Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Obama campaign today returns to the theme of the vulture capitalism of Bain Capital and how "job-killer" Willard "Mittens" Romney made his fortune liking "to fire people" and to force companies into bankruptcy liquidation.
Greg Sargent writes at The Morning Plum: Turning Romney's biggest asset into a liability:
[T]he Obama campaign believes this story has not been told to swing voters yet, and it will be central to efforts to define Romney early on, just as general election voters are starting to tune in — and even more crucially, it will be central to defining Romney’s vision of the country’s economic future.
The Obama campaign is going up with a hard hitting two-minute ad in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Virginia on GST Steel, a Kansas City company that Bain acquired a majority stake in, leading to hundreds of layoffs and at least $12 million in Bain profits (video below the fold):
The ad is accompanied by new Web site, RomneyEconomics.com.
This isn’t just about attacking Romney’s wealth and character. It’s about turning Romney’s number one [perceived] asset — the aura of economic competence created by his successful business career — into a liability, about painting a frightening picture of his vision of our economic future as one that would be founded on a flimsy foundation of unbound Wall Street profiteering and risk-taking. It’s designed to sow doubts about whether a President Romney would truly have the economic security of middle class Americans at heart, and to make him the walking embodiment of the economic behavior that led to the meltdown and to years of widespread economic misery in its wake.
The ad is similar to ads on this same topic run against Romney during the GOP primary by his opponents.
Here is the Winning Our Future Super PAC documentary (pro Gingrich) from earlier this year, "When Mitt Romney Came To Town" (Full, complete version).
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My sound card is busted — and my wife is asleep so I can’t borrow the laptop — but the ad looks good, and powerful. But I have one complaint with it — and warning, I expect to be saying the same thing about twenty times, because I don’t expect it to change.
I am (insert half-page of profanity here) tired of Democratic Presidential Candidates refusing to admit they are members of a pretty damn good party, the Democratic Party. I’m not voting for some individual named Obama who happens to be running for President, I’m voting for the supposed leader of the Party whose policies and ideals have, for many years, been close to how I wanted to see America change. (I wonder if I would be voting for him without the Party. I’m not an FDL-type idiot who sees him as an evil monster, but I don’t consider him as having done that great a job. He reminds me of the center foielder who always gets a bad jump on the ball, takes a dubious route to it, but whose speed and sure hands let him make spectacular plays on balls that should have been easy outs.)
Anyway, can we start possibly hinting to the White House that we are proud to be Demcrats, and wish he’d show the same pride — and that it might just help, not hurt, the down-ballot candidates?