Karl Rove criticizes then defends Romney
Karl Rove is coming to Mitt Romney's defense with $9.3 million dollars worth of campaign advertisements Friday, but the move doesn't come without some advice: start defending yourself.
Rove's pro-Romney super PAC, American Crossroads, is releasing the ad "Smoke" in nine battleground states in an effort to push back on President Obama's ads attacking Romney over outsourcing and his tax returns.
The Crossroads ad, which will run in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia, says the president is attacking Romney because he is trying to avoid talking about the economy.
"He's adding $4 billion of debt each day, the unemployment rate is stuck above 8 percent, and family incomes are falling. Obama can't run on that record," the narrator says.
The television advertisements come on the heels of a column Rove wrote in The Wall Street Journal advising Romney to step up his self-defense.
"The Romney campaign's response--which included whiny demands that the president apologize for his attacks--has unsettled GOP activists, causing them to wonder how prepared Mr. Romney and his team are for the mudfest they've entered," Rove wrote. "And they've allowed Mr. Obama to avoid talking about the continually bad economic news--the lousy June jobs numbers, last Friday's drop in consumer confidence, Tuesday's drop in retail sales and more."
Rove argues that Romney must do a better job defending his record or else he risks turning off swing voters.
"Mr. Romney should challenge Mr. Obama directly ... but in a way that makes the Republican bigger and more presidential than the incumbent," Rove advised.
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You spamm'n this over here. It may been appropriate in the neck'n'neck article, definitely out of place here.
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But Smokey's very good at cut-and-paste.
About all he's good at, but hey.....
*** Obama's 3 years
$5.2 Trillion in NEW debt, America's financial downgrade, longest period of above 8% unemployment, food stamps 110% increase, poverty levels record increase, gas prices increased from $1.82/gal to over $3/gal, driving a wedge between Hispanics and whites, increasing Americans on the public dole to 47%, driving black unemployment to 14.8%, half of all college graduates cannot find employment.
All in three years.
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You conveniently ignore these fact:
That the downgrade was caused by Republican House of Representatives refusal to increase the debt (completely opposite to the many times they passed bush debt-increase requests.
That the Bush/Cheney administration REDUCED REVENUE by cutting taxes at a critical time of war while greatly INCREASING EXPENSES and Borrowing the money to create the false appearance that the economy was doing OK.
That the unemployment rate increased from 4.2% to 7.2% by 2008, further reducing revenue.
That Bush/Cheney assured Americans that the debt DOESN'T MATTER, all the while running the national debt from $5.8 trillion at the start of his first proposed spending budget in 2001, up to $11.9 trillion on Oct 30 2009, at the end of his last proposed spending budget.
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Again the accumulated total paid in INTEREST on the national debt since 1988 is currently at $8.463 trillion, and that is more than HALF the total national debt.
BTW, The highest price I have ever paid for gas was $3.99 per gal on September 16, 2008, Scooters service station at the Junction of hwy 160 and 76 in Taney county, Mo.
That was during the Bush administration
Now that really is a laugh. Mr. Romney looks more like a twit than a president. Even all of Karl Rove's anonymous money can't change that.
Most of us do not care about more tax returns and when Romney left Bain...it is blatant character-assassination.
We want to know about the future and we are getting nothing. It's dumb and it's annoying and it's losing any punch...when you engage in this ugliness and finger-pointing over things that are not important...it only hurts you.
Karl Rove is one of the most despicable people to ever get involved in America's politics in the history of the country.
Bush opponents like to talk about what a terrible president GW Bush was but, frankly, I don't really blame him for much of what went on during his 8 years in office. He was never even remotely intelligent enough to be POTUS. (And I don't say that as a slam on George. It's a fact that some people have more intelligence than others and certainly through no fault of their own.) If you doubt this, just look at the photos of him while he was in office. In the vast majority of them he's got a look like, "Gee, what's going on"? on his face.
Rove, Cheney, Wolfowitz, et al played to his vanity and got him to run for office specifically so they'd be able to play "puppet-master." He did pretty much whatever they told him to do, and they got to hide behind him and blame him whenever one of their schemes went south on them. On the rare occasions when GWB balked at doing what he was told, they basically used black-mail tactics against him to bring him in line again.
This is the same looney tunes character that gave America GWBush! How many fools must America suffer from these goons of the right that keep passing off on America as Presidents!
The party of hate surely must hate America and Americans...to death!