Posted on 12/26/2011 3:13:08 PM PST by Libloather
New Romney Iowa ad: Smaller government, end of 'Obamacare'
By Daniel Strauss - 12/26/11 11:20 AM ET
Mitt Romney is airing a new 30-second ad in Iowa in which he promises to shrink government and get rid of the Obama administration's healthcare reform law.
The ad, "Conservative Agenda", features Romney promising to streamline the federal government and highlighting the former Massachusetts governor's background as a businessman. Spliced together with clips of him talking, Romney is seen walking through factories and talking with voters in a diner setting.
"I'm going to do something to government," Romney says in the ad. "I'm going to make it simpler and smaller and smarter. Getting rid of programs, turning programs back to states, and finally, making government itself more efficient."
Romney also stresses stronger fiscal discipline in the ad.
"Its a moral imperative for America to stop spending more money than we take in," Romney says. "The experience of balancing budgets is desperately needed in Washington and I will take it there," Romney says.
The ad comes just ahead of the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses. The early date of the Iowa caucuses has caused the Republican presidential campaigns to have a sort of ceasefire and hold off on negative attacks and ads during the holiday season. Restore Our Future, a pro-Romney superpac, was off the air on Saturday and Sunday. The respite of negative attacks is meant to avoid offending large swaths of Iowa Christian conservatives.
"I'm Mitt Romney and this ad was shot in a sound studio where folks couldn't respond to my obvious BS."
I see Captain Platitudes is trying to work on his likability factor, eh?
That would be like Gov. Walker running for President with a pro-union platform.
Just an observation, but so far, I’ve seen articles posted bashing Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Perry - all within the space of 2 minutes. Some posted almost simultaneously. Well done./s
“I’m Mitt Romney, and I’ll say anything you want me to say, be anybody you want me to be, just make me President because I have wanted to be President since I was six years old and I deserve it.”
We already have the biggest lier and phoney for President in modern history but McRomney deserves honorable mention for this creative work of fiction.
I am beginning to think that Willard is in reality a Muslim, the way he practices Taqqiyah.
Muslim, Mormon, what’s the difference?
Taxes and DeathCARE and Romney Dictates for YOU.
And, of course, Sharia and the 911 Victory Mosque for the Invaders.
Bain Capital, has cut checks totaling $90,000 to Romneys operation.
Im Mitt Romney, and Ill say anything you want me to say, be anybody you want me to be, just make me President because I have wanted to be President since I was six years old and I deserve it.
Perfectly written.
And 100% true.
RINOmney would give away Utah if it’d help him be president.
He;s already shooting next week’s commercial for keeping Obama care and expanding the size of Government.
Jim, LL, all -- I think we regular-folks limited-government conservatives should prepare to switch gears. We're conditioned to think in conventional terms of Republican and Democrat in very flawed state primaries, and that system is broken. Broken enough to have given us McCain in '08.
We're not going to change the primary system, so in order to save this election and give it to THE PEOPLE (the real voters, not the manufactured minions of Democrats), we must go outside the rails, break convention. I don't know how or which way, only that we must.
Because either of these two in the White House, Romney or Obama WILL BE A DEATH KNELL for America. America will be a nation where the government parasite is growing so strong that it's in the process of killing its host.
Many -- we might even say most -- good Americans remain ignorant of Romney's utter deceitfulness. The method is squarely by two factors: Money (Romney's bottomless pockets) and the MSM including most conservative news media, the news outlets, the top-of-the-news reporting even on the conservative stations that air Rush and Levin and Elder, etc.
Folks say, "Anybody but Obama."
For me, it's "Anybody but Romney."
Obama wins, general folks and congress turn right regardless because Obama's support and popularity is PRETEND. People are wising up. Just because the MSM doesn't report it (and they assiduously avoid it) doesn't mean it isn't happening. It is. If Obama wins, at least we have a chance.
Romney wins, the people who voted Republican -- and many will be doing it for the first time -- in order to get away from all the power and control and government tyranny of Democrats will very soon come to hate the Republican party with a passion because it is such a lying fraud and they didn't vote for that!
(No, they didn't pay attention to what they were voting for, only what they wanted to vote against. STUPID WAY TO VOTE.)
Romney wins, Congress turns left while the people become more cynical than ever. Romney wins, EVERYBODY loses.
Romney is only a false reprieve. That's all. The Democrat who comes after him will have more power, and be more leftist, than ever. They get worse every cycle -- Clinton, then God forbid a possible Hillary ... no, anybody but Hillary! and we got our wish -- we got OBAMA! The Democrat who'd follow a "Republican" reign such as Romney's would make Obama look like John Birch.
Both Romney and Obama are sure-bet losers for America.
We need somehow to do an end-run on the system with this next presidential election in order to save this country, and a major part of that end-run play has to be TAKING DOWN ROMNEY.
The other day I heard Rush say, "Going negative works."
In regular retail and service commercial advertising, going negative only ever works in that it turns people off to the product being sold, so good product/service advertising, effective advertising, stays scrupulously positive. Those who run negative ads create negative imagery even if that negative imagery is presented in contrast to what they're trying to sell.
And paradoxically, this is why negative advertising works so well in politics -- when I go negative on Romney when I talk about him to people, I'm not trying to sell them anything, I'm not trying to contrast him to "my guy," whoever that might be. I'm only trying to tell them, "Stay the hell away from Romney." The negative stays focused on Romney.
He is a vampire!!! Didn't a lot of us see this coming back in 2008? That lying, duplicitous bastard is trying to suck the blood out of the Republican party and leave a bloodless corpse. Mitt Romney needs a stake driven through his political heart.
Now do you want me to tell you how I really feel? ;^)
So he’s going to re-name it “RomneyCare” I suppose. When he legalizes same-sex marriage, will it be “RomneyMarriage” too?
Looks like Rock
Hudson and his “crew”.
I’m hoping, if Mitt locks it up by March, that a genuine alternative will develop.
My analysis is that the only way the 40% conservative plurality can prevail is in a three way race.
At least, in legitimate elections. We don't really know via actual elections because fraud and vote ginning (different things, by my definition) are so significant that we've reached the point where a minority has seized power.
I'm starting to think of it in terms of a really good fake railroad bridge -- looks very real until a real train tries to cross it.
The fake bridge is Americans' supposed penchant for statism, the popularity of liberalism, as reflected in the MSM and public education. The train is reality, reality being that most Americans object to much of liberalism and statism. The illusion causes collapse, as the election of 2012 is exhibiting.
Third party? It will get 15 to 17%%, Republicans will get 29 to 31% and Obama will get 45% to win the election in 50 states(may be even in 57 states) ! Stop yelling at Romney ! It was conservatives problem of not able to go behind one single guy ! For the last 5 months, I have to switch 5 candidates and I am tired ! I am going to support Rick Sanatorum and if he looses, I will go with eventual nominee which might be Romney !
Maybe in your state. Countrywide? I want some of what you're smoking.
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