Pro-Obama group targets Mitt Romney in Medicare ad

[TomCADem]

Source: USA Today

Republican Mitt Romney is the target of the first presidential campaign ad launched by a Democratic group with strong ties to President Obama, stressing the GOP's stance on revamping Medicare.

Priorities USA Action, headed by former Obama press aide Bill Burton and Clinton strategist Paul Begala, will be running the spot on TV in South Carolina as Romney, a top contender for the GOP nomination, makes his first campaign swing this weekend in the key presidential state. Romney's campaign denounced the ad as a "smear campaign."

Medicare is already emerging as a hot topic of the 2012 election season, as Democrats try to link GOP candidates from the White House to Congress to a plan by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan to convert the popular health insurance program for seniors into a voucher system.

The ad seeks to tie Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, with presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, who has been backpedaling this week from his remarks that Ryan's Medicare plan is "radical" and "right-wing social engineering." It also mentions Ryan and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who criticized Gingrich for undermining Ryan with his Medicare remarks.


Read more: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/05/mitt-romney-medicare-ad-south-carolina-/1

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Amazing! Romney denounces the ad as a "smear campaign," but does not confirm or deny whether Romney supports the Ryan voucher plan. Instead, the corporate media allows Romney to skate on by with comments like he supports the goals of the Ryan plan. Of course, as Roger Ailes' annointed, Fox News will give him a free pass.

[SoapBox]

1. The Dems need to make the Thugs stick like glue to the RyanDeath plan...

Label them...Staple them...and make them explain to hundreds of millions of Americans why they want to end Medicare and create VoucherCare.

Vote Seniors...VOTE!

[TomCADem]

5. If this was a Republican Ad, Fox News Would Play It For Free On Endless Loop...

...and call the viewings a critique. Remember the McCain commercials? Entire segments of Hannity would be devoted to reviews of McCain's commercials. This is why the playing field is not even and why folks on the left need to work that much harder to defeat Republicans.

[hughee99]

6. If this was a republican ad, the discussion here would be about

how this group can collect unlimited amounts of money from corporations and undisclosed donors.

[SoapBox]

2. p.s....list of Thugs that have favored an insurance mandate.

Sort of OT:

"Which Republicans Favored a Health Insurance Mandate...Here's a List"

http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/05/29/which-republicans-favored-a-health-insurance-mandate-heres-a-list/

[groundloop]

3. tee hee hee...... this is going to be interesting.

I'd have thought if anyone wanted to discredit Romney for the publican primaries they'd just make sure everyone knew about his healthcare plan in Mass. But I'm sure there's more to this than meets the eye, Paul Ryan has handed us a huge opportunity to not only hold the senate but to take back the house. Medicare is a viable, working healthcare plan and the publicans want to kill it.

[RBInMaine]

4. Call it VOUCHER-CARE at every opportunity.