney Mittbot won the first presidential debate over Velvet Thunder Barack.

Most pundits on Twitter and your mother agree. Romney was feisty, aggressive, kind of a dick, and on the offense. 

Meanwhile, Obama was a big giant fart sound.

But if these things are measured in style (they are!), and if they decide elections (they don't!), then something is crazy with the Cheese Whiz.

Because while Romney was more animated and energized, he was also filled with horseshit of epic proportions. You would need several dozen dump trucks to come in and haul away all the horseshit Romney spewed out of his mouth last night. It's like he's part of the mutant X-Men, and his superpower is spewing horseshit out of his mouth.

"Hole-ah. Yo soy Mitt Romney. Yo key-eh-roh tu vote."

During his face-melting "47 percent" comments, Mittington Romnom RoboRomney Mittbot Doghater Romney also said that if he were Latino, he would so win the presidency.

Perhaps he wasn't kidding.

Romney appeared on Univision on Wednesday night to try to sway the Latino vote his way (which, according to the latest polls, ain't looking so caliente). 

And in probably one of the craziest-yet-knowing-this-guy-it's-completely-plausible conspiracy theories to come out in a while, some are saying Uncle Willard purposely went heavy on the makeup for his TV spot to appear more Latino.

Pero compleeley...

Congratulations, Florida. You probably maybe almost for sure destroyed Mitt Romney's hopes and dreams to become president of Don'tTreadOnMeLand.

As we pointed about yesterday, RoboRomney set his pants on fire with his "47 percent" comments at a fundraiser right here in Boca. And since then, things have been blowing up all around him.

He's tried explaining it, spinning it, wrenching it, straining it, pulling it, tweaking it, and burying it... all to no avail. So he came out and owned it and then tried to justify it.

Then, his trusty Ward, P90Ryan, came out and said Romney was inarticulate. Because there must be a more coherent way to shit on poor people and most Americans!

And now, things are hitting a critical stage.