Democrats mock Mitt Romney's Olympic bailout in new web video

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Democrats mock Mitt Romney's Olympic bailout in new web video

by Jed Lewison

Mitt Romney has staked his entire presidential campaign on two things: his track record at Bain Capital and his leadership of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. His Bain record has received a fair bit of coverage, and Romney has been reduced to accusing his critics of being Communist tyrants. His record with the Olympics has been largely ignored, however—until now.

Although Romney rails on a daily basis against President Obama's auto bailout and against Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich 's earmarking, yesterday's Washington Post reminded us that as head of the Olympic games, Romney bragged about lobbying the federal government to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for the winter games. And this morning the Democratic National Committee released the video at the top of this post highlighting the massive federal spending—effectively a bailout—that went into saving the 2002 games.

It's a very funny video, particularly the segment in which John McCain lambasts the Salt Lake City "boondoggle," but it has a serious point: when Mitt Romney claims credit for saving the winter Olympics, the part he leaves out is that taxpayers footed the bill. The real credit should go to the American public. His main accomplishment was that he was an effective lobbyist for the games. And when he attacks the federal government now for what he calls "crony capitalism," what he's really attacking is the very same thing that he depended on just ten years ago.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/17/1065781/-Democrats-mock-Mitt-Romney-s-Olympic-bailout-in-new-web-video

The star is Romney supporter John McCain.

[Renew Deal]

1. Mitt bailed out the Olympics and supported bailing out the banks, but he didn't support

bailing out Michigan and the auto-industry.

[malaise]

2. K & R

Super post

[russspeakeasy]

3. Anything that johnny is associated, affiliated, speaks about, supports,

denies, promotes, disavows, admits to, or even sits next to is bullshit. This asshole hates th U.S. so much he tried to give us the witch from wasilla.
Rmoney is an asshole, johnny is a traitor.

[Jim Lane]

4. I liked the part where Romney blasts Gingrich and Santorum.

He says that Republicans have spent too much, allowed earmarks, etc., and tries to pin all that on Santorum and Gingrich, as if he himself had nothing to do with any such practices.

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5. It's wonderful

[usrname]

6. IOKIYAR

:rolleyes:

[NNN0LHI]

7. Really nice ad

[Spazito]

8. Oh my!

That is both brilliant and diabolical, it's perfect!

To use McCain's own words is icing on the cake.

[ProSense]

9. It is.

[sce56]

10. You have to know when to hold them and when to show them this should have been saved for November!