Mitt Romney stars in new Obama ad: 'Let Detroit go bankrupt'

[ProSense]

Mitt Romney stars in new Obama ad: 'Let Detroit go bankrupt'

by Jed Lewison

This is a fantastic new ad from the Obama campaign:

Brian: "They came up and said you are definitely laid off—everybody as of right now."

Karen: "What was I going to do for my children? Are they going to have a home?"

Miles: "Without President Obama's rescue of the auto industry, Ohio would have collapsed."

George: "Mitt Romney would have just let us go under- just let them go...bankrupt."

Romney: "Yeah, that's...that's exactly what I said, the headline that you read which is, said: "let Detroit go bankrupt."

Karen: "And for him to just say— let them fail."

George: "How can you say something like that? It's just beyond me."

It's just a brutal ad—but the amazing thing is that the guy who delivers its most brutal attack is Mitt Romney, on himself, when he says, "Yeah, that's what I said: Let Detroit go bankrupt." Juxtaposed with the people whose livelihoods he would have so callously thrown down the drain, it's easily one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, ads of the campaign. And that last question—"How can you say something like that?"—that's not a question that Mitt Romney can answer. All he can do is hope that people don't see the ad.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/19/1147211/-Mitt-Romney-stars-in-new-Obama-ad-Let-Detroit-go-bankrupt

[BumRushDaShow]

1. K&R

[madaboutharry]

2. Yes!

[Mutiny In Heaven]

3. Shoulda been doing it for months!

So much Romney material. So much footage of him to make use of. Finally the ads are what they should be after months of disappointment; the campaign would be dead and buried by now if they'd gone for the jugular earlier, instead of favouring the comparatively vapid "severely conservative" tip over his general two-faced sleaziness and inability to keep a straight story.

[Cirque du So-What]

6. That strategy fails to take into account

the infinitesimally small attention span that many people have - especially where politics is concerned. I reside in a location that is arguably 'ground zero' for political ads, so I can attest to the fact that the sheer volume is mind-numbing, even for a politically-attuned individual such as myself. Better, IMO, to save the best stuff for the home stretch.

[Mutiny In Heaven]

7. But even taking that into account (I don't disagree)

the fact is that Romney's first debate performance would have been neutered if, say, the month since the DNC had been blanketed with ads showing his many different sides. He would've been boxed into a corner.

[JuveDem]

4. Excellent ad

Time to take all gloves off and start hitting him where it hurts. Run this in Ohio, Michigan. Run ads where he called for the housing market to foreclose without any assistance.

Run ads using their own words and voices. We are barely 3 weeks away. Time for a final push. More Bain ads, More 47% ads.

[OldDem2012]

9. Any state with a manufacturing base needs to see this ad. It is VERY powerful! nt.

[tk2kewl]

5. I want to see a followw up that answers the guys question: "How could anyone say that."

Because they wanted to bust the union. Part of why the right hates him so much - he didn't let them get away with it.

[OldDem2012]

8. Right between that money-grubber's eyes! nt.

[We People]

10. Interesting how the Romneys profited $13+million from the taxpayer-funded stimulus in 2009

That was a great ad, and I hope their next one will follow up w/info from this new article by Greg Palast:
http://www.thenation.com/article/170644/mitt-romneys-bailout-bonanza#

[ProSense]

11. Thanks for posting the link. n/t