The Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action is unveiling perhaps the harshest, most personal ad of the 2012 presidential race, featuring a former worker at a Bain-owned company talking about the death of his wife after their family lost health insurance. [...] “I don’t think Mitt Romney understands what he’s done to people’s lives by closing the plant. I don’t think he realizes that people’s lives completely changed,” Soptic said. – Priorities ad ties Romney to lost health insurance, cancer death
THE HEROES of the Bain narrative are Paul Begala and Bill Burton.
Amid the Cory Booker, Steve Rattner, Pres. Bill Clinton, Lanny Davis onslaught, they just kept on coming.
It’s hard to imagine where the effort to define Mitt Romney would be without Bain Capital. It’s a cinch it wouldn’t be as far as it is today and the tax attacks wouldn’t have gotten the traction they have so far.
But this ad is different, because it hits the chord I suggested in an earlier post that was so important on women and Planned Parenthood. That Mitt Romney can’t understand the “mind set of someone who had to go to Planned Parenthood.”
Casting Mitt Romney as someone who doesn’t understand what people suffer when they can’t afford to go to the doctor until it’s too late, American Priorities proves why they never let go of the Bain Capital attack line, even when other well respected Democrats said it was a bridge too far.
“I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he’s done to anyone,” Soptic concludes. “And furthermore, I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned.” – Priorities USA ad
The way Republicans are talking about national health care, while coming to the plate without a plan, you could say the statement above applies to them all.
Imagine that! The Obots were right and their detractors were wrong! Again!
um… Not to burst your bubble, but anyone who isn’t a Blue Dog believed the Bain attacks would work if they kept at it.
Hey, but continue the parade. I always love applauding me some Paul Begala.
Well since Romney is the one who trotted out his experience at Bain as his rational for becoming President clearly it wasn’t just the Blue Dogs who didn’t think an attack on Bain would work!
Touché
Harry Reids claim that Romney paid no taxes in may years is spot on. Romney’s one released tax return showed he somehow amassed an IRA of one hundred million dollars in an off shore account. He can’t explain how he amassed that IRA since the maximum yearly contribution to an IRA is 5K.
Furthmore IRS contributions are exempt from taxes until the IRA is cashed in which means Romney had 100 million dollars in tax exemptions which would explain why in many years he would have paid no federal taxes at all.
You do understand that there are different types of IRA accounts don’t you?
the maximum contribution to a ROTH IRA is $5000 per year. That’s not the only kind of IRA that exists.
Wonder why people put themselves in these ads. They have to know that their private lives are now public. Politico is reporting that his wife died in 2006, the plant closed in 2001.
Guess it doesn’t really matter.
Should note that I don’t really care about Obama or Romney. That guy (and his dead wife) get used either way.
Wasn’t Mr. Obama’s bundler Jonathan Levine in charge at Bain at the time of the GST layoffs?
At least we know who President Obama’s are! Romney staying true to form refuses to reveal who his bundlers are! Plus Mr. Levine isn’t running for President!
There is a fundamental flaw in your reasoning! Cancer can take years to spread to the point where it kills you. The 5 years difference between the time the plant closed and this man’s wife’s death tracts! In oncology they have this benchmark called the five years survivability rate. If Bain had not closed this man’s plant he and his family wouldn’t have lost their health insurance which means by extension his wife would have gotten the treatment she need to save her life.
I did not even try any reasoning? Re-read what I posted.
Your post confirms what I wrote. His life and his dead wife are now open for all (including you) to talk about and opine and to use for their advantage. Go at it. Enjoy.
What you see as exploitation others see as bringing ones issues to the table. What you call taking advantage others might call having an open and honest dialog about problems in our society!
“I did not even try any reasoning?” That first sentence just says it all! LOL!
My brother lost his health care when he got laid off and couldn’t feed his family AND pay the $2000 a month cobra so for three years he went without health care while having symptoms. Once he got another job(doing EXACTLY the same thing for HALF the pay but with healthcare insurance) he went to the Dr. but almost immediately ended up in the hospital and died of cancer shortly there after.
Msd. marsh has admonished me that personal attacks are not allowed…so I won’t make one here. I WILL say that some of, not many, but a couple of the posters here sound remarkably like someone who would be exhibit A for just how vile and sociopathic the right and it’s hate filled little minions can be. Ignorant of facts and completely lacking in empathy, sympathy and or intelligence they cheer the proposition that an uninsured young man should die and boo a serving in Iraq service member who is gay.
Ms. Marsh….DANG I hate this!!!!!
Right there in the video it says:
In short, he went from a union job with health care and other benefits, to a job that didn’t. So what if his wife died five years later? He didn’t have good enough health insurance to be able to visit a doctor regularly. That was a consequence of the closing of that plant, and the general trend of plant closures being replaced by low-paying service economy jobs.
So, let me correct that opening sentence of yours:
guyski 07 August 2012 at 1:25 pm
Remember, it was his choice to participate, with Romney’s ads I’m seeing here in Virginia equally disingenuous.
Doesn’t make it right, but it’s politics today.
Yes, you are correct. His choice and everything that comes with that.