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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney and surrogates fight back - Call Obama unAmerican and foreign.
Romney attempted to go back on the offensive today. He misquoted, intentional or otherwise, what the President said about businesses not becoming successful on their own. Thats the right course for the country, Romney added. His course is extraordinarily foreign. http://washingtonexaminer.com/romney-obamas-economic-philosophy-is-extraordinarily-foreign/article/2502374
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One of Romney's strongest surrogates, Former Governor John Sununu of NH was even more insulting and disrespectful to the President.
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A top Mitt Romney supporter went on a rampage against President Obama Tuesday morning, bringing up his teenage drug use and urging him to learn how to be an American. http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/sununu-unleashed-obama-needs-to-learn-how-to-be-an-american.php John Sununu, the former governor of New Hampshire and a leading Romney surrogate, told reporters that Obamas recent defense of public infrastructure shows he doesnt understand how America works.
I wish this president would learn how to be an American, Sununu said later.
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This is a contrast in how Democrats fight "dirty" and how Republicans fight "dirty". Democrats make very tough charges that Romney has out-sourced jobs and maybe did not pay any taxes for some years. No doubt, those are some very touch charges. But Romney could put them to rest if they were not true.
However, the Republicans choose to call their opponent unAmerican and foreign. Their choice was to attack in a more personal way. They are desperate to get back on the offensive. Will it work?
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)and they are not going to work now. All it is, is an attempt at distraction from Romney's very real foreign dealings, tax dodging, destroying American Jobs, and lying to the American people over and over. Obama's "Firm" video has hit a real nerve with them.
malaise
(269,254 posts)They are empty vessels making noise.
Keep on nailing them Obama!!
kentuck
(111,110 posts)Good point, malaise.
aquart
(69,014 posts)maddezmom
(135,060 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Rmoney's already implicated in offshoring/outsourcing American jobs, and farming out jobs to 3rd-world wage slaves, and then he hid his profits from those ventures away in Swiss, Bermudan and Cayman Island tax havens. Reeeeeal patriotic of him...
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)Majority of the people like Obama personally. They see him as a good man, loving father. Patriotic American (After all he did kill Osama bin Laden)...might backfire big time, making the GOP look crazy & Xenophobic.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)I think that only works with the hard-core rabid RWingers... the rest of America most likely thinks its absurd.
spanone
(135,919 posts)abolugi
(417 posts)having to secure their base or something...
maybe the internal poll numbers indicate a problem?