Posted on 05/21/2012 3:06:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
Let's face it: This spot became 100 percent inevitable the moment Cory Booker opened his mouth on Meet the Press, but its still nice to see the alacrity and skill with which Team Romney executed. Behold, the official 'Democrats dissent from Obama's stupid anti-Bain demagoguery' campaign ad:
David Axelrod has slapped back at Booker, who hastily cut a hostage video-style (partial) retraction of his MTP remarks, but the damage has been done. Every time The One comes after Romney on Bain, Republicans can cite three significant Obama supporters who have explicitly condemned his line of attack. Bain itself has entered the fray, as well, pointing out that their track record is very strong indeed:
Bain shoots back: "During Bain Capital’s ownership, revenues grew in 80 percent of the more than 350 companies in which we have invested.”
So they're batting .800, in baseball parlance. Can't have that now, can we? And in case you were wondering, yes, the Romney campaign is also fundraising off of this kerfuffle.
UPDATE - ABC News says the Obama camp is in "full damage control mode" over its Bain attacks:
The Obama campaign is in full damage-control mode one day after Newark Mayor Cory Booker publicly derided Democrats’ assault on presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney over his record at Bain Capital. Chief Obama strategist David Axelrod today publicly rebuked Booker, a popular and high-profile surrogate for the campaign, saying he was “just wrong.”
If I were a dishonest liberal, I might loudly ask if a white man calling a black official "just wrong" is some sort of "racist dogwhistle."
great ad put out by Romney on this.
Choice is fairly clear. Someone who has been the CEO of a major corporation, or someone with no business experience whatsoever.
Hmmm... an independent PR mafya... Ususally democrates and republicans pick from the same PR industry pool which Soros is seeking to controling via overtake and banning any competition.
Watch for antispeech legislation to fix that very soon... with McCain supporting it.
If I were a dishonest liberal, I might loudly ask if a white man calling a black official “just wrong” is some sort of “racist dogwhistle.”
Corey Booker is not really black, according to his mayoral predecessor and convicted felon Sharpe James.
You’re brave putting anything pro Romney on FR.
Good post.
Our Dear Leader and his team have a real conundrum on their hands; how to rip capitalism yet still get donations from those who have really benefited from it.
Romney wins another skirmish. Win enough of these and you win the war.
How is Al Gore’s Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers is doing?
Booker is a white man of African descent
Paying minimum wage for temporary ACORN workers for Voter fraud and Bank Presidents blackmail.
It’s a throwaway.
The left is now going to come out and say Bain is off the table. Something about how wrong it is to bring up the past.
However, they will also demand that Reverend Wright is off the table.
And the RINOS will agree.
I didn’t realize that Harold Ford, Jr., was an “Uncle Tom.”
“Obama Isn’t Working” over a picture of an umemployment line.
I have to grudgingly admit that’s a damn good double-entendre slogan they came up with.
Romney sucks regardless.....dear God please let someone conservative step up. Virgil Goode is good enough but there are some better out there.
Harold Ford Jr was always fair. His relatives on the other hand were crooks
If the PAC’s were smart (I suspect they are smarter than the RNC) they would point out that Bambi's Admin has the least experienced Business minds/experience on his Staff/Cabinet than nearly any President, even Carter.
They should run commercials pointing this out, and end them with a picture of a Lemonade stand manned by Eight year old kids and point out that Bambi hasn't even ran one of these.
Hate to break this to you, the primary is over...
And the RINOS will agree.
Romney doesn't need the Wright story; Obama's disastrous term is more than enough fodder.
Since when? Romney has not been officially nominated and even still nobody wants him so who cares? I would rather Virgil Goode or Sarah Palin. I might even vote for myself.
At least that's how I see it.
The ad wasn’t “inevitable” as the article says. Romney is not the feeble wimp some thought. They turned this ad out in 24 hours.
That reminds me of the WND multi-part expose of the Gore family in Tennessee that ran in the months leading up to the election.
I credit that expose with helping turn Tennessee to Bush. If Gore had won his home state, Florida would not have mattered.
It's funny how one's family entanglements can undo a candidate.
See Part 1 - TENNESSEE UNDERWORLD: Al Gore's Uncle Whit from September 2000.
-PJ
Yes. This ad, it’s strategy, focus, content and speed, are extremely impressive from the Romney campaign.
He’s certainly no McCain and has done a masterful job of keeping The One on the defensive. It’s all about the ecnonomy and don’t let Obama move an inch off that square.
I read it as anti-Obama. ;-]
Harold Ford's comments were this morning on "Morning Joe".
Also, instead of just defending himself, Romney is taking the fight back to Obama, putting Obama on the defensive.
The truth is Obama is in such a bad position, all he has are these lame attacks. The fact Romney is responding so quickly and effectively suggests Romney should win the election handily.
Obama's election was an aberration. His defeat will be a return to normalcy.
Although Obama is even worse than Carter, Romney is no Reagan. There will be no landslide, but I expect a solid win, similar to Bush 2004.
You won't be the only Freeper doing that...
Compare that to Obama’s mumbling fumbles even in front of a teleprompter. Axelrod got lucky in that the media conspired with him to keep mum about the real Obama. Watching Romney’s team slice up the Obama team (Axelrod, et al) is delightful. It’s the difference between real executive experience and none.
I’m heartened that Romney isn’t rolling over and taking it. McCain literally gave us the Manchurian Candidate by doing nothing...like a “gentleman”. The Chicago Machine can be defeated. They don’t know a thing about competition - they don’t believe in it and they rarely face it. If they can’t lie, cheat and steal an election they can’t win one.
The left is now going to come out and say Bain is off the table. Something about how wrong it is to bring up the past.
However, they will also demand that Reverend Wright is off the table.
In the game of chess, that would be like sacrificing a pawn (Wright) in exchange for a queen (Bain).
If Bain is off the table, what exactly is left for Obama to attack Romney on? His high school pranks? Fine. All Romney has to do is offer to produce his high school transcripts in exchange for Obama doing the same. What? Obama's high school records are "sealed". Okay...I guess they can go ahead and take high school pranks off the table...
Bain Capital was supposed to be Romney's Achilles heel. According to some hot shots here, Romney was going to be exposed as a mean capitalist in a blizzard of autumn TV ads, resulting in a 40-point blowout for Obama, because don't you know, most Americans just hate risk-takers and job-creators.
But if Romney's campaign was able to produce a positive ad on Bain Capital - using video from several of Obama's own supporters, on less than 24 hour notice, one can only imagine how much more of that is out there.
What is left for Obama to attack Romney on, if not Bain?
As for Obama, over the past three years, he has provided a rich vein of material for the Romney campaign to make use of from his wife's costly vacations to the endless rounds of golf to the total ineptness of his presidency. And remember the famous Dukakis in a tank ads from 1988? All Romney's campaign has to do is show Obama slurping an ice-cream cone or trying to ride a bicycle. What a dweeb we have as a president.
next up, DNC ad featuring Republicans using “vulture capitalism” from Perry, Santorum and Gingrich...
I’d like to see the campaign do a split screen with people looking for jobs, standing in line for jobs and the other side Obama’s vacations, golf outings and statements about jobs being priority one.
We need to stay focused on the economy.
I read it as anti-Obama. ;-]
“You’re brave putting anything pro Romney on FR”.
While I respect your right to conscience, my hope is that all three of you and other like minded FReepers are working to elect or reelect a conservative majority to Congress. We also need to make sure that if Romney wins we get a SCOTUS nominee in the vein of a Clarence Thomas and not a Souter.
[Someone who has been the CEO of a major corporation]
Remind the class there Gabe - How much did it cost Deseret Management to unsuccessfully bail out it’s Life Insurance ponz, err, Bidness?
http://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon581.htm
600 Million Dollars? Ouch, that’s a whole lota honey - regardless of where yer sitting in the hive.
Where can I find Bishop Romney’s position on the Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom - and its derivative 1st Amendment prohibition against state establishments of religion?
In English please, I can’t read Reformed Egyptian.
Excellent idea. And be sure to include shots of Obama's scowling wife as she enjoys another multi-million dollar junket at the expense of the taxpayers.
‘________the primary is over.’
Our primary here in Calif is June 5th - makes me angry.
Why bother, except for the down-ticket.
Reminds me of what it feels like when the east coast announces the winner in a national election, and many of us on the west coast haven’t voted yet.
I DEMAND AN EARLIER PRIMARY DATE HERE IN THE WEST. GET IT DONE!
Candidates running down-ticket should be only too happy to have an earlier primary - since some voters will sit this one out.
I am in ABO mode. Anyone but Obama.
>>I am in ABO mode
I’m in American mode, and beeing CEO/Bishop of the Mormon Mafia has never been a qualification for Securing the Inalienable rights of the Governed.
You don’t cure the clap by going to a different prostitute with the crabs.
Have fun jaggin off to yourselves....
People like you are becoming exactly the same as DUmpsters to me - your obtuse nature and narrow focus are quite frankly dangerous... to the future of my family and the nation.
Ban away - there's no way I'm donating to a site where the founding member comes out and lambastes someone who is clearly night and day different then the problem we are facing - you might as well make this a pay only site so you guys can vote yourselves into the most conservative ever job.. I bet it dissolves in a year...
I know for sure I'm ballz to bone conservative and you guys make me foookin sick. go choke on your self righteous B.S.
If we get another Obama - I hope you end up on welfare you hair brained cods.... I was for NEWT - now I'm for CHANGE - THEN I'M FOR SCOTT WALKER!!!! my last post I guess.... zot....
“Obama’s election was an aberration. His defeat will be a return to normalcy. Although Obama is even worse than Carter, Romney is no Reagan. There will be no landslide, but I expect a solid win, similar to Bush 2004.”
I’ve just been so disgusted the past few years I’m afraid to get optimistic; by every indication Obama should be campaigning to hold onto Illinois (or even have stepped aside to give ANYONE else a shot). You’re right, it was an aberration; I hope the American voters never trust their media overlords so blindly again.
Oh, okay, I get it -- Sharpe James is authentically black, whereas Corey Booker is just an Oreonic "tan man" with no "roots in the com-MUNE-a-tee", by which we mean a file number and forwarding addresses in several cell blocks in State.
But I wonder, if a felony record is a credential in the authentic "com-MUNE-a-tee", then what do they consider a Ph.D. degree?
Bodies under the house? A meth lab in the basement?
The Romney campaign has already shown themselves to be far more nimble and aggressive than McCain 2008 ever was.
Of course that’s saying pretty much nothing but still.
This isn’t the first time this site has gone barmy but it is by far the worst.
Something will give eventually.
This hate-driven, lie-filled, anti-Romney hysteria cannot withstand forever the steady advancement of reason and truth.
I’m sticking around with that expectation.
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Excellent post.
Not so much. Jim Robinson had a thread not long ago saying in effect Anybody But Obama, IIRC. Unless there's a Divine Intervention, we're stuck with Romney.
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