Ed Morrissey
HotAir.com
8/10/2012
It didn’t take long for Team Romney to go on offense over the despicable attack ad from Priorities USA Action that strongly implied that Mitt Romney was responsible for the death of a spouse laid off by GST — several years before her diagnosis, and long after Romney left Bain Capital’s active management. Today the Romney campaign released a new TV-ready ad that attacks Barack Obama for “scraping bottom” and asks, “What does it say about a president’s character that tries to use the tragedy of a woman’s death for political gain?”
The ad title is “America Deserves Better,” but it could be just as easily called “The Death of Hope and Change”…
…There is actually another question asked in this ad: “What does it say about a president’s character when he had his campaign raise money for the ad then stood by as his top aides were caught lying about it?”…
The complete article, with the Romney ad, is at HotAir.com
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NYT introduces us to couple Romney didn’t try to kill with cancer
“Then I got this phone call, personally, from Mr. Romney, asking if we really wanted to buy the house,” Mr. Stamps, 63, said in an interview the other day at the barbershop he now runs. “I said, yes we did. And he said he would loan us the money. He really helped us when we needed it.”
Mika Brzezinski takes Obama campaign to task for lying about cancer ad
Former NY Senator: Obama ‘Breaking The Law’ By Coordinating With SuperPAC
“They are breaking the law. You’re not supposed to have coordination between a campaign and a Super PAC, and here they have the Obama former aides running this.” [emphasis CAJ. To see what former Sen. D’Amato is referring to, watch the American Crossroads “John Dean” video, below.]
Obama Super PAC Chief GUTTED On CNN
Shadow Party Strikes with Romney ‘Cancer Ad’
A shadowy political operative with ties to organized crime is behind the now-infamous TV ad in which ex-steelworker Joe Soptic falsely blamed his wife’s tragic cancer death on Mitt Romney’s venture capital firm shuttering his place of employment.
Behind-the-scenes power broker Harold Ickes is a major player in today’s Democratic Party. A registered lobbyist and shill for leftist causes, Ickes is a longtime Clinton loyalist, who previously served as deputy chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and in senior posts in the presidential campaigns of both Bill and Hillary Clinton. During the 2004 election cycle, Democratic strategist Howard Wolfson said that – outside of the John Kerry campaign— Ickes was “the most important person in the Democratic Party today.”…
Update: “American Crossroads” Ad Invokes John Dean’s Watergate Statement, “We have a Cancer Close to the Presidency that’s Growing,” to Hit back at Pro-Obama SuperPAC Ad Attacking Mitt Romney The last voice you hear on this commercial is John Dean in a taped phone call.
