Romney Ad Attacks Obama’s Character Over Cancer Ad

washingtonexaminer.com ^ | August 10, 2012 | Joel Gehrke

[BarnacleCenturion]

Mitt Romney’s campaign released a television ad asking what it says about President Obama’s character that his super PAC released a video suggesting that Romney caused a woman to die of cancer.

“What does it say about a president’s character when his campaign tries to use the tragedy of a woman’s death for political gain?” the narrator in the Romney ad asks. The video features still shots of the Priorities USA Action ad and of campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki claiming that she “can’t speak” to the ad during a recent appearance on CNN.

[Mouton]

I agree, he has to do it but not go over the line...this one was perfect. Go over the line you look worried, don’t fight and you look like a loser whimp. This one is perfect on all counts.

Now rather than counter punching, Romney needs to begin taking it to the fag immigrant. I’d start with Obamacare...ah, it is not a tax, but wait it is.

Then get onto the “secret” stuff, like his writing EO’s to do the work that congress should while keeping them quiet as he can. Juxtapose that against requests for birth certificates, passport records, school records and end up just what is the most transparent pResident hiding.

[jwalsh07]

It’s a real good ad but I wouldn’t mind it much if Romney called Obama a f*cking lying marxist pig.

[montag813]

Ok, tell us your ad.

You will see them on your tube in a few weeks.

[mrsmel]

I definitely want him to hit back on Obongo’s low blows and not let him get away with them, but I also want him to be relentless on the economy, because Obongo doesn’t have a leg to stand on regarding what he’s done to the economy and how he’s trying to stick it to taxpayers. He’s not only doing nothing to spur jobs and growth, he’s doing actively detrimental things. Obongo wants everyone to just ignore the elephant in the room-the economy.

[chooseascreennamepat]

Yup. Its all over. Might just as well concede now and save the money. You are right as rain. Sheeeeeeeee-it.

[1010RD]

Romney better stay on this. The top searches for “GST Steel” point to Obama’s attack sites. It’s called Romneynomics or something.

The biggest truth is that GST was going down no matter what.

Romney ought to run commercials showing all the people who would have died under Obamacare. I know people who beat Stage IV cancer that would have been placed on palliative care and left to die on Obamacare.

[1010RD]

Excellent suggestion as it is simpler and more direct.

[LS]

It will take a little while to see how effective this is. You certainly don’t know. But we DO know that both the “welfare” ads are driving the Zero people crazy, and as Rush said today, the first one alone undid all the “rich kid” crap they’ve been throwing at Romney for a month.

[1010RD]

Montag is correct. That ad is tougher than McCain would have been, but a marshmallow tossed at a pillow would be tougher than McCain’s campaign.

Romney needs to connect the dots and use the voice of Obama’s people denying and then admitting it. To simply parry the blow is to lose. You’ve got to thrust the point home.

Then do it over and over and over again. I think you set Obama up as a Nixon on governance and a Carter on economics and do so relentlessly.

Team Romney is getting better, but they certainly don’t seem to have the killer instinct you’d expect this late in the campaign.

Obama needs to be politically wounded til he bleeds out of office. His meme is a base, but effective appeal to Romney’s strength - business management. Obama’s admits his success, but says it comes at the cost of people’s lives. Envy is real and Obama is desperate. I believe that this type of ad is aimed more at his base than at independents.

However you’ll not be able to beat Obama at the class warfare game. You need to make it clear that Obama is a liar - per the ad at the link, but it’s too soft. Then you need to point out Obama’s destruction of whole sectors of the economy.

[PghBaldy]

I don’t care about a guy using his dead wife. I care about the Prez and his thugs lying about an opponent, repeatedly. Lying about another person’s behavior or character is awful.

[Whats-wrong-with-the-truth]

Obomba's camp has committed so many felonies and broken so many campaign laws in this one ad it's mind boggling yet not one person to my knowledge is seeking to file charges. What obomba's campaign staff has done here is so egregious that if John Edwards had done even a tenth what obama has done here he would never get out of jail.

If we don't get some people in office with the balls to enforce the laws and to protect the US Constitution this country is doomed.

[agere_contra]

Yep, good ad.