Greg Sargent reports that ÜberTeam Romney has responded to the near universal condemnation (David Brooks is holding out) of its Jeep-to-China Lie by ... what else? ... "expanding the ad campaign."
A Dem source familiar with ad buy info tells me that the Romney campaign has now put a version of the spot on the radio in Toledo, Ohio — the site of a Jeep plant. The buy is roughly $100,000.
That's not really an ad buy. It's more of a confirmation that their own internal polling is showing a devastating, irreversible loss in Ohio.
Not even the ruthless incompetence of the Romney camp would spend $100,000 in the empty hope that the same but Broader Lie will work after the Big Lie did not; it would, however, spend $100,000 just to spit in people's face. Behold--the adolescent personality of the deeply malevolent GOP.
I don't know what radio ads cost, although I do know it is a lot less than television. So I don't know just how much $100,000 will buy.
What I do know is that by doing this, when all Ohio knows it is a lie by this time, will cause him to lose Ohio by enough actual votes that even the GOP can't steal the election.
Interestingly enough, I am pretty confident that as long as Obama wins VA, which I am pretty sure he will, he won't even need Ohio to hit 270.
Posted by: japa21 | October 30, 2012 at 03:14 PM
To go even further on my last comment. With the events of this week, barring some major event, Obama could end up with over 340 EVs.
Posted by: japa21 | October 30, 2012 at 03:15 PM
From your mouth to God's ear.
Posted by: priscianus jr | October 30, 2012 at 03:19 PM
I'm going with over/under 333.
Posted by: W Caulfield | October 30, 2012 at 03:39 PM
At the risk of being cliche',Romney does not seem to understand that this is an election rather than a hostile takeover. Seriously, he applying the modus operandi of the later to the former.
This explains his behavior throughout the process. He was properly capitalized; he had Wall Street's blessing; and he saw a wounded company (country) waiting to be had. Once the game was on, rules were for losers. I can only imagine how the workers in companies that Bain took over must have felt once they saw Romney bare his teeth.
i have been wrong about Romney for a long tine. He is neither moral nor immoral. He is amoral. In other words, he is evil.
Posted by: Robert Lipscomb | October 30, 2012 at 03:43 PM
^ Probably right. The guy has an absolutely tin ear for optics. The way he tried to reap a political windfall from the Benghazi tragedy before we even knew what happened...that (among a few dozen other things) should have been disqualifying. And the way he lies with such smug ease is just chilling. Bush and Cheney lied their asses off about a lot of things and we'll be paying the price for that for decades, but Romney is in a different weight class than even those monsters. Even Bush/Cheney wouldn't confidently lie about something that happened five minutes ago the way Romney has no problem doing.
Posted by: Turgidson | October 30, 2012 at 06:08 PM
Moderate Mitt my ass. Only historical prejudice against certain usages prevents this guy from being universally known as Bullshit Mitt.
Posted by: Peter G | October 30, 2012 at 06:37 PM