DNC launches ad campaign against Mitt Romney

[jaxx]

<..> * DNC launches ad campaign against Mitt Romney: The DNC is going up with this new ad in six swing states painting Romney as a flip flopper on health reform and abortion, the latest reminder that Dems view Romney as the all but certain nominee, despite Newt Gingrich’s surge:

DNC TV AD: "Trapped"

The footage of Romney previously claiming that he’s happy Obama modeled health reform on his Massachusetts seems partly designed to sow more doubts among Republicans about Romney. The idea is to remind them he won’t exactly be well suited to attacking “Obamacare” as the GOP nominee and that his inconsistencies constitute a major weakness in a general election, giving Dems plenty of fodder for attack ads.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum..._blog.html

I like this one. Mitt v Mitt.

[jaxx]

Romney in 2006 Backed Immigration Stance He Now Deems ‘Amnesty’

By Julie Hirschfeld Davis - Nov 27, 2011 11:01 PM CT

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who charged Republican presidential primary rival Newt Gingrich with proposing “amnesty” for certain illegal immigrants, took a nearly identical position in a 2006 Bloomberg interview, saying some foreigners who entered the U.S. illegally should be allowed to remain and gain legal status.

Romney, who at the time hadn’t yet declared his first presidential candidacy for 2008, told reporters and editors in Bloomberg News’s Washington bureau that the 11 million immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally “are not going to be rounded up and box-carred out.” Law-abiding people who pay taxes, learn English and don’t rely on government benefits should be allowed to “get in line” to apply for citizenship, he said.

“We need to begin a process of registering those people, some being returned, and some beginning the process of applying for citizenship and establishing legal status,” Romney said during the March 29, 2006, session.

<..> “What he needs to be careful about is, 2012 is not 2008. Immigration and social issues are not the defining issues for Republican caucus-goers,” Gross said. “To the extent that he appears to pander on immigration issues, I think it will hurt.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-28...cizes.html

[Treestar]

Mitt is actually more dishonest when he is trying to appeal to the tea party far right Republicans. Obviously he has more moderate views.

Mitt v. Mitt!

[RoyGBiv]

(11-28-2011 09:01 AM)Treestar Wrote:  Mitt is actually more dishonest when he is trying to appeal to the tea party far right Republicans. Obviously he has more moderate views.

I used to think that, but I'm starting to believe he's more of an empty suit. The views he held as governor seem to be the result of what the people pulling his strings thought he could get away with. His "Miit vs. Mitt" tendencies are evidence of that. He says whatever he has to say (or is told to say) in a given moment and has few positions that are truly his own.

Or so it seems. Bush was the same way.

[jaxx]

http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/11/...um=twitter

[jaxx]

Billionaire Investor Who Compared Taxing The Rich To Nazi Invasions Will Hold Fundraiser For Romney

By Pat Garofalo on Nov 28, 2011 at 10:35 am

falo on Nov 28, 2011 at 10:35 am

Stephen Schwarzman

Last summer, mega-investor and Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman — who has a net worth of about $4.7 billion, according to Forbes — said Democratic efforts to close a pernicious tax provision known as the carried interest loophole was akin to Nazi invasions during World War II. “It’s a war,” Schwarzman said. “It’s like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.”

This particular loophole lets private equity executives and hedge fund managers, who are some of the wealthiest people on the planet, pay exceedingly low tax rates. As billionaire investor Warren Buffet explained, “Some of us are investment managers who earn billions from our daily labors but are allowed to classify our income as ‘carried interest,’ thereby getting a bargain 15 percent tax rate.”

<..> Stephen Schwarzman, chairman of the world’s largest private-equity firm, will host a fundraiser for Mitt Romney at his Park Avenue apartment next month, a sign that Romney is closing the sale with Wall Street’s wealthiest donors.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/11...de-poland/

[jaxx]

MittvMitt.com: The story of two men trapped in one body

Talk about a flip-flopper! Great video.

[Cha]

(11-28-2011 10:08 AM)jaxx Wrote:  MittvMitt.com: The story of two men trapped in one body

Talk about a flip-flopper! Great video.

This is the BEST ONE! I was going to post it but decided to look to see if you had already. Mitt vs Mitt..Conan had it right but I'll go further and say mitt vs mitt 2 minutes ago.

[jaxx]

Mitt is being shown to be a freaking liar. He goes where the wind blows.....no integrity at all.

[jaxx]

Mastermind of $850,000 Smear Campaign Against Occupy Wall Street Co-Hosting Mitt Romney Fundraiser

Today, Politico Influence reports that one of the four masterminds of the proposed smear campaign, Republican lobbyist Sam Gelduldig, will be co-hosting a Young Professionals for Mitt Romney fundraiser in Washington D.C on December 14. Before becoming a lobbyist Geduldig was a top adviser to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11...undraiser/

To refresh your memory, this is the plan Mitt's host wanted:

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sectio...-msnbc.pdf

[Drunken Irishman]

This is probably the most damning thing about ANY of the Republican candidates.

I know that sounds ridiculous, with everything they've said and done - but when it comes to leading, you know, real convictions, this stuff kills campaigns.

Kerry could never shake that flip-flopper image and it really sunk him in an election the Democrats probably should have won. I know there were other aspects to that campaign, the total media bias in favor of Bush, the fishy stuff in Ohio and the Swiftboaters, but I think the "he was for it before he was against it" line really sunk him. He could not shake that and Bush ran it into the ground.

Bush was not popular by the end of the '04 election. But he won because Americans decided they wanted a leader and they felt Bush was more decisive.

Romney is going to face those same problems, except against a competent campaigner - which Kerry obviously didn't face.

[Brewman_Jax]

The truth about the Mittflopper. He never made a stand that he couldn't change for a political campaign.