Willard ‘Mittens’ Romney gets hit from the right and the left in new ads

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This shameless shapeshifter deserves it, really. Willard "Mittens" Romney gets hit from the right and the left in new ads.

Last week, former Utah governor Jon Huntsman slammed Romney as a “perfectly lubricated weathervane,” followed soon after by this video highlighting some of the former Massachusetts governor’s recent flip-flops.

As Steve Benen noted, Political Animal – The ‘perfectly lubricated weathervane’ keeps spinning:

It’s a 90-second video, the last 20 of which shows Huntsman talking about Romney’s failure to show leadership. But perhaps the best part about the clip is that the first 70 seconds are so strong, they could be used by anyone, in either party, without so much as an edit.

As Rachel Maddow noted yesterday, it’s a video with an indefinite lifespan — “every other candidate can just pop themselves in at the end.”

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If Democrats — Obama’s re-election team, the DNC, allied super PACs, etc. — are smart, they’re taking note at what Huntsman is up to.

Priorities USA Action, a Super PAC that supports President Obama, released this absolutely brutal video this morning, going after the former Massachusetts governor on the economy. The flip-flops weren’t mentioned at all, because they didn’t have to be. Political Animal – It’s about far more than flip-flops:

The 97-second video — too long for a broadcast ad — covers quite a bit ground, intending to show the viewer what America could expect from Romney presidency. We learn that the Republican frontrunner supports the Tea Party; ran an equity firm that laid off thousands of American workers; believes corporations are people; favors Wall Street; supports foreclosures; wanted to let Detroit go bankrupt; had an abysmal jobs record in Massachusetts; wants far-right justices on the U.S. Supreme Court; backs privatization of Social Security; and generally toes the party line on everything from Medicare to Planned Parenthood, climate change to student aid.

“There are a lot of reasons not to elect me,” Romney says in the clip.

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If this is the basis of the 2012 message, the president’s allies have a compelling and persuasive argument to make.