Either the Romney campaign or a SuperPAC need to turn this story into a commercial to head-off whatever Gloria Allred has up her sleeve.
The father of the girl needs to do it on his own
This is another powerful Mormon tale which Romney campaigns have used in ads, for years.
Here is the truth regarding the teenage daughter of a fellow Mormon Bishop, Melissa Gay.
This one time effort (never duplicated in any form) for a powerful, wealthy fellow Mormon leader and Bain executive has never been done again by Mormon Bishop Romney, it was Mormon insider stuff by the elites, way over the top for a teen girl that went to a rave and stayed with her friends for a couple of days.
Mormon Bishop, Robert Gay, the Bain executive is at the top among Mormon leaders, On March 31, 2012, he became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy.
“But several acquaintances of the teen who knew her well at the time and have not spoken publicly before told The Daily a different story: one of a rebellious adolescent in a moment of high-spirited escapism who hid from her parents in relative safety in an upscale New Jersey town.
And they credited the group of new friends she made during her disappearance, including a boyfriend, as the ones who ultimately encouraged Melissa Gay — daughter of Romney’s colleague at private equity firm Bain Capital — to head home to her panicked family.”
“Did Mitt Romney ‘save’ this girl? No,” said Doug Becker, the then-boyfriend and now a 32-year-old pastor in the same town of Rockaway, N.J. “But I do think what spurred her going home was the kind of coverage it was getting, and I think [Romney] was pretty responsible for that.”
“Another childhood friend, speaking anonymously, was more blunt. “I think the ad is incredibly misleading. Dishonest is the word for it,” the friend said. “She wasn’t saved, she ran away to go to a rave, and got lost and wound up in New Jersey. She paged a friend to come get her.”
I agree. Some PAC should also make ads out of these stories:
Please, someone make a commercial out of this speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwjc9T4Rd98.
It’s Pam Finlayson describing how Mitt helped her with her premature child and how he ignored all the tubes sticking out of her and showed the child real compassion.
This is one of many videos of people who have been helped by Romney on a personal level. He has spent his life helping others and there must be hundreds of other examples out there. Here are a few more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZlB7aR-2h8 ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG2I-r69Wrk ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84w58MUagk ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIDzeB-ZhXY ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVoD_V2MClY ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vheg9queyRo.
Turn these into 30 to 60 sec commercials and play one during every break of an hour long show. Obama’s whole strategy is to portray Mitt as a monster and these emotional videos would destroy that. If you can make someone cry with a political commercial you’ve won. Mitt’s not going to run these because of his religious beliefs but what about the other groups? Mitt’s negatives are the last hurdle to overcome, that’s what these ads could do. If anyone knows of a group running these ads let me know, I’ll send them my check.