The election advertising battle is heating up, this morning, as the Democratic National Committee attacks Mitt Romney, and Paul Ryan, in a Tampa Florida, newspaper linking them to Todd Akins comments, and PAC Priorities USA Action is planning a $30 million attack on Mitt Romney nationally, its largest yet.
Republican conventioneers will wake up today to an ad in a Tampa, Florida newspaper linking Romney and Ryan to Todd Akins with a key phrase "taking away a woman’s decision — any way they ‘kin,"
Sabrina Siddiqul, of Huffiington Post writes DNC Attacks Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan On Todd Akin, Women's Issues In Tampa Tribune Ad
The DNC bought a Tampa, Fla., newspaper ad Tuesday that ties the Republican ticket to Senate candidate Todd Akin (R-Mo.), who says women's bodies prevent pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape."
The Democratic National Committee refuses to allow Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to put Missouri Rep. Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" comments behind them, running a full page ad in the Tampa Tribune on Tuesday devoted to the GOP presidential ticket's record on abortion and women's health issues to coincide with the first official day of the Republican National Convention.
The ad knocks Ryan for co-sponsoring anti-abortion legislation with Akin that made no exceptions for rape, incest "or anything else," and the Republican Party's platform on abortion that similarly grants no exception for rape. The ad also cites Romney's exchange with Fox News host Mike Huckabee, in which the Republican presidential candidate said he would "absolutely" support a constitutional amendment to establish life as beginning at conception.
So Republicans convention quests who are hoping the convention will cause American
voters to forget their summer fiascos, will get the message with their morning breakfast, that we Democrats are not going to let the American people forget regressive Republican buffoonary anymore than we will let them forget.
The DNC's real strategy is not to punk conventioneers, but to get this add picked up by the 15,000 reporters who've flown into cover the conventions and see if we can frame the issues, of the day for national media, but the image is still fun to imagine.
And, Sam Stein tells us that Priorities USA Action is planning its largest ad buy yet, to keep national level voters focused on the key issues, in The super PAC supporting President Barack Obama is launching a record advertising attack on Mitt Romney
The spot, featuring a testimonial from Olive Chase, a well-regarded chef on Cape Cod, is a new twist for Priorities USA Action. While previous ads from the group have focused on Romney's tenure in private equity, this one accuses the presumptive Republican nominee of failing to live up to his promises of turning around the Bay State's economic malaise during the early-2000s. ...
The new ad, featuring Chase, owner of The Casual Gourmet, echoes spots being run by conservative outside groups featuring disaffected Romney voters. Chase did donate to Romney's gubernatorial campaign, according to a report by the Blue Mass Group, a progressive website in Massachusetts. She's been supportive of Democrats as well, including state Senate President Therese Murray.
"Governor Romney promised that he would bring jobs to this state. By the time Governor Romney left office, we had fallen to 47th in the nation in terms of job growth," Chase says in the ad. "Governor Romney cares about big business, he cares about tax cuts for wealthy people and I certainly do not believe he cares about my hard-working employees. I feel like I was duped by Mitt Romney. I’m going to vote for President Obama."
Recent studies of ad effectiveness so far indicate the new Romney ad of former voters for President Obama, looking in the camera saying how much they like him, but he just isn't up to the job, so they are voting for Romney have been his most effective, so far, so we will see at lot more in this vein.
Oh, to be a fly on the wall when GOP conventioneers open the morning paper to enjoy the local news ambiance of Tampa to be greeted with "Romney-Ryan-Akin: "taking away a woman’s decision — any way they‘kin," I hope it doesn't make me look juvenile that I still get a chuckle from imaging Republicans spitting out their morning coffee as the open up the Tampa newspapers - "but that the way I roll!"