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New Romney ad presses Obama-disappointment theme
Hot Air.com ^ | October 6, 2012 | ED MORRISSEY

Posted on 10/06/2012 8:04:21 AM PDT by Kaslin

What’s the best way to capitalize on an opponent’s remarkably disappointing performance in a televised debate? Remind people that he has disappointed them in more ways that just rhetorically. Team Romney takes advantage of the emerging consensus to present “Melanie,” a small-business owner who supported Barack Obama in 2008 but has come to regret it. For an added bonus, Melanie McNamara argues that women with families ought to be supporting Mitt Romney rather than gender-warrior Obama in order to maximize the opportunities their children will have in the future:

Melanie

“I’m disappointed in Barack Obama as my president. Because he promised to bring us all together and we’re all going to be able to prosper. I don’t see the prospering. In 2008, I voted for Barack Obama. He doesn’t have my vote this time.

“Why Mitt Romney? Being a woman, you think about your children and you think about their future. And what I want to think about is a future that has jobs. That our economy’s growing again. That’s important to women and it’s important to me.”

Whether this is planned timing or serendipity, it works well with the post-debate dynamic. Many voters who finally began paying attention with the start of the debate season had to be shocked at Obama’s performance. After having been built up as such a powerful orator and perhaps the smartest man ever to hold the office, his mauling at the hands of Mitt Romney has to have many of those re-evaluating both of those qualities. And without that edge, it will be impossible for voters to easily accept the idea that Obama is leading them out of a lengthy economic stagnation rather than extending it through his own incompetence.

After all, when you’ve lost the New Yorker

… I’d say that the disillusionment is nearly total.


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1 posted on 10/06/2012 8:04:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Someone should photoshop Moochelle fist-bumping a chair...

2 posted on 10/06/2012 8:22:35 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (2008 + IN, NE1, NC, FL, VA, OH, IA OR NV = 272EV)
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To: Kaslin
awww....maybe a mint will help...



3 posted on 10/06/2012 8:22:42 AM PDT by Archytekt
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To: Kaslin

Schadenfreude feels so good.


4 posted on 10/06/2012 8:22:45 AM PDT by MomofMarine
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To: Kaslin

Good ad.


5 posted on 10/06/2012 8:48:29 AM PDT by boycott (CAL)
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To: MomofMarine

Doesn’t it?


6 posted on 10/06/2012 8:54:11 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

Maybe include in an add that Obama wants to add contraception benefits because he doesn’t plan on too many people having a job to pay for it themselves because of the economy he and his administration are creating.


7 posted on 10/06/2012 9:01:00 AM PDT by HangingTuff
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To: Kaslin

Very good ad.

The Obama family meltdown is going to be quite entertaining.


8 posted on 10/06/2012 9:24:20 AM PDT by Gator113 (I would have voted for NEWT, now it's Ryan and the other guy.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: Kaslin
We must not over play the "empty chair" routine, lest we cause citizens to overlook the chair that has been "filled" with an arrogant determination to assume powers never delegated to any President by "the People's" Constitution!Witness the arrogant and exorbitant exercise of Executive Orders!

The powers which have assembled over several decades, culminating in the election of this President, may calculate that the perception is harmless as long as he is achieving the goal of singlehandedly dismantling the Constitution's restrictions on his power, in violation of his Oath to uphold its provisions and protections for "the People."

Just a thought!

9 posted on 10/06/2012 9:58:15 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: loveliberty2

Excellent point


10 posted on 10/06/2012 10:00:49 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: left that other site

disappointment theme ....sound familiar ?


11 posted on 10/06/2012 10:51:52 AM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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To: StAnDeliver
From your lips...



12 posted on 10/07/2012 4:57:37 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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