Romney, Ricketts, And The Right

In what I can only attribute to excellent reporting by the NY Times, a plan to re litigate President Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright, among other things, was thwarted when the Republican proposal was made public. The add was the brain child of Fred Davis a Los Angeles-based strategist who is known as "Hollywood Fred" among his friends and colleagues and has been credited with coming up with some of the most creative and downright bizarre political ads in recent campaigns. His latest offering was to be financed by Chicago Cubs owner, an T.D. Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts. ( Another Wall Street billionaire working behind the scenes for Romney, what a shocker.)

The proposal which Republicans, including Romney now repudiate, has been suggested as an after thought that had no real consideration. Really? Lets look at the facts. The proposal created by Davis called, The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama - The Ricketts Plan to End His Spending for Good. was a 54 page after thought that included plans to spend millions on inflammatory TV ads using everything from Rev. Jeremiah Wright to images of the September 11th attacks to show the truth about Obama's alleged secret plan to destroy America.

In response to the proposal Obama campaign manager Jim Messina pointed out in the words of one of these guys, they want to "do exactly what John McCain would not let us do" in the last election. and the plan was to be financed by a single billionaire. Of course once the plan was uncovered, Romney, Ricketts, and Davis ran for cover. Dan Baker head of the super PAC Ending Spending Action Fund, which was going to promote the Ricketts proposal was indignant, “We run an organization based on fiscal responsibility. They know we asked for a document based on ending spending, fiscal responsibility and jobs in the economy. This is far afield from that.”  Baker said it was “deeply troubling and unfair” for their organization – and Ricketts, who funds the super PAC – to be associated with the proposal, since they had never approved anything in it, and didn’t commission such a proposal. “The world is full of bad ideas. This is one of them,” the super PAC president said. “This wasn’t a proposal we requested at all. We never funded it.”

The fact of the matter is, off the cuff proposals don't get 54 page color presentations created for the review of the man who is going to foot the bill. Clearly this is just another example of the depths to which Mitt Romney will stoop to become President. It is a classic behind the scenes snap shot that was stopped before it could be put in motion. This is the post "Citizens United" political system in which we operate. A system where a choice few can spend unlimited funds hidden in the undisclosed shadows behind the curtain of a super PAC.

So Romney and the rest of his cronies cry repudiation, like a murderer who gets caught and says he's sorry. Then in classic Romney form claims the President is running a campaign of "character assassination",this is a bigger disconnect than him claiming credit for the auto bailout! Are you kidding me? He became the Republican nominee during the primaries by carpet bombing his opponents into submission with over $30 million dollars of ads that (you guessed it!) were pure character assassination. It's no wonder this man won't talk to anybody but FOX, how many sides of his mouth can Romney talk out of? It's much more than what it takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop I promise you. Romney is a shifty political chameleon funded by an American plutocracy designed to keep them rich, and rest of us content with the status quo. He is so out of touch with the majority of Americans, yet he stays competitive in the polls? Which only goes to show you that outright hate for one man, will make you vote for any boob just because he's the other choice available. It is madness on a national scale, and yet another indictment of who really runs America.