Mitt Romney Cast As 'Economic Traitor' In New Ad Campaign

[highplainsdem]

Source: Huffington Post

With the 'throw the kitchen sink' phase of the presidential campaign now in high gear, two progressive groups are launching some of the sharpest attacks yet on Mitt Romney's private equity days.

The ad, titled "Economic Traitor," was paid for by Workers' Voice, the super PAC arm of the AFL-CIO, and Patriot Majority, a super PAC linked to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Playing on the controversial decision by Bain to move jobs at the company Sensata from Illinois to China, the ad is a cornucopia of sharp jabs at the Republican nominee, painting him as a heartless plutocrat who cares more about catering to the Chinese for profit than protecting American jobs. In short, it resurrects the caricature of Romney with which he struggled during the summer, only to dispel during the first presidential debate.

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The group said they are putting $1 million behind the ad, which will run in Youngstown, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pa. (presumably in order to reach the eastern part of Ohio); and Green Bay, Wis. All of these, naturally, are areas that have been affected by outsourcing. The group is also investing in pushing the ad online, via Facebook, Google and Bing.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25/mitt-romney-economic-traitor-ad_n_2015513.html

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[wordpix]

1. Love it! Take that, you Citizens United supporters, FU

[Alleycat]

2. Companies shipping jobs overseas for profit

should be called on their patriotism. I often wondered why this point is not used. They can choose to support their country and it's workers and maybe take a smaller profit but don't.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

6. +1

[maddiemom]

3. So right, and should have been the Democratic campaign focus from Day 1.

That the man who was a major factor and innovator in the outsourcing of U.S. jobs, should be running on bringing jobs back and slapping China around is insane. Doesn't anyone notice? Thank you, national media!

[renate]

4. please take a look at the news clip in this thread if you want to see an economic traitor

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101771468

Mitt Romney scolded other Republican nominees for taking money from the federal government but here he is on secret tape (a different secret tape) flapping his gums about how much money he got from Washington for the Olympics. I'm sure his supporters will look the other way, but here he is yet again, lying as easily as if he were making a shopping list, saying one thing in public and another in private.

When I write it out it doesn't look that shocking, but I really do recommend taking a look at this.

[WillyT]

5. HUGE K & R !!!

[antigop]

7. k&r n.t