Obama hits Romney for ... calling for increased defense spending
When is the last time a Democrat attacked a Republican for advocating an increase in defense spending?
This says a good deal about what the Obama team thinks about the state of public opinion right now. The ads goal is to associate Romney directly with George W. Bush specifically, with the nexus of Bush adventurism abroad and the Bush deficit without mentioning Bushs name. The ad is about fiscal policy, but its also meant to suggest that Romney would continue Bushs approach to foreign policy, and that we cant afford to go that route again. The calculation seems to be that the war weariness of the American public and the publics awareness of the role of Bushs wars in driving up the deficit make it politically safe, or even a potential winner, to call out Romneys proposed increase in defense spending as fiscally reckless.
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