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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Obama ad: 'Romney's tax plan? He pays less. You pay more.'
by Jed Lewison
Brutal new ad from the Obama campaign set to air in New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Colorado, and Nevada:
You can tell from the script that it's a brutal ad, but the words alone don't do it justice. Take, for example, this image of Mitt Romney deplaning in front of Donald Trump's jet from the 20 second mark:
The message is obvious: Mitt Romney is fighting for guys like Donald Trump and himself, and he'll screw you over in a heartbeatand his tax plan is a perfect example of that.
With a normal politician, it might be impossible to convince voters that a plan like the one Romney is proposing requires tax hikes on the middle-class to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. Most voters just won't believe a typical politician would be that dumb, even if their plan actually does exactly that. But Mitt Romney isn't a typical politician, and everything about himincluding his refusal to release his tax returns before 2010makes this line of attack credible. And with a situation like that, the Obama campaign isn't going to back down.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/02/1115995/-New-Obama-ad-Romney-s-tax-plan-He-pays-less-You-pay-more
Thrill
(19,178 posts)Knockout blow
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)LOVE IT!!!
EnviroBat
(5,290 posts)God I hope we can keep this momentum going until November!
bigtree
(85,998 posts)Perfect phrasing, to the point.
Spazito
(50,371 posts)Hard hitting and factual, it doesn't get better than that!
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BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)Funny how white guys who will never sniff the capital gains rate will vote for Romeny anyway.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)The RepublicProles who listen to Rush and watch Fox and actually believe the corporate crap propaganda spewed at them are going to be sorryass when they see their 'betters' -- the 1% Republicans -- laffing their asses off as under Willard they get MORE MORE MORE tax dodges, while the RepubliProles pay MORE MORE MORE just like regular suckers.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)And they are hitting home. Hard.
Romney has now gone out and hired a PR person to attempt to shore up this problem as John Sununu has been a failure in that role. http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/romney-taps-paulson-fannie-mae-vet-for-bain-rehab
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)proud patriot
(100,707 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)DaveJ
(5,023 posts)This is becoming an exercise in seeing just how out of touch with reality cons can get.
They are upset Romney has to pay more, couldn't care less if he's making THEM pay more.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)More dollars is more dollars.
Maybe some people have a hard time with percentages?
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Nearly as good as the Romney singing ad.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,235 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)as background, contrasted with Mittens.
Sienna86
(2,149 posts)Really.
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)ecstatic
(32,712 posts)Assuming he paid no taxes at all in the past 10 years, I paid more income taxes than Romney, a mega-millionaire, since 1999!!! Unfair and wrong on multiple levels!
Kahuna
(27,311 posts)Chemisse
(30,813 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)by Jacoby Jonze
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Now this is the guy that called the Bain attacks false simply because Romney claimed that no matter what the SEC papers said, that he left in 1999. As more and more proof came to contradict the Romney claims Mr. Kessler stood firm - but recently he relented and said it is a grey area that neither side could prove or disprove given the current information available (though I don't believe he went back to change his Pinocchio's awarded).
While we hated him for his complete inability to be rational and look at the facts in the Bain case, I believe a lot of that came from the position that he first raised the potential for Romney criminality if he did sign off on the SEC papers and didn't work there. So he sort of really painted himself into a corner and either had to stick to his guns in trusting the Romney campaign or would be calling Romney a liar and criminal. But this episode will also give him credibility with the true undecideds and indies. Which brings me to his findings in the "Stretch ad" -
You can read his deconstruction of the ad here - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/a-tough-new-obama-ad-that----surprise----is-accurate/2012/08/02/gJQAuigQSX_blog.html
But the jist of it is that Romney by failing to release specifics in his policy ideas leaves himself open to interpretation and given that Kessler holds the non-partisan Tax Policy Center is really high regard (consists of serious tax policy folks from both sides of the political spectrum with veterans of Dem and GOP administrations involved) until Romney Camp releases more details (which they refused when Kessler requested more) to counter the findings, the Tax Policy Center paper will be accepted as fact on this matter.
This ad is tough, but we cannot fault the accuracy of its key points. To some extent, the Romney campaign has been hoist with its own petard by refusing to provide sufficient detail that shows how the numbers add up in Romneys tax and budget plans. So we are left with the judgment of a respected and independent third party.
We hold campaign ads to a high standard, particularly attack ads. If Romney releases the missing details, and a new analysis finds that Romney can meet the stated goals of his tax plan, then we can certainly revisit this analysis. But, until then, for the first time in this frequently nasty campaign, we award a rare Geppetto Checkmark for a campaign ad.
What is the Geppetto Checkmark?
- more -
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/03/1116417/-OFA-s-Stretch-Ad-gets-rare-Geppetto-Checkmark-from-WaPo
Mitt is losing friends at lightening speed.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)David Zephyr
(22,785 posts)Obama didn't wait to hit Romney. I'm so proud of the campaign he's running.
Skraxx
(2,977 posts)Obama's going for the early knockout. Kudos to him. It opens up so much more possibilities.
polichick
(37,152 posts)...brutalize the country.