Oops! Mitt Romney's new Michigan ad uses picture of him in New York to prove he grew up in Detroit

[kpete]

THU FEB 16, 2012 AT 07:15 AM PST
Oops! Mitt Romney's new Michigan ad uses picture of him in New York to prove he grew up in Detroit
byJed Lewison

Mitt Romney's new Michigan primary ad has a simple message: that he's a native son. It opens with Romney behind the wheel of a Chrysler, waxing poetic about his love for the state. "I grew up in Michigan," he says. "It was exciting to be here."

"I remember going to the Detroit auto show with my dad," he recalls, the ad simultaneously cutting to a photograph of Mitt Romney and his father, standing on a roof, looking down on the unwashed masses milling about at what voters are supposed to believe is the Detroit auto show.


Still image from new Mitt Romney ad as he says "I remember going to the Detroit
auto show with my dad." The image is of the 1964 World's Fair in New York.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/16/1065344/-Oops-Mitt-Romney-s-new-Michigan-ad-uses-picture-of-him-in-New-York-to-prove-he-grew-up-in-Detroit?via=blog_1

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Mittens must have the most inept, clueless campaign staff ever.

Is this the same ad where Mittens is driving a Chrysler - made in Canada...?

[Richardo]

4. my exact thought - the Canadian Chrysler.

I second your nomination for 'most inept, clueless campaign staff ever'

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. You know at some point one has to ask. Is this just some expensive theatre? I refuse to believe

that one person can be this moronically clueless. Oh wait I just saw that "Santorum getting brown shit shot at him" ad. Never mind.

[Motown_Johnny]

5. the gaffe assembly line has added a third shift

This ad is going to end up backfiring.

I already went on a rant, on another thread, about how going to the Detroit Auto Show with the President of AMC isn't the kind of thing we can identify with, even if that was his father. He just isn't the guy next door and his experiences growing up here just are not the same as everyone else's.

I can't wait to go protest this guy next Friday.

[Angry Dragon]

6. Willard has so many houses

he can not remember where he is


And he once said that the car companies should be left alone to fail

[ProSense]

7. Another

"laundry" moment!

[WI_DEM]

8. Priceless! clueless! Mittens!

[Raven]

9. Maybe he's not Mitt Romney...maybe

this candidate is impersonating the real Mitt Romney. That would explain why he seems to know so little about himself.

[deacon]

10. ...driving a Canadian car. Nitwit Romney. n/t

[tallahasseedem]

11. This has to be one of the best...

screw-ups of his campaign, LOL!