MItt Romney invested in firm that disposed of aborted fetuses. Pro-life heads to explode in 3..2..1.

Courtesy of Mother Jones:

Earlier this year, Mitt Romney nearly landed in a politically perilous controversy when the Huffington Post reported that in 1999 the GOP presidential candidate had been part of an investment group that invested $75 million in Stericycle, a medical-waste disposal firm that has been attacked by anti-abortion groups for disposing aborted fetuses collected from family planning clinics. Coming during the heat of the GOP primaries, as Romney tried to sell South Carolina Republicans on his pro-life bona fides, the revelation had the potential to damage the candidate's reputation among values voters already suspicious of his shifting position on abortion. 

But Bain Capital, the private equity firm Romney founded, tamped down the controversy. The company said Romney left the firm in February 1999 to run the troubled 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and likely had nothing to with the deal. The matter never became a campaign issue. But documents filed by Bain and Stericycle with the Securities and Exchange Commission—and obtained by Mother Jones—list Romney as an active participant in the investment. And this deal helped Stericycle, a company with a poor safety record, grow, while yielding tens of millions of dollars in profits for Romney and his partners. The documents—one of which was signed by Romney—also contradict the official account of Romney's exit from Bain.

Wow, making money off of aborted fetuses! I have to say that if THIS connection had been well known during the primary, I don't think that Romney would have had a snowball's chance in hell of winning his party's nomination.

I have always believed that, despite their endorsement of this candidate, the Evangelicals were always going to vote for Romney while holding their noses, but I am pretty sure that something like this is going to dramatically tamp down the enthusiasm factor, and inspire some of the true believers to give this election a pass.