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Romney's misfire on plant closings
By Steve Benen
For much of 2011, Mitt Romney's campaign relied heavily on a specific campaign tactic: they'd hold an event in front of a closed factory, then blame President Obama for the plant's troubles. Most of the time this didn't make any sense for those who care about details and facts, but Romney seemed to like it, so the Republican campaign kept doing it.
But that was last summer, when the recovery stalled and talk of a "double dip" was ubiquitous. As of a few months ago, Romney decided to switch gears and acknowledge that the economy has improved on Obama's watch after all, while insisting that Americans not give the president credit.
As of today, Romney has switched back, and has returned to the closed factories.
So to prove some kind of point about Obama, Romney appeared at an Ohio factory ... that closed under Bush.
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And even if we put all of that aside, does Mitt Romney, of all people, really want to talk about plant closings? Isn't the vulture capitalist who has car elevators precisely because he closed a lot of plants and laid off a lot of American workers?
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By Steve Benen
For much of 2011, Mitt Romney's campaign relied heavily on a specific campaign tactic: they'd hold an event in front of a closed factory, then blame President Obama for the plant's troubles. Most of the time this didn't make any sense for those who care about details and facts, but Romney seemed to like it, so the Republican campaign kept doing it.
But that was last summer, when the recovery stalled and talk of a "double dip" was ubiquitous. As of a few months ago, Romney decided to switch gears and acknowledge that the economy has improved on Obama's watch after all, while insisting that Americans not give the president credit.
As of today, Romney has switched back, and has returned to the closed factories.
Republican Presidential presumptive nominee Mitt Romney appeared in Lorain, Ohio today to deliver a rebuttal to a speech President Obama just across town at a local community college. But the site of the speech isn't necessarily linked to President Obama.
The National Gypsum drywall plant were the speech is being held closed its doors four years ago during the Presidency of George Bush ,and while the banner in the background reads "Obama Isn't Working," at least one city official has publicly questioned the site of the speech.
"When you have to clean up a mess that was created over eight years, you will not get it done in four," Lorain City Council President Joel Arredondo, a Democrat, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The National Gypsum drywall plant were the speech is being held closed its doors four years ago during the Presidency of George Bush ,and while the banner in the background reads "Obama Isn't Working," at least one city official has publicly questioned the site of the speech.
"When you have to clean up a mess that was created over eight years, you will not get it done in four," Lorain City Council President Joel Arredondo, a Democrat, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
So to prove some kind of point about Obama, Romney appeared at an Ohio factory ... that closed under Bush.
<...>
And even if we put all of that aside, does Mitt Romney, of all people, really want to talk about plant closings? Isn't the vulture capitalist who has car elevators precisely because he closed a lot of plants and laid off a lot of American workers?
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Romney's misfire on plant closings (Original Post)
ProSense
Apr 2012
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Zalatix
(8,994 posts)1. The truth that the military won't discuss: Romney is a REAPER.
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And he's indoctrinating the nation, one weak-minded Republican at a time.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)3. Wouldn't it be sweet ...
If the National Gypsum drywall plant closure could be tied to romney's hedge fund activities?
Or, failing that ... maybe with a little work, Democrats will help the public make the deregulation (that romney advocates) => mortgage meltdown =>, National Gypsum drywall plant closure connection.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)4. What's Rmoney hiding? n/t
FSogol
(45,488 posts)5. K&R. n/t