Obama Straps Romney To Top of His Campaign Bus for Long Reelection Ride

[babylonsister]

Obama Straps Romney To Top of His Campaign Bus for Long Reelection Ride

By: Sarah Jones
July 5th, 2012


I’m so glad that Romney thought Seamus enjoyed his 12 hour ride strapped to the top of the family car, because from where I’m sitting, Romney is allowing himself to be metaphorically strapped to the top of Obama’s campaign bus for a very long trip. Perhaps some empathy will result.

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You can see how the Obama camp led Romney down the jobs path, calling out his time at Bain as a job-killer in early attack ads. Romney denied the charges and even some Democrats got upset, defending private equity managers instead of looking at the real issue.

But the real issue is at the forefront now, because Romney wasn’t honest about his time at Bain. Either he misled the public or he filed inaccurate SEC filings. It turns out that Romney was around during the some of the job killing and job-outsourcing. So now, not only is Romney a job-killer, but he is also branded with his choice to mislead the American public about his time at Bain. It’s another Murky Mittens Moment.

Back when the Obama camp started the ads, Obama put Romney in the position to either defend his job killing or deny it. Romney chose to deny it. Now it’s a going to get more attention precisely because Romney denied it.

Rupert Murdoch can see what the Romney camp refuses to see, and that is that Romney is not managing his campaign strategy well. Murdoch tweeted “Met Romney last week. Tough O Chicago pros will be hard to beat unless he drops old friends from team and hires some real pros. Doubtful.” He followed this up the next day with, “Romney people upset at me! Of course I want him to win, save us from socialism, etc. but should listen to good advice and get stuck in!”

That panicked sound is the right realizing that Romney is not the man to carry their mantle of obstruction and negative politics all the way to the White House in 2012. Yes, Romney can do negative — it’s all he’s doing, in fact. But Romney is a waffler whose relentless refusal to be upfront allows the Obama campaign to define him.



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http://www.politicususa.com/mitt-romneys-muddled-campaign-owned-obama.html

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1. "Romney is a waffler whose relentless refusal to be upfront allows the Obama campaign to define him"

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2. Great Title!!

I'd love to read the rest if there's more. Your link is not active.

[babylonsister]

3. I just added the link-try this?

http://www.politicususa.com/mitt-romneys-muddled-campaign-owned-obama.html

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8. Thank you.

Perfect!

[patrice]

4. If he were upfront he'd have to admit that Bain might have SUBVERTED its own clients, because of

things that he himself said to Bain employees.

Plausible Deniability IS A HIGHLY MARKETABLE COMMODITY, especially when you have inside information about what to deny.

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5. This got me wondering, is there any way to link Romney's secretiveness about his taxes/finances

to the general secretiveness about donor money? Would this be a theme that would resonate?

Interesting article.

[Rosanna Lopez]

6. Obama campaign has gone easy on Romney

The majority of Americans don't even know that Romney was a pro-Vietnam draft dodger who hid out in France for 3 years and never served in the VW, despite advocating for others to do so.

[patrice]

7. Thank! you for reminding me. I need to try to tell that story. I haven't done that yet.

[Rosanna Lopez]

10. Telling the story

Are you going to be telling the story on a Romney is a Liar website, you mean?

I've seen several of them out there that document his history of lies going back to his days in MA.

[patrice]

12. Mostly in conversation with others and also in Face Book.

[Happydayz]

11. The Obama campaign hasn't been going easy on Romney

Obama, knows the public is fickle and isn't really paying attention now in July. But wait until mid August after the convention, things are going to heat up and Mittens won't even see it coming. President Obama, can't waste any money on negative ads right now, that will be forgotten by the end of the week. I think he's playing it smart because he will be out spent horribly.

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