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Obama for America… provides Team Romney with its latest ad.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 21st, 2012 at 03:00 PM  | 

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For free.  Here’s Mitt Romney‘s latest strike-while-the-iron-is-hot attack ad “Big Bain Backfire:”

Nice to see that they’re keeping up with events, huh?

 

Anyway, as a good general rule: if you have a politician from your own side rushing to push back on your new angle of attack, then you may have a problem. If you then have to make that politician explain and retract his earlier statements – in what pretty much everyone else is calling a “hostage video” – then you probably do have a problem. And if you then get another politician from your own side rushing to condemn said hostage video, then you have several problems. And one of those problems is that you have just demonstrated that you have no control over your own Presidential campaign.

You know, when Republicans said that the attack ads against Obama would more or less write themselves… well, we meant it. We just didn’t really think that the Democrats would be so kind as to actually cut the video rebuttals for us, too.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Transcript:

VOICEOVER: “Have You Had Enough Of President Obama’s Attacks On Free Enterprise?”

VIDEO TEXT: “Have You Had Enough Of President Obama’s Attacks On Free Enterprise?”

VOICEOVER: “His Own Key Supporters Have”

VIDEO TEXT: “His Own Key Supporters Have”

VOICEOVER: “Democrat Mayor Cory Booker Of New Jersey”

VIDEO TEXT: “Democrat Mayor Cory Booker:”

CORY BOOKER: “I have to just say from a very personal level, I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity.”

· CORY BOOKER: “As far as that stuff, I have to just say from a very personal level, I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity.” (NBC’s “Meet The Press, 5/20/12)

VOICEOVER: “Former Congressman Harold Ford Jr., Democrat from Tennessee.”

VIDEO TEXT: “Former Congressman Harold Ford Jr:”

HAROLD FORD JR.: “Private equity is not a bad thing. Matter of fact, private equity is a good thing in many, many instances.”

· HAROLD FORD JR.: “I agree with him. Private equity is not a bad thing. Matter of fact, private equity is a good thing in many, many instances.” (MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” 5/21/12)

VOICEOVER: “Former Obama Economic Adviser and Auto Czar, Steven Rattner, a leading Democrat.”

VIDEO TEXT: “Former Obama Economic Adviser and Auto Czar, Steven Rattner:”

STEVEN RATTNER: “And I don’t think there’s anything Bain Capital did that they need to be embarrassed about.”

· STEVEN RATTNER: “And I don’t think there’s anything Bain Capital did that they need to be embarrassed about.” (MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” 5/14/12)

BOOKER: “If you look at the totality of Bain Capital’s record, they’ve done a lot to support businesses, to grow businesses.”

· BOOKER: “If you look at the totality of Bain Capital’s record, they’ve done a lot to support businesses, to grow businesses.” (NBC’s “Meet The Press, 5/20/12)

VOICEOVER: “Even Obama’s own supporters have had enough.”

VIDEO TEXT: “Even Obama’s Own Supporters Have Had Enough.”

BOOKER: “It’s nauseating to the American public. Enough is enough.”

· BOOKER: “It’s nauseating to the American public. Enough is enough.” (NBC’s “Meet The Press, 5/20/12)

VIDEO TEXT: “Enough is Enough!”

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  • checkmate2012

    released by the campaign just a short while ago reduced the 3-min Booker statement to 30 seconds or so and made it seem Booker supporting the attack on Bain. They tweeked the tweet!

  • lifeisadream

    So much for being ‘electable.’ Sadly down ticket will suffer as well.

    If only we’d run a wild eyed conservative, at least down ticket would have been productive.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    nt

  • acat

    Just curious. Cat, y’know, it goes with the fur.

    Mew

  • Repair_Man_Jack

    It requires a certain effort to Meg Mitt. BHO Jimmughs himself on a quasi-daily basis.

  • acat

    are rooting for the Meg’ing and ignoring the Jimmughing.

    Mew

  • lineholder

    I wish I knew of a way to get that video to post (Hint,hint)

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/21/chris_matthews_cory_booker_helped_sabotage_obama_campaign.html

  • lifeisadream

    From
    http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2012/01/axelrod_to_cnns_candy_crowley.html

    AXELROD: — The truth is that he closed 1,000 or more factories, stores and offices. He outsourced tens of thousands of jobs. He took 12 — just a second — he took 12 companies to bankruptcy, on which he and his partners made hundreds of millions of dollars.

  • Bill S

    .

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    …if he’s stupid enough to think that this line of attack will last the week… Oh, wait, you’re still pretending to be one of us.

    Ta.

  • garfieldjl

    I was expecting attacks of this nature directed towards Romney, as to how effective they will be in the general, I’m really not sure at this point because of the White House’s Amateur hour. This will either be extremely devastating or fall flat on its face. If Romney can bring up Solyndra (if I remember correctly someone here pointed out that the similar scandal that we see during Romney’s governorship was something from the prior governor), then he can turn this into an argument about Obama’s corruption.

    While it was hard for Romney’s primary opponents to attack him from the Right on this issue, Obama is a hardcore leftist.

    Another good counter would be bringing up how Obama used his position in the Senate to protect Fannie/Freddie and essentially allowed this mess we’re in to happen.

    As far as jobs going overseas, Romney has a good counter by blaming idiotic Government Regulations that fly in the face of common sense.

  • gekster

    You said; “I was expecting attacks of this nature directed towards Romney,”

    Homer, you were ‘making’ these atacks against Romney just after Santorum dropped out.
    It is funny that you think that we would forget all the Dem/leftist talking points you yourself made.

    What a maroon.

  • garfieldjl

    Hate to break it to you, but the idea that the Democrats didn’t already know about the Bain Capital stuff and they just happened to discover it because of someone like me posting about it on Red State, is rather laughable.

    Instead of attacking me for pointing out what areas the Democrats are likely to attack Romney on, a better use of your time would be to try to find a way to counter an attack on Romney’s record.

    To be blunt this kind of attack on Romney was obvious all the way back in 2007, the only thing that has saved Romney’s hide right now is that the Obama Campaign is in a state of panic and having amateur hour.

    We have two options: we can hope the Obama Campaign will continue to behave like a bunch of drunken Chimpanzees from now till November, or people like you can come up with an effective counter to this piece of Romney’s baggage before the Obama’s clowns can get their acts together.

  • gekster

    I’m going with what you ‘actually’ posted, which is pretty much the Dem/leftist talking points.

    I’m going with ALL THE SLAMING OF ROMNEY YOU POSTED.

    It was pointed out time and again by me and many others here that your postings were as such.

    And like the lefty I think you are, try to blame me for pointing out what YOU actually posted.

    You are a moby. and I must admit, you are better than most as you have managed to keep under the radar for this long.

    And I repeat, you are a maroon.

  • Ausonius

    Peaking too early is always a danger, especially with The Forces of Evil aligned to do their best and their worst.

    All kinds of ways for Romney to throw this away: stop focusing on the economy, don’t counter the lies and “take the high road,” accept idiotic conditions for “debates,” etc.

    So far, things are looking good.

  • garfieldjl

    I’ve been banned from some gaming forums that had political discussion sections because I wouldn’t worship at the altar of Obama and kept bringing up ACORN, Ayers, and Wright.

    I’m not going to pretend Romney’s flaws don’t exist, his record is his record. We shouldn’t be allergic to telling the truth like Democrats often are.

    Now, maybe you are going to pretend Romney’s flaws don’t exist, but I prefer to live in a world of facts, not a state of denial like a leftist kook. For the record I think Obama is worse than Romney by a significant margin, particularly due to some of Obama’s more recent stunts. That is not going to change the fact that I have an extremely low opinion of Romney.

    Now, I offered areas that one can come up with effective counters for these attacks that Obama is using against Romney. If I was an Obama supporter, I wouldn’t have even bothered posting the fact that Romney is vulnerable on these issues, let alone some possibilities to counter Obama’s strategy.

    You know I get the feeling if Mark Levin or Rush Limbaugh were posters here, you’d accuse them of being DNC plants too.

  • jaykali

    There is no question Bain is a political winner for Romney. For those idiots like Cramer and a couple others that have said that Romney shouldn’t lean on this experience – they have no idea what they’re talking about.

    During the primaries Romney really anchored his campaign on his Bain experience and the other candidates were not able to pull him away for that. One way would have been to keep harping on the fact that his Bain experience didn’t really lead to exemplary governing when he became governor of Massachusetts.

    It’s interesting to me that many Democratic allies have already at least partially or fully conceded the Bain experience. If Bain remains the centerpiece of Romney’s campaign I think he wins for sure.

  • gekster

    Do a simple search in the searchbox for ‘garfields_romney” and see all the crap YOU posted against Romney.
    And if you have any ‘counters’ for the attacks on Romney, they would be counters against yourself, as you have made more inflamatory attacks on Romney than any Dem could ever have.
    Now I expect you to ignore the truth I have said; and turn it on me, because lefties can;t handle the truth, and must attack the person telling the truth.

    maroon.

  • checkmate2012

    No humor anymore :(

  • The_Rebel

    the opposite happens. The guy is almost never right. Whenever he recommends a stock, you will make money shorting it. I wouldn’t want him recommending Romney.

  • gekster

    I can be smart and still not grow up.
    Just who said I had to.
    Who said a child will lead them.
    Wasn’t that the most qouted man in the world.

  • checkmate2012

    Enlighten me or are u speaking of the Toys R Us founder? Just to add, I think society has it backwards…meaning spend your first 40 years playing and then work, cause ya can’t play when you get old :)

    Lastly, how come everyone gives out 5′s instead of 10′s? Sort of a newby as in months not years, so don’t undertand the 5 thing.

  • http://libertynews.com/ mbecker908

    said you had that would drive a stake through Romney’s heart?

    You really are an ignorant, pathetic jackass.

  • gekster

    It was Jesus, I think.

  • sulmak

    For every “Dem/Leftist talking point” he just posted he also posted a counterpoint showing that Obama is worse.

    I don’t know too many lefties who would do that.

  • gekster

    One of the most quoted.

    A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse;
    from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.
    The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him …

    The wolf will live with the lamb,
    the leopard will lie down with the goat,
    the calf and the lion and the yearling together;
    and a child will lead them. (Isaiah 11:1-6 NIV).
    (talking about Jesus preaching)

    For a second I thought I knew what I was talking about.

  • checkmate2012

    not as proficient as you and others here on the Word…my bad. But I’m learning…ignorant me.

  • gekster

    If you don’t know the history, but out.

    And if you don’t know all of what I posted on Romney, shut up and bit out even more.
    Don;t jump in until you get a clue.

  • sulmak

    Rather than a post that was mainly defending Romney.

  • gekster

    I responded to every one of his comments when he came on the scene her at RS ‘after’ Santorum dropped out.
    Quite a few showed up then, and ‘all’ bashing Romney.
    If you had been around during the actual primaries when we had five or six candidates, you would know I was the hardest on Romney, and provided facts to back up what I said.
    garfild has been throwing crap against the wall for awhile, and I’ve been calling him on it all along.
    Now that Romney is the aparent nominee, he wan’ts to make all nicy nice.
    I’m calling him on that also.

    Till you catch up and know what you are talking about, which YOU don’t, just shut up and quit waisting bandwidth.

  • garfieldjl

    The difference between a Newt Gingrich Supporter and a Romney Supporter.

    I can acknowledge the faults of the candidate I supported and still would much rather have going up against Obama, I supported Gingrich anyways. I am secure enough in my belief that Newt was the right man for the job that I am perfectly okay with people bringing up Newt’s faults.

    If anyone brings up Romney’s faults you, mbecker, etc. start personally attacking people, claiming they are Obama supporters. That demonstrates to me you guys are completely insecure in your beliefs that Romney is the right man for the job, so you blow up at anyone that challenges that idea that Romney is Mr. Perfect.

    You want to start insulting people for pointing out you’re behaving like a juvenile, here’s a news flash, if you stopped acting like a snobby brat people wouldn’t have to point out the way you are acting.

    I’ve actually flat said that Romney = Obama back when the primary was still in full swing, and at the time that was my honest opinion. Since that time Romney has not improved one bit in my eyes, Obama has just managed to sink even lower in my eyes.

    While I may vote Republican in November, Romney doesn’t have my support, because he hasn’t earned my trust.

    Since you’re a neurotypical gekster, you need to learn that when someone on the Autistic Spectrum like me voice an opinion about something, chances are it is our honest opinion of the situation, and usually we don’t even take into account whether or not it is something people want to hear or often we say it anyways because we aren’t big on deceptions.

    Your false accusations me of being an Obama plant just shows what a complete and total idiot you are. I criticize Romney based on Romney’s record, I don’t care what party he is in, it is his record. I criticize Obama based on Obama’s record, I don’t care what party he is in either.

    I’m not going to act like a snake oil salesman, I value my integrity too much, I know that supposedly is old fashioned, but you know what I think that is one fashion that needs to come back in style.

    Now since I’m kinda disgusted with the match-up at the Presidential level, I guess I need to hope that Richard Mourdock and others will win their races in November.

  • gekster

    You don’t adress the oponion, but try to make yourself look good, at which you fail.
    To ask the question for the umpteenth time, how do YOU walk back all the anti Romney crap you posted.
    You’ve gone from maroon to totaly stupid idiot.