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Related: About this forumRomney adviser dismisses auto rescue as 'one-trick pony'
Here's how Mitt Romney's political director, Rich Beeson, describes the auto bailout as a campaign issue in Ohio:
Theyve dropped the auto bailout on us, but ... theres only so long you can ride that one-trick pony, and they just kept pounding away at it, and so thats baked in right now and were tied.
That one trick sure saved and created a lot of jobs, though, didn't it? And if the auto rescue is so easily dismissed as a one-trick pony when the political director is talking to ultimate Beltway pundit Mike Allen, then why is Mitt Romney himself bothering to fear-monger to Ohio audiences about Chrysler sending jobs to China?
When you consider the different audiences for these two different messages, it starts to look a little like the Romney campaign is trying to convince the punditocracy it's in a better swing-state position than it is, while grappling with the real truth of how much trouble it's in when appearing in front of actual voters. And, as Greg Sargent points out, this dismissal of the bailout as a political, not policy, issue shows yet again what a problem it is for the Romney campaign that Mitt was so terribly wrong on this issue.
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Romney adviser dismisses auto rescue as 'one-trick pony' (Original Post)
DonViejo
Oct 2012
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sendero
(28,552 posts)1. Better a one trick pony..
.... than a zero trick bonehead.
imanamerican63
(13,813 posts)2. So true!!!!!!
The Romney plan is to trick everyone into making him more money, even when he looses the election, he will have made money! Something is very wrong with this one trick ass!
speedoo
(11,229 posts)3. Idiotic member of the worst campaign in a very long time.
Bunch of tools.
ashling
(25,771 posts)4. Maybe, but
it was one hell of a trick!
Maximumnegro
(1,134 posts)5. LOL. That's loser talk. STILL tied huh
They were 'tied' last week and 'winning' the week before that.
This is really going to be fun watching them go down in flames.