First, here’s a powerful ad:
Second — today’s word, boys and girls, is Romney-hood. This may become the center of President Obama’s stump speeches:
On the campaign trail Monday, President Obama debuted a new attack on Mitt Romney’s tax plan, continuing with his campaign’s leveraging of the recent Tax Policy Center study. From a pool reporter following Obama to a fundraiser in Connecticut:
“The entire centerpiece” of Romney’s economic plan is a $5 trillion tax cut, he said.
The president spoke of the Tax Policy Center’s analysis of Romney’s plan again.
“It’s like Robin Hood in reverse — it’s Romney-hood.” The crowd laughed and roared and whistled its approval.
The Romney campaign, predictably, said President Obama is trying to distract people from “the issues.” If Mitt’s damnfool tax plan isn’t an “issue,” I don’t know what is.
I’m not sure I like that ad. To me, it veers a little bit too close to a message that “Mitt Romney’s indifference killed my wife”, but that may be just me. This comes across too much as blaming Mitt Romney for causing his wife’s cancer.
It just feels wrong to be cheapening this woman’s illness and death by using it as a political attack, when there are so many other ways of attacking Romney. And there is no guarantee that even with the health coverage he lost they would have found the cancer in time. Even with Obamacare, people will be dying of stage 4 cancers.
Cancer sucks, completely independently of Mitt Romney. And, while I’m completely in agreement that Mitt doesn’t understand the effect his decisions have on us groundlings, I’m sure that if he were confronted with this woman’s story, he’d be sad about it, (or perhaps more accurately, run the emotional simulation program with the setting on “sad”.)
Of course, that said, this ad is nowhere near as offensive as most of the other side’s ads are, even when they aren’t trying to be controversial or hard-hitting.
“Hi, I’m Romney Hood! I rob from the middle class and poor people, and give to the rich!!!
Hey, I’M RICH! So, that means I get to keep a lot of what I take from you saps, marks, rubes, dolts, suckers, and morons, I MEAN – FELLOW CITIZENS!
Friar Huck-abee – see what these poor people have to give to us deserving rich “Job Creators.!”
Open-up your wallets, folks, to Friar Huck-abee and Little John Bolton. The Friar will bless you, and Little John won’t beat on you like you were an Iranian scientist with a watch that had uranium hands.”
Obama needs to repeat “Romney hood” over and over and over again. This phrase is a gift – in two words it concisely conveys everything important to know about Mitt Romney. That ad, like it or not, is all about taking from ordinary people and giving to the rich – Romney hood. Most Democrats are tongue-tied when it comes to explaining themselves to the public, and so the GOP has been more than willing to step in and effectively castigate them. This phrase has the power to turn the tables on that dynamic. It needs to drilled into everyone’s mind this fall.
Deadly accurate and succinct. Perfect. Unlike the GOP, which does “wildly inaccurate” and succinct.
I don’t think you got the point biggerbox. The ad is not trying to imply that his wife’s cancer was a result of the plant closing. It implied that the wife, without health insurance got no exams or regular checkups that may have revealed the cancer at an earlier stage. She put off her health care until she was so sick that she had to go to the ER, by which time it was too late to help. This is what really happens to people without health insurance.
In response to “Romneyhood” team Rmoney has come up with the really really neat phrase “Obamaloney” How long till we have to call a time out? I know you are but what am I?
As a political strategy, it’s interesting.
First, it again ties Bain to job loss and pain, in an attempt to eliminate the ability to use it as a positive achievement.
Second, it points out the stark difference in the two candidates. Obama is pushing for everyone to have health insurance coverage. Romney is pushing to eliminate the reforms.
This second thing is something that I think Obama needs to emphasize, and I think it’s one of the stronger points. “In just two more years, insurance companies will have to offer one price to anyone, with just a few categories for age, and 80% of that price will have to go to cover medical expenses. No denial for pre-existing conditions; no recission if you forget to mention that tonsillectomy. If you don’t make a lot of money, you’ll get help to buy insurance. If you don’t like these reforms, vote for Romney.”