What we are now watching Barry do is what all Democrats do when faced with the prospect of having to run for re-election on what can only be described as a rather abysmal record. In what is now becoming pretty standard fare, as well as the primary theme, for Barry's campaign, is the presenting of any number of reasons not, so much, why we should vote for Barry, but why we shouldn't vote for Romney. Barry has become increasingly desperate in his efforts to distract any an all attention away from his miserable record, and it's in that vein that we have Barry making all manner of accusations regarding Romney's days at Bain. We again were witness to that desperation in action when his re-election campaign, on Monday, bumped things up a notch in its criticism of Mitt Romney for cutting jobs when he was a business executive. All this despite a warning from some leading Barry supporters that the attacks have now simply gone too far. But with this being all that Barry has, I think it's safe to say, this is only the beginning.
The Barry camp recently launched a new ad in which are featured some former workers at an office supplies business that we're told went bankrupt after Romney's Bain Capital took it over in the mid-1990s. Opponents, including Cory Booker, the Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey, complained, at least at first, stated that the attacks on Romney's record at the private equity firm Bain could undermine free enterprise. But Booker was very quickly brought back into line after receiving what must have been a pretty thorough butt chewing from the White House, since he has now backed off considerably from his initial 'Meet the Press' comments. You see, that's the trouble with Democrats, they can never quite bring themselves to actually be honest with the American people, either they speak in vague generalities or simply lie outright, talking but never really saying anything. Apparently, Booker was just a little too honest in making his original comments. And know that honesty and being Democrat simply don't mix.
Barry was put in the position of being forced to defend his ongoing anti-Romney strategy when he was asked about it at a news conference after a NATO summit out there in Chicagoland. "The reason this is relevant to the campaign is because my opponent, Governor Romney, his main calling card for why he thinks he should be president is his business experience," Barry opined. He said his campaign was not attacking private equity businesses in general. RIGHT! "I think my view of private equity is that it is - it is set up to maximize profits and that's a healthy part of the free market," Barry said. Sorry, but it sounds to me like our "Dear Beloved Leader" is trying to have it both ways. And how depressing is it to continually be forced to hear absolutely nothing positive from a presidential candidate. We never hear any specifics from Barry on why we should vote for him. All he talks about is "fairness", everyone paying their "fair share", and everyone getting a "fair shot".
So, on this past Monday Barry campaign released an ad of nearly six minutes and that is set in Marion, Indiana, a swing state that Barry narrowly won back in 2008. It mixes news coverage of bankruptcy at SCM Office Supplies, where 350 workers lost their jobs, with 'testimony' from some of the workers who were supposedly fired. I guess designed to be a real tear jerker, it starts out thusly, "To me, Mitt Romney takes from the poor and the middle class and gives to the rich. It's just the opposite of Robin Hood," said Randy Johnson, a former employee. Ok Randy, just a little something from me to you. Suck it up! I think it's well past time for you to be putting your big boy pants on and going out to look for work. But Randy's probably one of those folks who have been sitting back and collecting those never-ending unemployment 'benefits' instead of actually getting off his duff and going out to look for work. And anyway, these days it seems that whining is preferable to working!
Starting last week, Barry's campaign launched videos attacking Romney's jobs record at Bain, focused on jobs lost after some businesses acquired by Bain went bankrupt, while company officials including Romney amassed fortunes. Democrats, at least, appear to be somewhat at odds over the increasingly anti-free enterprise tone in the attacks on Romney and Bain. Democrats' attempts to portray Romney as a corporate raider who is out of touch with ordinary Americans were made more difficult on Sunday by rising Democratic star Booker calling foul. He termed "nauseating" a series of ads from Barry and his allies that slammed Romney's work at Bain. But Booker later backed off, to the point where he made it clear that he lacks any level, whatsoever, of credibility on the issue and any willingness to be honest with the people, of his televised comments but the damage was done for Barry's campaign, which has failed to halt a rise in opinion polls by Romney since he effectively became the Republican nominee last month.
David Axelrod, described as being a senior Barry campaign 'strategist', said Booker was off the mark. "In this particular instance, he was just wrong," he told MSNBC. He said the ads are justified because Romney is using his business experience to boost his run for the White House. But be that as it may, Republicans were delighted by the disarray among Democrats. Job creation is a central theme of what is expected to be a close general election on Nov. 6, with the outcome likely to depend on how Americans are feeling about the sluggish economy. But it's that same sluggish economy and the many reasons why it remains so sluggish that Barry and his team are so desperate to keep from being discussed. Hence the attacks on Bain, all the hype about some mythical Republican "War on Women" and free birth control. And I see it as being more than a little ironic that Barry would go after Romney on the subject of lost jobs, especially when the number of jobs lost because of Bain pales in comparison to the number of jobs lost because of Barry.
Governor Romney is now running neck and neck with Barry in most, if not all, opinion polls, which is something, quite frankly, I simply don't quite understand. Personally, after what has been a miserable last 3+ years, with there being a net loss of millions of jobs, the racking up of a $15 Trillion debt, and a level of corruption not seen in my lifetime, I would think that Barry should be trailing, and rather badly. The fact that he isn't paints a very clear picture regarding just where it is that a significant number of people are when it comes to being informed. However, surveys often show that voters prefer the ex-businessman's jobs message to Barry's. Romney's campaign released its own web video highlighting Booker's remarks, and comments by other well-known Democrats defending the private equity business. "I agree with Mayor Booker who said that these attacks against Bain Capital and free enterprise are nauseating," Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior adviser to the Romney campaign, said on MSNBC.
So the question that we've yet to know the answer to, and most likely won't until Election Day, is just how many out there in our imbecilic and uninformed, voting public will continue buy into the fictional political drama that Barry is working so hard to create? Will Barry be able to ride it all the way to November 6? I'm sure that there is very little doubt that Barry will be able count on the black community, since the members of that particular group care about little more than getting their government check on time and every month. And of course the unions will gladly jump on board the Barry crazy train, even though it would seem to be in their best interest to dump Barry like a hot rock at least when it comes to his records on jobs. Since it was first determined that Romney would in fact be the GOP candidate, we've heard absolutely nothing from Team Barry that can, even remotely, be considered as being positive. Again, this is the level of behavior that we've come to expect from Democrats.
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