Believe it or not, the campaign of our "Dear Beloved Leader", the "ONE" we were all waiting for, the one that was going to usher in a new era of "Hope and Change", Barry “Almighty”, has already spent over $100 million on purely negative television commercials in selected battleground states so far. He has unleashed a sustained barrage designed to do one thing, and one thing only, create lasting, and negative impression of Republican Mitt Romney before he and his allies ramp up for the fall. For all his talk of wanting to discard such politics, Barry's use of such tactics is nothing more than a reflection of what has become your very typical, and quite unseemly, Democrat campaign strategy that we have essentially come to expect to be subjected to during every election. One that is designed around all manner of character assassination, slanderous accusations that border on being libelous and innuendo with no proof offered up anywhere to substantiate the claim being made. And it's a concerted effort that has seen more than one-fifth of the president's ad spending taking place in Ohio, a state that looms as a must-win for Romney more so than for Barry. Florida ranks second and Virginia third, according to organizations that track media spending and other sources.
About three-quarters of Barry “Almighty's” advertising effort has been critical of Romney as Barry struggles to turn the election into a choice between him and his rival, rather than a referendum on his own handling of our weak economy in a manner that can be said to mirror Socialism, Barry’s favorite political/economic system. Barry's television ad spending dwarfs the Romney campaign's so far by a margin of 4-1 or more. It is at rough parity with the Republican challenger and several outside GOP-led organizations combined. They appear positioned to outspend the president and his allies this fall, perhaps heavily. Barry’s latest attack ad, released on Saturday, includes Romney singing an off-key rendition of "America The Beautiful." Pictures and signs scroll by that say his companies shipped jobs to Mexico and China, Massachusetts state jobs went to India while he was governor and he has personal investments in Switzerland, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Democrats and even some Republicans agree the effort to cast Romney as an unfit steward for the economy shows sign of making some headway. GOP strategists hasten to add that the former Massachusetts governor has ample time to counter, and more than enough ammunition. I just wish he’d start.
"Despite all of the negative advertising from the Obama campaign, polling numbers are exactly where they were before they started this onslaught," the Romney campaign said in a memo distributed this week, referring to a rolling average of polls. They also released an ad of his own on Thursday designed to respond to some of Barry's charges. In 2008, "candidate Obama lied about Hillary Clinton," the ad said, adding there was no truth to the charges that Romney was associated with companies that outsourced jobs. And, if I’m not mistaken, even the Washington Post shot down that accusation of Barry’s as being patently untrue. Some surveys suggest shifts in the electoral landscape. A recent poll by Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that Romney has lost ground in the past month on the question of which candidate was better able to improve the economy. "They wanted to define Romney before he could define himself, and by every indication they're doing a very effective job of that," said Jim Jordan, a Democratic strategist who was campaign manager for John Kerry in 2004. Kerry, I believe, spent a very brief, yet very personally rewarding, time in Vietnam. Then, when he couldn’t build wealth the old fashioned way, like Romney, he simply married money.
Romney has twice run for president. But even in this year's Republican primaries, his own campaign spent less money on television ads than Restore Our Future, a superPAC that aided him. Most of the outside group's efforts consisted of attacks on Romney's GOP rivals, rather than testimonials to his own background and character. While outside groups make a difference, "what campaigns said about the candidates is the most important thing" in a race, said Terry Nelson, a Republican strategist who had a senior position in President George W. Bush's re-election campaign. Another Republican strategist, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid offending the campaign, said Barry's commercials attacking Romney are quickly defining him and the strategy is effective. And that's what worries me! But Carl Forti, one of the strategists involved with Restore Our Future, said Barry's strategy is more defensive than it might appear. "I don't think he's got a choice. He has to try to change the dynamic now, but the polling indicates it's not working. He doesn't appear to be making any headway in the polls," he said. There is no dispute about the intensity of the general election ads, which began in April with Rick Santorum's withdrawal from the race for the Republican nomination.
Barry's campaign has launched five commercials this month, including the attack ad that began during the day. Two others accuse Romney of having ties to companies that outsource U.S. jobs to low-wage countries overseas. One accuses the Republican of favoring a 25 percent tax cut for millionaires, tax breaks for oil companies and corporations that move jobs overseas and a tax increase for working families. By contrast, it says, the president wants "the wealthy to pay a little more so the middle class pays less." The final one says the former governor supported a law to ban all abortions, including in cases of rape and incest, and wants to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Ads in Ohio, Florida and Virginia account for roughly half of the Barry's campaign ad spending thus far, at least according to records maintained by groups that track spending and other sources. No Republican has ever been elected president without winning Ohio, and Romney's chances of a victory would be all but extinguished if Barry is able to win either of the two other states. The Barry “Almighty” campaign also has advertised in Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, on both broadcast and local cable. In some of those states, it has run Spanish-language commercials.
So I guess the bottom line here is, if the American people allow themselves to bamboozled by our current Liar-in-Chief, our days of being anything that would even remotely resemble a prosperous nation will, officially, be over, dying out not with a bang but with a whimper. The hopes and dreams we have for our children will go up in smoke, socialist smoke. The desire we have for them to have a better life than ours will be dashed on the rocks of a bleak, Barry constructed future for our country. So what will it be folks? Will we allow Barry to define the future of our kids? Or, will we finally see all of his lies for what they are, a miserable attempt by morally bankrupt individual to gain favor from just enough voters to get himself re-elected. And just one last thing here before I go. I know, at least for me, that it can sometimes be difficult to admit when we make a mistake. And many of those who voted for Barry the first time around may still be trying to justify the whole thing and are looking for anything evidence at all to prove to themselves that they didn't screw up by voting for him. But the truth is, it was a mistake and a big one. But it's not one we have the luxury of being able to dwell on. We just don't have time for that. Everybody makes mistakes, what's important is that you recognize them and are willing to correct them. And this one's in urgent need of being corrected. So you all just need to suck it up, admit to yourself that you got caught up in all of the hype of voting for the first black president and experienced what was a momentary loss of reason. The priority now must be to FIX IT!
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