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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitt's ad blitz: "carpet-bombing campaign of silliness"
by Meteor Blades
In the words of former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, an adviser to Team Romney, the campaign will "carpet bomb" the president and vice president with ads starting today. One unnamed aide took the war metaphor one step further, comparing what's coming to "daisy cutter" bombs used in Vietnam and Afghanistan. The target is eight swing states whose votes are crucial to the challengers' chances of defeating Barack Obama.
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You can eventually see all ads here. A few are already posted. The general theme plays on the campaign's "Are you better off than your were four years ago?"
Each starts off with footage of Romney behind a podium telling his audience: "This president can ask us to be patient. This president can tell us it was someone else's fault. But this president cannot tell us that you're better off today than when he took office."
The narrator of a 30-second ad titled "Waging War on Coal, Gas and Oil" tailored for the Virginia market says:
Here in Virginia, we're not better off under President Obama. His war on coal, gas and oil is crushing energy and manufacturing jobs. Romney's plan? Repeal Obama's excessive regulation, foster innovation, create over 340,000 new jobs for Virginia.
The ridiculousness of the job-creation claims without a timeline cannot be overstated. But that's the theme of the entire swing-state campaign.
Other ads claim Romney will create "59,000 new jobs for New Hampshire," "130,000 new jobs for Iowa," over 200,000 new jobs for Colorado," "700,000 new jobs for Florida," "100,000 new jobs for Nevada," "350,000 jobs for North Carolina."
No plan for actually creating these jobs is hinted at other than to make the standard pledge to get rid of "excessive" regulation. That doesn't help Virginians. But it does make Romney's billionaire angels smile.
It's a carpet-bombing campaign of silliness. But that doesn't mean it will have no effect at a time when so many Americans are without work. The reality: Romney is pushing another plan that would kill tens of thousands of actually existing green-energy jobs across the country, like the 7,000 in the wind industry in Iowa.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/07/1128893/-Romney-Ryan-campaign-began-ad-blitz-today-focusing-on-swing-states
Mitt Romney responds to jobs report with glee
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021294327
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Kurovski
(34,655 posts)That's some nice artwork.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)And with Romney's history of outsourcing, lying every time he opens his mouth, and he record as a "vulture" capitalist at Bain, he people of the U.S.A. are supposed to believe "ANYTHING" this lying sack of crap says?
Romney is a pathetic spoiled member of the 1% who would do great thing for the rest of the 1%, wall street, big banks, oil companies, huge corporations, and let's not forget, himself, but that's about it. The rest of the country would end up worse of than they are now, and a hell of a lot worse of than when Bush left office.
The question shouldn't be are you better off now, it should we "would you be better if this lying sack of crap were in the WH, and the answer for 99% of this country would be a very loud "HELL NO"!
BumRushDaShow
(128,404 posts)is as a simpleton metaphor regarding an ad campaign?
Where's Rmoney's tax returns?
tjdee
(18,048 posts)I can tell you I'll create one MILLION jobs tomorrow, you can totally trust me.
Does that make me qualified to be the President?
:/
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)many watch like I do...on a 20 minute delay so I can FF through commercials