I am on record as supporting attack ads. I have no problem with Down and Dirty politics...regardless of their perceived 'relevance' to the Presidency. IF THE ACCUSATIONS ARE TRUE. If a candidate slept with their nanny (or their pool boy)...I have no problem with the opposition exploiting the character flaw and I feel the public should know that. But to blatantly make up things? Too far. Even for someone like me that is normally amused by the mudslinging....
Romney no longer in charge of day-to-day decisions at Bain by the time the steel plant closed down.
The man’s wife – his name is Joe Soptic, hers was Ranae – actually died in 2006, nearly five years after the original layoff.
The former steelworker acknowledged that his wife had actually continued to have insurance of her own after he was laid off, and only lost her coverage more than a year later, when she left her own job because of an injury.
"What the ad had portrayed as cause-and-effect — Romney closed Joe Soptic’s plant, Ranae Soptic died — was a tenuous-to-nonexistent connection." (Fact Checking is Not Enough, NYT)
The Left's response? Whining that some Conservatives are calling him "Joe Septic?!"
No comments:
Post a Comment