After nearly two weeks of heated debate over whether President Obama should attack Republican Mitt Romney’s tenure at a private-equity firm, Democratic leaders across the country say they are largely united behind the strategy, even as some concede an uncertain outcome and new polls show Obama has lost ground nationally.
The Democratic leaders, in numerous interviews over the last week, said they are hearing little or no resistance among the party faithful in their states to a strategy that Republicans have characterized as anti-capitalist. And Obama has no plans to back off; his campaign will roll out more stories in the coming weeks that advisers said will again show Bain Capital as a corporate menace that protects profits at the expense of people and jobs.
“He wanted to have this conversation,” Jim Burn, chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, said of Romney, the likely GOP nominee. “We’re going to have it. There should be no hesitation or equivocation.”
I’m sure the Snooze Hour and Sunday morning crews won’t be happy, but how many divisions do they have?
Baud
This is good news for John McCain.
JordanRules
He hasn’t lost ground nationally because of this conversation, obviously the horse-racing tea leaf readers may say differently.
MikeJ
Thanks God I missed nothing all afternoon. PLease go through every post today today and add a comment from me:
“Democrats in disarray!”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
The polls they link to don’t really support such a flat assertion, to say the least. And I’m glad they’re sticking to their guns. THat’s a difference between the Obama team and Gore Kerry.
Southern Beale
We’re in New York. I just saw a Disney musical about a union organizer who organized a strike against the wealthiest 1%er of his day, Joseph Pullitzer. The entire crowd was cheering. My friends in the theater business inform me that this show will win the Tony for best musical.
Something very strange is going on here.
David Koch
Black Jimmy Carter!
Baud
@Southern Beale:
What it is ain’t exactly clear.
Southern Beale
@Baud:
There’s a man with a gun over there, telling me I’ve got to beware…
AxelFoley
Something Wicked This Way Comes…
PsiFighter37
The line of attack is a no-brainer. As long as it’s articulated well (and Obama’s response at NATO indicated he is on the job), this is the easiest way to take down R-Money.
That, and it’ll make team R-Money so nervous they’ll shut themselves trying to figure how to respond.
David Koch
In the latest move, wingers are going on tee vee, offering to help the Obama campaign with “constructive advice”, recommending they ditch the bain attack, and just run on their accomplishments.
Hill Dweller
The MSM and the Dems who depend on Wall Street money tried to nip this campaign in the bud, but the Obama campaign told them to fuck themselves. I hope the President called Dianne Feinstein personally to tell her that he was doubling down on the Bain attacks.
kay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I agree. They’re just completely dishonest. “New polls support our narrative!”
Except they don’t.
I listened to a bobblehead show in the car today, and the whole discussion was about how Obama is mean to Romney.
Romney’s superpacs are running hundreds of negative ads about Obama in Ohio right now. No mention of that.
They live in a world of their own, they really do.
Nutella
Typical IOKIYAR: Romney uses Bain as a campaign talking point to impress the Republican voters and pundits but gets bent out of shape if Obama uses Bain as a campaign talking point to impress the Democratic and non-aligned voters.
As Ezra pointed out, both Romney and Obama want to talk about Bain because it fits in so well with their campaigns. Neither Romney nor Obama want to talk about Romney’s record in his only elected office because it doesn’t fit with their campaigns.
David Koch
@PsiFighter37:
if you read the transcript of Rmoney’s interview with Halperin, he was given multiple opportunities to defend his time at bain and he punted every single time.
it didn’t get the coverage it deserved, in part because Rmoney is a bore, but more so, because IOKIYAR.
I’m old enough to remember when Ted Kennedy ran for president in 1979 and he was asked why did he want to be president, and he gave a mediocre answer, and the media turned it into a scandal.
here, after running for six years, after bain had been a focus during the primaries, after Rick Perry called him a vulture capitalist, after Stephen Colbert compared him to Jack the Ripper, and after bain had been the focus of two weeks of brutal commercials, Rmoney was still unable to provide any answer.
yet the liburel media turned it’s head
Donut
Ha.
Fuck them. Fuck the whole nihilistic, craven lot of them, so very much. Every time I hear any of the Village whine about Obama I feel like his odds improve.
Villago Delenda Est
Yeah, “some polls show”, my ass.
The media asswipes will do ANYTHING to protect the horse race narrative. ANYTHING. They have no ethics, they have no scruples.
Baud
The reason this is a really nice strategy is that Romney really wants to talk about Obama. He absolutely doesn’t want people to talk about himself because to look at Romney is to dislike Romney, even for Republicans.
The “controversy” over Bain, however, forces the Village to focus on Romney, even as they are trying to criticize Obama.
4tehlulz
behind the grassy knoll.
Hill Dweller
@Nutella:
This is another bullshit narrative. In that NATO press conference, Obama ridiculed Romney for running from his record as governor. Axelrod and Cutter are constantly hammering Romney for his jobs record as governor. Robert Gibbs hammered Romney for his jobs record as governor this morning.
They are primarily trying to destroy the notion that private sector experience makes a person uniquely qualified to be President because the Romney campaign is built entirely on on that claim.
mai naem
I had CSPAN on this afternoon and they were replaying the Philly school visit. It was just playing in the background and I wasn’t really putting my whole attention to it and even at that I could just hear the phoniness in Romney’s voice, responding to the teachers’ concerns. The “mmm’s” you here from people who don’t really agree with you but don’t want to get into a full battle with you(lets not forget, his son gets to make money off charter schools.) I am willing to bet a hundred bucks this POS has never ever had to worry about a car payment or a car repair bill or skipping an insurance payment or had to eat something you didn’t want to eat because you absolutely could not afford something more expensive. This scumball has made money off ruining other people’s money. His rich beeyach wife wouldn’t be able to afford her druh-s-A-ge if it wasn’t for his blood money. And oh, yeah, this was after I read the Salon story about his sister in law having an illegal abortion. He’s a smarmy insincere scumball who needs to lose in a landslide and BTW I hope his homophobic church spends lots of money indirectly promoting this POS so that they have less money to spend on their homophobic campaigns.
Strontium 90
Obama has lost touch with the voters. I contributed in 2008 and now I get emails for from the campaign for dinners with George Clooney and Sarah Jessica Parker. What is up with that?
gbear
@Baud:
Well, actually he wants to lie about Obama. Pretty much everything he’s said about Obama is a lie. And on the rare occasions that he gets called out on it he lies again.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Villago Delenda Est: I think it’s more than just the horse race. We’re now twenty five years past the ‘great crash’ of ’87, when the joke was “When the market crashed in ’29, reporters called their editors, in ’87 they called their brokers.” And since then, there has been a cultural and generational shift in the media. I despised Tim Russert, but he really did have working class roots. Sam Donaldson could be a buffoon, but he was, effectively, a Roosevelt-Kennedy Democrat. I don’t know how David Gregory, John King or Jake Tapper grew up, but I’m guessing they worry more about deducting mortgage interest and property taxes on their water- or slope side vacation homes than they do student loan interest, or individual health insurance premiums. And the journos who aren’t in that class, like so many Americans, hope and expect to be sooner rather than later. Gregory is such an obvious (and odious) Randian supply-sider I can’t believe it doesn’t get more attention.
Shorter me: The Establishment media are tote-baggers who are gonna vote for Romney telling themselves, Oh, he’s not one of those…
karen
Lloyd Grove on Daily Beast also had a narrative on how Obama could be “mean.”
That, more than anything, shows you how the rules are different for Democrats and Repubichairians. Especially black Democrats that are President.
They might as well just say “Obama’s not being a punching bag so he’s not doing his job and that makes him the angry black man and we DON’T want that…”
Fuckers.
karen
I know one who won’t. He can be a jerk sometimes but Chris Matthews really HATES Romney.
Baud
@gbear: It really is remarkable what he gets away with media-wise. I don’t think it’s a trait that will serve him well in the fall though.
David Koch
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
that’s because nobody watches his show.
amk
Love the ‘chicago style politics’. :)
Herd the fucking cats, tunch included.
mai naem
Also too,just to show how little things changed, CSPAN ran a clip of LBJ’s tapes where he’s telling the Secret Service director that he does not need 26 Mercurys at the LBJ ranch, 2 or three are enough and how the Republicans will make an issue of it. Never mind that a President had been assasinated a year before but oh nooz, you don’t want 26 Mercurys because of the Republicans. BTW, my respect for LBJ grows after I hear one of the tapes. He’s smart with a good personality and he managed to get fcuked by the generals on Vietnam, but JFK would have never gotten done domestically what LBJ got done for the good of the country. .
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@karen: Absolutely. I mock him and find him oafish at times, and he’s embarrassingly prone to man-crushes (Fred Thompson, John Kasich, god knows who else) but he’s definitely in the Roosevelt-Kennedy model, pro-gay rights, sensitive to racism, and was one of the few, maybe the only, prominent DC figures to flat out oppose the Iraq War.
Donut
@Hill Dweller:
Romney is terrified of having to defend his public sector record.
He just wants to talk about Bain on his own terms. Not gonna happen; as someone said above, the Obama camp of 2012 from a tactics and strategy is nothing like the Kerry or Gore camps, which is why Obama actually has a pretty good shot at winning.
gbear
@Baud: He’s just so rich that he takes it for granted that he can say whatever he wants to say and never have to pay for it. He doesn’t even have the wiring to deal with it when he’s called out.
Charles Barkley just got off a great line when Romney’s face came up attending the Celtics game. “We gon’ beat you like a drum come November…You goin’ down bro'”
Hill Dweller
@Donut:
Of course he is afraid of his public record. His only accomplishment is passing the template for Obamacare.
The fact that even the liberal Ezra Klein is pushing that nonsensical narrative is proof enough the media is bought.
lacp
@gbear: Beg to disagree. Willard doesn’t just lie about the President – Willard lies about everything.
AA+ Bonds
Time to carve out the Kaplan
this could mean anyone, and reading the story, it does;
this could mean any poll regardless of how it compares to other polls, and reading the story, it does.
gbear
@lacp: Well, yeah, there’s that too…
clayton
OT: Where is John Cole’s post about Erik Erick Erick getting SWATTED?
When will Cole stop buying the wingnut?
Carolinus
@Strontium 90:
> RNC ratFr Software 0.91 beta 2
> Load automated profile 90 [“Disillusioned 2008 Obama Contributer”]
> Initializing …
JordanRules
@gbear: Precisely. Dude, does not have the wiring. Cue media horse-racers, fake-a$$ handicappers , DEM knee-cappers, 27%ers and Koch-suckers to play enablers in diverse and perverse ways.
Black metro-sexual Abe Lincoln (I’m still ridiculously tickled by that one) faces the same battle and still, he’s built for it.
VP Biden’s speech yesterday to military families was exactly what we should expect from our Leaders in the Executive. Check it out if you haven’t yet. The differences between parties is too damn striking. SMH
AA+ Bonds
So far we have seen a recapitulation of Rovian strategy from Gingrich to Obama:
Romney cannot present his public record to Republicans and be accepted, so his strength in campaigning is his private sector record, private sector success proving at least palatable to both Republicans and some non-Republicans.
Romney has no real “strengths” when speaking to the public in current circumstances, since his private sector experience was on Wall Street, but believe it or not, the Rove playbook – consolidating and maintaining a base – identifies his strength as his private sector experience, especially in a primary campaign against Gingrich, who has mostly made money through various forms of pay-for-play public speech.
The Gingrich campaign used Rove’s strategy – attack Romney’s strengths.
Romney’s strengths promptly became weaknesses by the time the Obama campaign repeated the strategy, but I want to reiterate: as far as Rove’s strategy is concerned, private sector experience remains Romney’s strength.
Private sector success remains a reliable way to consolidate the base, and the only one, really, as the role will certainly not be served by Romney’s religion, his record on inflammatory issues, the name of the state where he was governor, or any of the methods used to promote George W. Bush in 2000 that most liberals I knew proved unwilling (not unable, but unwilling) to understand.
Romney and Crossroads will double down on the “job creator” narrative and keep pushing Romney’s private sector experience. They have no choice now but to fight on these grounds, and they will fight dirty.
If I were them, I would handle the flips side by waging a war of attrition: stick to the Red-hunting angle, and keep hitting Obama’s team on either side of him, until a seemingly novel version of the Obama-the-radical narrative appears, one where self-described centrists can tell themselves “all that other ‘socialist’ business was just crazy B.S., but this is Something Else, Something Serious”.
Their current work seems to be consistent with this strategy but that may be a secondary benefit to some other planned response.
Certainly, they are on the defensive – they have practically always been so and had to have planned for it – but they have no absolutely wonderful options right now.
Mnemosyne
@Southern Beale:
I’m frankly shocked to hear that the show is good, because the movie sucked ass.
David Koch
did anyone see the shocking ending on tonight’s “Mad Men”?
Villago Delenda Est
@Carolinus:
Nailed it.
mclaren
If the pundits hate it, Obama needs to do more of it.
It’s a lot like Balloon-Juice. If the BJ commentariat hate it and scream hysterical envenomed verbal abuse at me for saying it, that tells me I’m on the right track and need to say a fuckload of a lot more of it.
mainmati
@kay: And Obama is double-digits over Romney in Ohio who said fuck you to the auto industry that made his Dad’s fortune. The Super PAC strategy as far as I understand it seems to be entirely an air game and not a ground game. So they get the eyeballs of network viewers +40 years. Granted that’s a lot of likely voters but the GOTV campaign in key states is what will matter not the air warfare IMO.
IrishGirl
I’m sure the Snooze Hour and Sunday morning crews won’t be happy, but how many divisions do they have?
I am sure the ass kissers and cock suckers are legion
IrishGirl
@David Koch: No I didn’t and I won’t get to until I watch it on Netflicks, so please don’t spoil it for me! I have only enough time to focus on one intricate storyline at a time and right now that is GOT. All else must wait until the season ends…including Mad Men, which I do truly love.
IrishGirl
@David Koch: No I didn’t and I won’t get to until I watch it on Netflicks, so please don’t spoil it for me! I have only enough time to focus on one intricate storyline at a time and right now that is GOT. All else must wait until the season ends…including Mad Men, which I do truly love.
EriktheRed
@Carolinus:
I was considering replying, “Your concern is duly noted”, but I’m glad I didn’t. Yours is much better.
ulee
@David Koch: I wouldn’t call it shocking. Wolf Blitzer calls everything shocking. Everything. I’d like to comment on the episode but I don’t want to spoil it for those who haven’t seen it. Good episode. Only two left in the season.
Karen
I get the feeling that because Romney has money, he could do anything, including rape or murder and somehow, because he has money, it would be ok. Not saying he has but it seems like the media would excuse anything he did. You know the saying about the dead girl or live boy? I honestly believe that the live boy would be the only thing that the media and GOP can’t stomach. Obama is a criminal before he even does anything and Romney is a saint. All the gaffes and stupid things he says and does magically disappear. If it wasn’t for Rachel Maddow or Chris Hayes or Lawrence O’Donnell or even Chris Matthews, no one would even know anything Romney does.
All that garbage Obama has to swallow. All that racist bilge and contempt the GOP has for him. If he has a “mean streak” then that makes me happy. If he didn’t have one by now he’d be a Stepford husband like Romney. Who has a very mean streak but of course it’s invisible.
David Koch
@ulee: [spoiler alert] a major character being written out [arguably the 2nd lead], I think that’s shocking.
Karen
@David Koch:
You think she left?
TheMightyTrowel
@Mnemosyne: Them’s fighting words! Leave Newsies (1992) alone!
@Karen: Oh goodness I hope so! She deserves to move on to bigger and better things and leave off servicing Don’s ego.
Anoniminous
When the
fuckerspigs are squealing you know you’re doing something right.See also Anoniminous and feebog from a previous thread and mainmati in this thread.
It would be foolish six months out to say it’s in the bag and sit on our behinds, but the basis of the election is shaping to be a happy November 7th.
ETA: Ohio is a Must Win state for Romney. If he loses it, he’s lost the presidency.
ulee
@David Koch: Brackets do not constitute a spoiler alert. The damage you have caused is irreperable. And no, I didn’t find it shocking. It was a long time coming.
Karen
@TheMightyTrowel:
I’m sorry I wasn’t clear, I thought it was the actress herself that was leaving. I hope not.
FlipYrWhig
I know I’m not the first one to point this out, but if leading Bain was such a great object lesson in how to create jobs, why was it that when Romney was governor, _after_ Bain, his state couldn’t generate jobs? Doesn’t that negate his whole stupid premise?
TheMightyTrowel
@Karen: Well, all the other characters who have left are pretty much GONE (Sal, we hardly knew ye). Except that she’s hired on to Don’s arch enemy’s firm and there are 2 more episodes in the season…
Karen
@TheMightyTrowel:
How can Don be so chivalrous with Joan yet treat Peggy like a child who doesn’t know her place? I have a weird theory. Since Peggy is a lot like Don and was his protege, was his treatment of her a symptom of his self-hatred. I wonder…
Xenos
@mainmati:
It is analogous to modern air power – you can blow stuff up and have jets flying all over the place, but you can’t actually win with airplanes alone. You are winning, and winning, and winning, until everybody realizes that you can’t win.
Then you decide you need to blow up the village in order to save it…
FlipYrWhig
@Karen: IMHO it’s because he sees Joan as traditionally feminine — even though that’s more of a role she works, right down to the curvy body — but Peggy is not like that and rarely plays that card. And Don’s “chivalry” was gallant but disregarded Joan’s own ability to make her own choices, so I’m not sure we’re supposed to see it as a heroic quality in him.
David Koch
@Karen: well, she left the company. since the show is based on the company, it would mean she’s out. yes, they bring Don’s first wife back, once and awhile, but January Jones is effectively out.
David Koch
@FlipYrWhig: This. Good one.
Someone tweet that to Axelrod, Messina, and Cutter: “why didn’t Rmoney’s bain experience translate to successful job creation as gov of MA”
David Koch
I guess they’re paying for license to the Beatles song by cuttin the cast budget.
Steve in DC
@FlipYrWhig
Since when has reality mattered to Mitt?
His entire shtick (and that of his party) is that government can’t create jobs or wealth and working for the government is not a job. Thus job creation is only accomplished by getting government off the back of business so business can create jobs.
It’s easy to dodge on MA, he’s already done it in debates. MA didn’t count because it was full of Democrats, Perry only did it in Texas because he had Republicans to work with.
This does play well with people. It’s the entire “look if that asshole zoning board would let you build that extension on your house, and those stupid green-o freaks didn’t bar you from building it because of wetlands, and your taxes were lower enough you had the cash you could have built it. And think of all the people you’d have paid to help build it, you’d create jobs. Now do that on a huge scale and you see how those damn liberals prevent corporations from creating jobs, vote Republican!”
Any sort of attack on his record in MA will pivot straight into bashing MA for being a blue state and Democrats hating business.
Republican’s depend entirely on using family based economic sound bytes to validate their arguments, and it works! “Debt is bad, you need to balance your check book”, yeah quasi true. You can’t effectively run a household when your minimum credit card payments take up too much of your income, but the government can print it’s own money or raise it’s own income any time it wants. “regluation and technocrats prevent people from creating jobs” true when you get screwed by idiotic local laws that are a fucking pain to deal with. But while your home extension might be blocked because some asshole nanny state laws blocked it and it wouldn’t have done anything wrong it’s a different matter than pouring toxic waste into the drinking water. “lower taxes let people spend more to create jobs” yeah, that’s true when you’re living paycheck to paycheck like most people, that extra cash will get spent. But when you’re rich as hell it just goes into interest bearing accounts doesn’t get spent on anything.
Make no mistake that Republican talking points make total sense for an average family when they think about them in the context of their daily lives. Romney will simply paint the Democrats in MA and the current president as those governmental forces that annoy people enough they want to kick the cat.
xian
@mclaren: yes, I remember ’08, when McCain was obsessed with winning the beltway 24-hour narrative and Obama was obsessed with winning the election.
Southern Beale
@Mnemosyne: The show wasn’t that great I was just shocked that they launched a big budget musical about a union organizer. What next, The Grapes Of Wrath: The Musical”?
magurakurin
@Carolinus:
funniest thing on the Internet today. Outstanding Red Team, outstanding. Get you a case a beer for that one.
Corpus Christy
If, like DougJ, you’re “glad to hear” that Dems are united in their attack on Bain, try not to be shocked when the strategy bites them in the arse:
http://wp.me/pqagG-qj
amk
@Hill Dweller: Bingo.
And our own steve douche’s concern on this is duly noted and laughed off.
Kane
We are only getting started on Romney and Bain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da9hpDOY-Ig
And we still haven’t even touched on Romney’s Swiss bank accounts, money in the Cayman Islands, his taxes, his record as governor, his profiting from outsourcing of jobs, his countless policy shifts on every single issue, and on and on and on.
It only gets better.
Kane
@Corpus Christy: It’s one thing to accept political contributions from Bain. It’s something altogether different to hold up your employment at Bain as your job creator cred and primary reason why you should be elected president.
kay
@Corpus Christy:
It’s dishonest to conflate individual donors with a company or sector.
If I donate, and write “lawyer”as an occupation, am I donating under “legal services” or as an individual?
John Edwards was the first national figure I saw doing this. It was bullshit then and it’s bullshit now.
He did it regularly in debates and the idiot moderators never called him on it. Clinton tried to call him out, but, you know, we don’t have time for “details” like accuracy.
AxelFoley
@Carolinus:
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Own’d
FlipYrWhig
@Kane: Right, this. It’s one thing to say “I made millions from private equity and now I’m using it to make political donations,” and quite another to say “I made millions from private equity and now I have a special understanding of how the government ought to and should create a climate for business.”
TR
Goddammit, David Koch. You know, some of us were away from home on a holiday weekend. Thanks for ruining it, ass.
Elie
@Carolinus:
Hilarious! Thanks for this.
grandpa john
Polls show what? Anybody see any links to or names of these polls. I have seen exactly 1 poll , Q-paic in Fl which shows a change, and when you go i nto the q paic poll and check the internals, it was highly suspect, first they went from Obama +7 to Rmoney +6 in a matter of 5 weeks, not likely . Secondly they had women as virtually even just 2 point diff.
Third, they had Hispanic at only 54% Obama, they must have done all their Hispanic polling in Miami.
and finally there were no cross tabs to be found. no break down of numbers polled by party affiliation, race, sex, age groups.
now one of the things I did learn from Nate Silver and 538, is that polls that dont show their cross tabs are usually worth the paper they are printed on and not much else and also No one poll can be construed as proving anything, it is the average of polls that is significant, and another thing, Horse race national polls are a waste of time,for example polling in red states will show a large number of Reps which will skew the percentage numbers but they don’t represent the swing states where the winning electoral votes are The polling in individual states is where the rubber meets the road and the most useless of all are these stupid approval polls
Elie
I think that Team O is doing a fine job of defining Romney. In general I think that he has the label “venture capitalist” pretty much branded into his hide. Even their back door strategy to throw team Obama off its game using backstab boy and Bain Bootlicker Corey didn’t work and the one who got most damaged in that was Corey cause he set up the pitch perfect Obama response.
I believe that Romney is fairly well labeled and has none of the personal or political skills to fight it off. As someone posted above, they haven’t even started yet. And Obama is doing the kniffing too. He aint afraid to tussle with pretty boy who is still letting others do his fighting — (also because he aint no good at it anyway). Obama is going to black his eyes and send him home crying to his Mama.
JD Rhoades
It’s easy to dodge on MA, he’s already done it in debates. MA didn’t count because it was full of Democrats, Perry only did it in Texas because he had Republicans to work with.
But when Obama points out he’s having trouble with the spoiled brats of a GOP controlled House, the media and the GOP sneer that he’s “whining”.
gogol's wife
Did anyone read the article about Ann and her dressage guru on the front page of the NYTimes yesterday? How the two of them swindled some woman they sold a horse to? I’m sure the Public Editor will leap to Mitt’s defense and scold the Times for being mean to him.
AA+ Bonds
@gogol’s wife:
Ha yeah and that is a kneecapper designed for the upper crust NYC horse owners who still subscribe to the Times
It’s something that “isn’t done”, not even by Wall Street wives
Especially not by Wall Street wives, who are supposed to be the half that doesn’t have to engage in cutthroat deals, but instead spends lavishly and generously, under the unspoken 1960s-style gender covenant of that set
If you’ve ever met a couple where the husband works or worked in a firm like that, you’ll know what I mean
AA+ Bonds
@Steve in DC:
Ah yes, the coveted “all humans” demographic
grandpa john
@David Koch: I’m quite sure they are aware of this, maybe they are waiting until closer to election time when more people are conscious of the fact that there is an election happening and it would make a great debate counterpoint
grandpa john
@Corpus Christy: So who is attacking Bain? The attack is against Romney for distorting his work at Bain into accomplishing something athat he didn’t in other words the Usual lying Mitt. If you deleted the lies from his campaign speeches you would have nothing left but a few articles a,an,and, the.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Carolinus: I am intrigued and would like to subscribe to your…user manual.
grandpa john
@Elie: By now you would think that people would have realized that the Obama team really does know what they are doing and know how the game is played
amk
@JD Rhoades: Bingo.
rikyrah
@Hill Dweller:
amen
amen
amen
It’s WILLARD who has run away from his time as Governor – pretending that it didn’t even happen.
I have no doubt that the President and his team will get onto his RECORD as Governor of Massachusetts, complete with ‘ what the hell is Willard hiding’ meme – about those ‘ bought’ hard drives, that will dovetail right back into ‘what the hell is Willard hiding’ in the not released tax returns.
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
Yep. And since we’re still a good 5 months out from the actual election, the smart strategy is to first destroy Mitt’s default defense (his time at Bain Capital) and then, when he has to retreat to his time as governor, pull the foundations out from under that one as well.
Since Obama always refers to Mitt as “Governor Romney,” I’m not sure where this idea is coming from that Obama isn’t going to pursue that line of attack or is dodging away from it. Strategy — the Obama campaign haz it.
Nellcote
My cspan choices this morning was Matt(?) Lewis of Daily Caller on cspan1 or 3hrs(!) of Mark Steyn on cspan2. I want my cspan back!
Mnemosyne
@Nellcote:
They must have been making up for the long Neil DeGrasse Tyson lecture they showed yesterday. I came home from running errands and G was watching it.
(Though I’m never sure if “Book TV” is its own channel here or if it just runs on CSPAN, so it may actually have been Book TV.)
Sammy
Hints of Racism as the Mainstream Media Questions Obama’s Aggressiveness
http://www.politicususa.com/racism-media-obama-aggressiveness.html via @politicususa
Oh, the scary bla man. None of the pathetic excuses for journalist had a problem with using the public airwaves to allow every right-winger and their grandmother call the President everything but a child of God. Now they have problems because the President is callin out their buddy for throwing people out of jobs to line his foreign bank accounts to the tune of millions of dollars?
Sammy
Strontium, try again.
EPIC FAIL on this one.