[Washington Post] President B.O.'s campaign is out with a tough new ad, "Steel," attacking former Massachusetts governor Willard Mitt Romney
...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the presumptive Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney's charisma is best defined as soporific, which is probably why he is leading the Publican field. On the plus side, he isn't President B.O...
's record on job creation. The two-minute ad focuses on GS Technologies, a steel mill in Kansas City, Mo., that was bought by Romney's private equity firm Bain Capital and went bankrupt soon after. The ad paints Romney as out of touch with the needs of the local workers and concerned only with Bain's own profits. "We view Mitt Romney as a job destroyer," says one former mill worker in the ad. Another calls Bain "a vampire. They came in and sucked the life out of us." |