Hold the cheering on Romney withdrawing advertising

[cali]

Super Pacs supporting him will be doing the dirty work and those PACs have roughly 10x more money than their Dem counterparts.

Romney campaign to 'carpet bomb' airwaves after Obama nomination speech

By James Rosen

Published September 06, 2012

FoxNews.com

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Senior Romney-Ryan campaign officials tell Fox News the campaign will launch an enormous media offensive on Friday, the day after President Obama accepts the Democratic Party's nomination for a second term. The push will include ad buys in several states that will cost tens of millions of dollars.

Aides said more than a dozen new ads, each tailored to different regions and segments of the electorate, will begin airing Friday, aimed at dramatically shifting the dynamics of a contest that Romney-Ryan aides acknowledge, in terms of the hard realities of the electoral map, have until now favored the Obama-Biden ticket.

"Time is short," said one campaign aide. "We have $100 million we've just raised. If you look at our burn rate to date and our cash on hand, there's not much more we can spend on infrastructure. So we've got to start spending our general election funds in a big way, because you know what the value of that money is on the day after the election? Zero."

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Former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, an adviser to the Romney campaign, said this week that its strategy going forward will be to "carpet bomb" the president and vice president.

Romney-Ryan officials did not repudiate such talk; indeed, one official, in speaking to Fox News, likened the offensive that will begin Thursday to the "daisy cutter" bombs used in the Iraq war.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/06/romney-campaign-to-carpet-bomb-airwaves-after-obama-nomination-speech/#ixzz25ioSxrd4

And yes, this is from Fux but that's who the rMoney folks talk to.

[BeyondGeography]

1. Complete with Iraq war metaphors

Gotta love these guys and their fatal attraction to FAIL.

[cthulu2016]

2. They are doing a big buy in 8 states, while dropping 3 states

The "independent" PACs have dropped the same three states, so it is good news for PA, MI and WI.

[catbyte]

5. I think they're saving their money for the down ballot races to try to hold the House

[Auggie]

3. Bet this will be the dirtiest advertising too

[tblue]

4. "Carpet bomb" brings to mind "Drone attacks"

It's remote control demolition. Same thing. Romney drones are dropping bombs on the POTUS's campaign. And it will all. be. lies.

[pinboy3niner]

22. More like the B-52 strikes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Vietnam

Unlike B-52 bombers, drones do precision strikes. Very different from carpet bombing, which involves saturating an entire area with hundreds or thousands of bombs.

[littlewolf]

24. yeah .. ARC LIGHT .... and Linebacker ....

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waves of B52's dropping tons of ordnance
nothing standing afterward .... that is carpet bombing

edit: IMHO it will not change anyones mind ...
it will reenforce the all ready committed
Mitt voter .. let em spend their money

[jberryhill]

6. Grammar error here - "an enormous media offensive"

They meant "enormous offensive media".

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Actually, "offensive enormous media", elephantine in its enormity. nt

[jberryhill]

15. ooohhh.... that's better.

[MineralMan]

7. Annoying voters, one state at a time, eh, Willard?

Thanks for skipping some, though. But maybe you can annoy enough voters in the other eight to swing at least a couple of those states.

[Blue Idaho]

8. What are the chances that

the big money millionaire backers are seeing the epic failure of the RomneyRyan campaign and cutting their PAC losses? Its one thing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to win an election, but its a another thing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to lose an election.

Just a Thought...

[CTyankee]

18. this might have more to do with those federal judges ruling voter suppression laws in 4 states

were unconstitutional and were stopped dead in their tracks. Perhaps the strategy depended on those laws being there. Maybe the repubs underestimated how many states would be affected, maybe thinking only 1 or maybe 2 states' laws would be overturned. I'm hoping that is the case...

[Blue Idaho]

23. Interesting! Thank You. nt.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. There's some underhanded ILLEGAL cooperation between RMoney campaign and Money PACs. nt

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. Wonder what kind of "slimeball" ads they plan on running?

I guess we'll see on Friday, right?

[cynatnite]

11. Racially tinged lies are what we will see. n/t

[KamaAina]

13. Remember, the Super PACs aren't supposed to coordinate with the campaign

Stephen Colbert and his lawyer need to show them how to NOT-COORDINATE.

[RockaFowler]

14. They also have to pay more money for the ads

The Super PACs have to pay the highest rate on the station to get their spots on the air. The candidates can get what's called the Lowest Unit Rate for their spots, but not the Super PACs or any non-candidate ad. I feel pretty good about this. Those stations (mine included) will be making and taking more money from these guys. Wasted money in my opnion!

[NightWatcher]

16. the Superpac ads are horribly negative, without a positive R$ ad it just looks bad

People will burn out on negative ads from groups with generic names that feature claims that maybe dont seem 100% legit. I've seen some weak ones down here in FL.

This wont turn out the Independent voter, this will confuse them a little or just make them mad that ads are we see.

[skeewee08]

17. Dang!!!!

[Cali_Democrat]

19. They're wasting their money

[mick063]

21. Big whoop for them

We always knew they would pour money down the sink hole.

I love the idea of them spending 100 million on a losing proposition.

I hope it really stings, causes much finger pointing, and speeds the demise of a very strange coalition.

[ret5hd]

20. YCIDN.

[Arkana]

25. SuperPACs pulled out of PA and MI.

At least the big ones did.

[C_U_L8R]

26. Let him spend all his money on advertising

Then everyone in the country will know his lies.