'I don't think Mitt Romney understands what he's done to people's lives by closing the plant'

[FourScore]

Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 07:30 AM PDT
'I don't think Mitt Romney understands what he's done to people's lives by closing the plant'
by Jed Lewison

Another emotionally powerful ad from the pro-Obama Super PAC Priorities USA, this one featuring the story of Joe Soptic, a former employee of the Bain-owned GST Steel plant who lost his job—and the health insurance that could have saved his wife from cancer—when Bain shut down the company:

Joe Soptic, former employee at GST Steel in Kansas City, Kansas.

I don’t think Mitt Romney understands what he’s done to people’s lives by closing the plant.

I don’t think he realizes that people’s lives completely changed.

When Mitt Romney and Bain closed the plant, I lost my healthcare, and my family lost their healthcare. And a short time after that my wife became ill.

I don’t know how long she was sick and I think maybe she didn’t say anything because she knew that we couldn’t afford the insurance, and then one day she became ill and I took her up to the Jackson County Hospital and admitted her for pneumonia and that’s when they found the cancer and by then it was stage four. It was, there was nothing they could do for her.

And she passed away in 22 days.

I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he’s done to anyone, and furthermore I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned.

ANNCR: Priorities USA Action is responsible for the content of this advertising.

Priorities USA says this is the last of five ads in their initial $20 million ad campaign introducing swing-state voters to Mitt Romney's record at Bain. Their initial buy was considerably smaller—just $4 million—but has since expanded thanks to additional fundraising.

While their first ad focused on Mitt Romney's "heads I win, tails you lose" business philosophy, this ad goes straight after Romney's lack of empathy and lack of understanding. That doesn't reflect a change in strategy so much as the fact that the earlier ads, by defining Romney's approach to business, laid the foundation for this sort of critique of Romney. To understand how effective it has been, you need not look beyond the fact that Mitt Romney spent a good chunk of June and July trying to distance himself from Bain.

Last week, Priorities USA announced it was reserving $30 million in ad time for the fall campaign.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/07/1117553/--I-don-t-think-Mitt-Romney-understands-what-he-s-done-to-people-s-lives-by-closing-the-plant

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1. Not only does he not understand, he couldn't care less

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. I Disagree He Understands

Only a flaming sociopath does not understand. I believe he does understand. He is just a greedy old bastard who is selfish and self serving. He only wants the Presidency like Bush did. He wants it as a trophy and for fame and power. He has no interest in serving the American people. And we all know he will more than serve the interests of his class.

[uponit7771]

3. "..Only a flaming sociopath does not understand..", rMoney is a mental case level liar...

...which has to have a lot of flaming sociopath to go alone with it.

I don't think America would be safe with rMoney running it...

[coalition_unwilling]

4. So sad. I'm beyond anger now and into just plain old sadness. But thanks

for posting.

[kestrel91316]

5. He understands full well - he simply doesn't care. His view is that the laid off folks can

just go get another job.

Let them eat cake.

[magical thyme]

7. +1M

He totally understands and totally doesn't care.

They can just get another job. If there are no jobs in their town, well just move to one of their other houses and get a job there. Or live off their stocks for a while...that's how he and Ann "toughed it out" in their poor, college days.

Oh, if and they're sick, let them eat shit and die.

[kooljerk666]

6. If u look at how many lives he ruined.......

.........I bet he is running in order to get free secret service protection for his
skeevish spawn, mate & himself for the rest of their accursed lives.

This is reason enough to defeat him. He deserves no protection & if he gets enuff to
be effective, he should pay for it himself.

I think this would be a great line of questioning, why do you need SS protection forever, since you have been nothing but a job creator?

I wanted to start a new thread on this but was unsure where to locate it, if anyone thinks it is a useful line of attack please take this idea & run with it, i will not feel slighted.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. I don't think he gave it a thought.

The reality is, it's all about the bottom dollar with his type. People and their lives are reduced to numbers. If your number isn't going to yield maximum profit, you get removed from the equation.

It's as simple as that.

[Populist_Prole]

9. All too many cons truly believe this "creative destruction" bullshit

As long as the macro numbers work, that's all they give a damn about.