On the pants-crapping currently going on about the Priorities USA ad, I am throwing my hat into BooMan’s ring:
The factual liberties in that ad are actually a bad idea because it makes it a lot easier to make the “both-sides-do it” argument. The inaccuracies are unnecessary. And if you don’t think his story packs enough punch when told straight, find someone else whose story requires less tweaking. The Bain Capital story doesn’t require any embellishment or exaggeration, so we shouldn’t undermine the power of our message with embellishment and exaggeration.
Here is the real story. Regardless of how many people Mitt Romney laid off when he owned Bain Capital, when he was the governor of Massachusetts he thought that no one should die because they didn’t have employer-provided health care. And he did something about it. But he has totally disavowed that philosophy. So, decisions made by Bain Capital cost a man his job and his health care, which ultimately meant that his wife delayed seeing a doctor and didn’t have any insurance when she found out that she was sick with cancer. Romney had a solution for that problem when he was governor, but he has no solution for that problem now.
Precisely.
Also, too: