Dems UNLOADING on Romney

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Dems UNLOADING on Romney

by brooklynbadboy

The Obama Campaign and the Democratic National Committee are continuing to take the fight HARD to a feckless Romney Campaign.

First, Chicago:

And then the DNC:

Quick and Dirty analysis:

The Obama ad will run in Pennsylvania where Mitt Romney happens to be campaigning today. Now, I'm probably alone in this, but I also feel like the issue of President Obama's burn rate is silly. President Obama is absolutely right to unload his entire fucking budget on Romney right now. Don't worry about that "people not paying attention" crap. That's the stupid strategy the Romney campaign thinks is working. What President Obama is doing is shaping the contours of the election and keeping the Romney campaign from ever getting a toehold anywhere.

These ads are not aimed at Romney voters. They are aimed mainly at the political establishment, but in the case of the Obama Campaign, politically interested folks who voted for Obama last time. Think of it as sort of an immunity vaccine. Remember, all President Obama has to do to win is get all the people who voted for him last time to vote for him again. It is Romney who has to peel those Obama voters away, but can't seem to get a toehold anywhere because Obama is hammering his fingers.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/17/1110774/-Dems-UNLOADING-on-Romney

[KurtNYC]

1. The "bedwetters" in the 2nd one are pretty devastating

[maddezmom]

2. The DNC ad is excellent

[speedoo]

20. Yeah, it's devastating.

The McCain - Palin punchline is like a dagger in the heart.

[Tom Rinaldo]

3. Obama is not spending a lot of dough with these ads

They all have limited targeted releases from what I can tell. Free media is magnifying their impact enormously. They get played on cable news, they get reported on news summaries on broadcast TV, they get discussed in newspapers, and they get emailed from friend to friend like a prairie wild fire. The Obama team has learned the old Republican play book well. The swiftboat campaign against Kerry was done on the cheap - free media paid the freight.

What I love is that Democrats are timing and throwing their punches now as well as Republicans ever have, but without stooping to their level. The issues are all legitimate. Bain speaks to Romney's economic vision for America and how he sees it prospering. SEC filings are legal documents that are required to be filed legally and made available to the public for very sound reasons. Every Presidential candidate for decades has released multiple years of tax returns before Mitt Romney. His own father made the compelling argument for why that is important.

Romney has nothing to complain about, he has done this to himself, which only makes his whining sound worse.

[nolabear]

6. Very good point. All that Romney money and really we can level that field.

But, you know, that would take something like a president who can, oh, I don't know, organize communities?

[karynnj]

10. Great points

Good to see you.

[Tom Rinaldo]

15. Good to see you too. It's all hands on deck time! :) n/t

[rox63]

12. Obama and the Dems are doing an excellent job of defining Romney

And Romney has done little to define himself as anything more than a whiny crybaby.

[Generic Other]

24. He's becoming the face of corporate America

Only 22% of Americans trust the financial system of our country. But for most it's a faceless, nameless entity hiding behind a glass and steel structure with executive restrooms most of us don't have the key to. Suddenly we get to see Mitt personify the greedy capitalist looking down at us from his penthouse office. He is Simon LeGree. Mr. Burns. Old man Potter. The Sheriff of Nottingham. Scrooge McDuck.

He's the banker in the story of Jesse James paying a poor old widow woman's mortgage with stolen bank money. When the banker comes to collect, she is able to pay him the money owed and save her home. Jesse James robs the banker after he leaves with the money.

He fits in to our mythos of what the Mr. Moneybags would act like.

[uponit7771]

26. +1

[Spitfire of ATJ]

28. He also fits the "used car salesman" mythos

The smooth talker that doesn't have time to deal with you after he sells you a lemon.

[Generic Other]

31. Exactly

It can't be stressed enough!

[backscatter712]

32. Obama's playing damned well with the earned-media strategy.

Why spend money on the ads when the cable news channels and Youtube and Facebook will spread them around for you?

[freshwest]

38. +1

[zellie]

4. Its nice seeing the DNC finally getting it.

eom

[Scuba]

5. Welcome to DU!

[zellie]

21. Thank you

.

[justice1]

8. The democrats are united, and building momentum, like I have never seen before.

[nolabear]

7. I want to applaud the brilliance of this ad! Using MS and AL governors, and Sarah!

They must be choking on their rage this morning.

[monmouth]

9. Those ads gave me chills. Excellent. I would expect POTUS close to hitting the 50% mark soon..n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

11. OMG Bwahaaha!

His nasty self thought it was funny calling the NAACP "freeloaders". His ass is now getting' whooped.

[Lex]

13. Uff da!

Right in the gut. The second one especially.

[Submariner]

14. It looks like Obama minored in Chess and Boxing while at Harvard

and did well at them.

Bartcop:

[AlbertCat]

16. but can't seem to get a toehold anywhere because Obama is hammering his fingers.

Ouch...


the mixed metaphor I mean.



The ads are great, though.

[Melissa G]

36. not a mixed metaphor

it's a consistent climbing metaphor. You need toes and fingers to ascend.

[Generic Other]

17. Wow! Those are hardball.

I fear for Obama what Mitt will sling back! Somehow I think it will be something nastier than a mudball. Some serious shit is starting to hit the fan!!!

[Ian_rd]

18. I still can't believe it. I love it when the Democrats show a spine in campaigning

It seems that the typical response to the Oligarchy's scolding of the Democrats criticizing a rich man about his tax-dodging would result in an immediate reversal by the Democratic Party. But they ain't running and hiding this time. And it's working. I really hope this is a lesson to them.

WE WANT YOU TO STAND UP FOR US!

[WinstonSmith4740]

19. OMG!!

When did the Democrats learn how to play hardball? I love this!!

All that's ever been necessary was to simply point out what the right wing was doing, and it sounds like the dems have finally figured it out. Repubs have always considered telling the truth "negative advertising", and Mitt and minions sound like whining little children. They're not getting their own way, they're not used to it, and they sure as hell don't like it. I'm waiting for him to stamp his feet and threaten to hold his breath.

[Ian_rd]

23. ... haha - he's doing almost exactly that right now.

I love it how people in the media want Obama to apologize. When a Republican has an effective attack against a Democrat, I don't think there are many calls from the media for them to apologize. But when that's reversed, I guess they just find it so ... rude! *gasp*

[Zambero]

29. They've been caught off guard

The Obama campaign may have been holding back until now, waiting for the right moment to serve up the goods on Romney. Timing seems impeccable in advance of the GOP convention.

[mnhtnbb]

22. I LOVE IT! Finally, hardball advertising.

And, btw, I have an answer to the question, "what is he hiding?"

He's hiding his balls in his magic underwear.

[Turbineguy]

25. The 4 years of bullshit

from the GOP is finally starting to bear fruit. The Democrats need to go after these people. No more Mister Nice Guy! We're dealing with scum.

[Zambero]

27. Path to victory: Define the candidate who refuses to define himself

Romney's evasiveness is giving his opposition an unparalleled opportunity to fill in the multitude of knowledge gaps that persist with the electorate. His undisclosed tax and financial records must be pretty damning for him to be stonewalling at this point.

[Overseas]

30. Keep up the good work! And go ahead and run the best ads again later.

I heard a GOP guy saying-- Yeah but that ad will be old news a few days from now.

I hope the best ads are replayed later in the election cycle too.

[aquamarina]

33. As. It. Should. Be.

This guy is such a liar, I wouldn't believe him if he said the sky was blue.

[Tarheel_Dem]

34. K&R

[eissa]

35. I want to kick those dems like Cory Booker

who criticized the President and the dems for making Bain a target. There is a treasure trove of crap there and they were defending it. Fuck 'em, and good for the President for sticking to his guns and exposing Daddy Warbucks for the smarmy ass that he is.

God, seeing these dems FINALLY fight back and fight back hard, just warms my heart.

[politicasista]

37. Good. Let's remind Dem strategists the same thing

Unload on Romney and not on their own.