Both David Axelrod and Jim Messina place out the bait and unfortunately Mitt Romney took it . Joe Ricketts, formerly of TD Ameritrade and whose family owns the Chicago Cubs, proposed putting together a series of Super PAC ads highlighting President Obama's relationship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Both Axelrod and Messina said that Romney should take a page out of John McCain's book and not focus on Wright. Well, of course, Axelrod and Messina would like that because, gee, McCain lost to Obama. Romney responded it would be "the incorrect course for a PAC or a campaign." So Axelrod and Messina got Romney to condemn ads that haven't been even made. Score one for Team Obama. Now while one could certainly argue that Romney is better off highlighting Obama's three plus years in the White House rather than rehashing Reverend Wright, I reckon Romney took the incorrect approach here. What Romney ought to have said something along the lines of, "We'll take your suggestion under advisement. In the meantime, when is the Obama PAC run by Bill Burton going to return Bill Maher's $1 million?" That would have place the ball back into President Obama's court instead of having Romney juggle a hot potato he shouldn't have touched in the first place.
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In a sober twenty-minute speech today , former House Speaker Newt Gingrich officially announced the suspension of his 2012 campaign for President. In today’s day and age, one has to “suspend” one’s campaign rather than just “end” it since there’s usually debt involved which must be handled. Newt’s got lots of debt — $4 million worth. Given that and the state of the race, it was time. I endorsed Newt before Iowa and stuck by him through most of his travails — I thought Newt going negative in January to combat his opponents hurt his intellectual, above-the-fray, attack-the-press-not-fellow-Republicans image which attracted so many to him during his time as the anti-Romney du jour. It was a respectable third-place run. While not directly endorsing Romney, Newt reiterated an vital point: This is not a choice between Mitt Romney and Ronald Reagan – this is a choice between Mitt Romney and the most radical leftist president in American history. Amen. With that in mind, forward onward to a victory for America in the Fall! I hope Newt stays involved with his solutions-oriented thoughts and clear-minded perspectives, nudging Romney to the right.
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This ad was coming. I thought it would have emerged later, but then again Obama’s got nothing else to truly run on: Obama ordered the operation which took out Osama Bin Laden, but would Romney have done so? Here’s the ad: I have many issues with this ad: Choosing Bill Clinton narrate a Bin Laden-related ad is poor — were it not for Clinton’s dumbassery, Bin Laden would have been sitting in Gitmo since 1996! Tough choice, huh? I once questioned my 9-year-ancient niece, “If you knew where a very terrible man was hiding and by trying to get him you might upset someone else, would you still try to get the terrible man?” She said yes. Bold, courageous girl or perhaps it wasn’t truly a tough choice to order such an operation? I’m glad Obama did it, but let’s cut-out the toughness behind such a no-brainer. Without using the tools, tactics, and funding which Obama voted against as senator, the raid would not even have been possible. On Romney likely not making the call: unnecessarily partisan and divisive attack. By the way, thank you SEAL Team 6. The Obama team defends the ad ; the Romney camp denounces it as divisive . I’m critical of the ad, not because Obama ordered the hit on Osama, but because he used it to pound his opponent. Getting Bin Laden was not a partisan act. If the ad were filled with American flags, grungy special ops soldiers, patriotic music and a narrator speaking about bravery and American strength with a picture of Obama towards the end looking stern and poised, then this ad would have been magnificent. Scary magnificent. Alas, Obama is who he is. Partisan and divisive.
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Democratic Party strategist Hilary Rosen has apologized to Ann Romney. Well, sort of. To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog .
See the rest here: Rosen's "Phony" ApologyAmidst a new PPP poll that has Mitt Romney ahead of Rick Santorum by five points in Pennsylvania, the Santorum campaign is taking a few days off. To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog .
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