{"id":7692,"date":"2012-07-31T14:41:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T21:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7692"},"modified":"2012-07-31T15:11:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T22:11:16","slug":"the-hilariously-incompetent-campaign-of-mitt-romney-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7692","title":{"rendered":"The Hilariously Incompetent Campaign Of Mitt Romney And Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the signs of utter collapse are starting to show. Mitt Romney&#8217;s campaign is stumbling its way through the election season with embarrassing gaffes and blatant obfuscation. The American people know quite well that Romney is desperately trying to hide his record and run on attacks on President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>The problem for Romney, however, is that he isn&#8217;t even doing that very well. Take for instance this allegedly anti-Obama video produced by the Romney backers at the Restore Our Future PAC:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i9x_ryQnnCg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Setting aside the few seconds at the end when they regurgitate the dishonest and out-of-context soundbite of Obama saying <em>&#8220;You didn&#8217;t build that,&#8221;<\/em> the rest of the ad is a listing of accomplishments that Obama can be proud of. Democrats should thank the PAC for promoting these achievements of the Obama administration. They should also thank Fox Nation for featuring it at the top of their web site. The ad is far more pro than anti Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Also, today the Romney campaign released a <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/1hFEL1-bO2M\" target=\"_blank\">new ad<\/a> entitled <em>&#8220;Believe In Our Future.&#8221;<\/em> The ad made some peculiar points, such as quoting Bill Clinton, something that will not go over very well with the Republican base. The quote merely complimented Romney&#8217;s business resume, but left out the fact that such experience does not transfer over to management of government. In any case, can you imagine GOP voters standing up and cheering for a candidate that the ad is implying is endorsed by Bill Clinton?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s worse is the segment of the ad that says that Romney has the <em>&#8220;Best jobs record of any Massachusetts governor in a decade.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Campaign2012\/romney-best-jobs-record.jpg\" alt=\"Mitt Romney Jobs Record\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>What a pathetic overreach. Massachusetts has had only two governors in the last decade &#8211; Romney and Democrat Deval Patrick. Romney&#8217;s tenure was, by every measurable standard, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7268\" target=\"_blank\">miserable failure<\/a>. He added $2.6 billion to the state&#8217;s deficit, and by the end of his term the state was 47th out of fifty in job creation. Patrick began his term in 2007, at the start of Bush&#8217;s Great Recession. So Romney&#8217;s point appears to be that his lousy jobs record was better than the one of his successor who served during the worst economic collapse since the Depression. Is that the best argument he can make?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the signs of utter collapse are starting to show. Mitt Romney&#8217;s campaign is stumbling its way through the election season with embarrassing gaffes and blatant obfuscation. The American people know quite well that Romney is desperately trying to hide his record and run on attacks on President Obama. The problem for Romney, however, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-7692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-mitt-romney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-204","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8039,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8039","url_meta":{"origin":7692,"position":0},"title":"EMULATING FAILURE: Mitt Romney Adopts The Campaign Strategy Of John McCain","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/19\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Poor Mitt Romney. 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Yesterday, in a monumental display of arrogance,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8125,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8125","url_meta":{"origin":7692,"position":3},"title":"Mitt Romney&#8217;s Opponent In Wednesday&#8217;s Debate Is Not Pres. Obama","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/1\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"When Mitt Romney takes the stage on Wednesday he will be facing President Obama for the first debate of the 2012 presidential election. However, Obama will only be a subordinate target in the encounter. 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