There is a controversy brewing about a new Romney television ad in New Hampshire that uses Senator Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign words against him when he described John McCain’s campaign strategy as avoiding running on the crashing economy in progress at that time in 2008. The Romney’ ad does not clearly indicate that Obama’s words were describing McCain in 2008 and not the economic conditions today. This is an opening shot in the War of 2012. Get your bandages ready because it is going to be bloody.
Politico’s Mike Allen, in his morning Playbook (the MOST influential daily email newsletter to political insiders) reported it like this:
BRACKETING OBAMA IN N.H., ROMNEY POPS FIRST PAID AD, “Believe in America” (his campaign slogan and logo) — Alexander Burns: “The commercial … opens with footage of an October 2008 Obama rally in the Granite State … ‘I am confident that we can steer ourselves out of this crisis,’ Obama says in the Romney spot, as text appears on screen reading: ‘He failed.’ Then, the Romney ad clips a section from the same Obama speech, in which the president mocked John McCain’s campaign for saying: ‘If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.’ Except in the Romney ad, there’s no mention of McCain. There’s just a snippet of the president saying: ‘If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.’” YouTube: http ://youtu.be/H3a 7FC0 Jkv8
–Romney news release discloses full Obama quote: “”Senator McCain’s campaign actually said, and I quote, if we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.”
–Obama campaign response: “Romney’s First Spot is a Deceitful and Dishonest Attack” … DNC: “Fact Check – Mitt Romney’s Attack Ad.”
–Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom, in an e-mail to POLITICO’s Dylan Byers: “We used that quote intentionally to show that President Obama is doing exactly what he criticized McCain of doing four years ago. Obama doesn’t want to talk about the economy because of his failed record.”
–Buy is $140,000, beginning today, running only on WMUR, the ABC station in Manchester, and N.H.’s only network affiliate.
–Romney’s voiceover: “I’m gonna do something to government. I call it the smaller, simpler, smarter approach to government. Getting rid of programs, turning programs back to states and, finally, making government itself more efficient. I’m gonna get rid of Obamacare. It’s killing jobs and it’s keeping our kids from having the bright prospects they deserve. We have a MORAL responsibility not to spend more than we take in. I’ll make sure that America is a job-creating machine, like it has been in the past. It’s high time to bring those principles of fiscal responsibility to Washington D.C. I’m Mitt Romney, and I approve this message.”
“I’m Mitt Romney, and I approve this message.”
Yeah? Well I am not Mitt Romney and I dont believe a word he says.
Still, he is head and shoulders above Obama.
huh?
Are you suggesting that it is even possible to be unfair to a person who has based his entire life on lies?
Sorry, it simply isn’t POSSIBLE to be unfair to Obama, who is the biggest con artist in American history.
The only legitimate question to ask about any strategy or tactic is whether it will be effective. The chances a tactic being less fair than what will be heaped on Republicans is zero.
Obama has to be defeated, at any cost, because the cost of the alternative will be infinitely greater.
We’re supposed to worry about what’s “unfair” to Obama who believes it’s “fair” that we buy insurance for nothing more than living and breathing while paying for the folks his administration defines as “poor”?
Forgive me if I’m not sympathetic Comrade O!
“This is unfair to Obama” is the new way to say Racist. Something they say when they can’t argue the facts.
Hey, I think I went to elementary school with these DNC whiners. Aren’t they the same ones who traveled in packs, beat up anybody they outnumbered, then cried and whined “unfair” to the nearest teacher if the selected poundee happened to land a solid punch?
Crybabies then. Crybabies now.
Well, you can’t really blame Newt. He’s warned us that when his patriotism moves to the front burner, he’s likely to do nasty things.
Obama has said plenty of dumb things and it unwise to quote him out of context when there is so much material that is “in context”. Showing Obama quoting someone else (McCain) is simply dishonest, as it implies that Obama is saying it about himself. If they had included the mockery of McCain’s campaign part of the statement by Obama, it would be just as damaging to Obama and a more honest quotation.
This ad isn’t unfair at all. It simply mocks the mocker.
The Left has some nerve being outraged after years of ‘Mission Accomplished’. Now THAT was totally unfair.
Who cares? After all, the entire MSM is anti-GOP. At this point, any “news” report will be carefully tilted to paint Mr. Obama in a positive light…and every GOP candidate in a negative light. Just look at what they’ve done to Bachman this year…and Palin in 2008.
Rich Vail
Pikesville, Maryland
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