Since Mitt Romney ‘approved this message’ then we have to assume he saw it. Either he didn’t care or didn’t know that the line attributed to President Obama in his ad, “If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose,” was actually Obama quoting a McCain aide in 2008.
Incredibly, Romney’s campaign is defending the misuse of the line; they’re playing the cheesy numbers game figuring that more people will see the ad than the corrections; it’s Rove plus. This is inexcusable — Romney should pull the ad and run another apologizing to Obama and the voters he attempted to mislead. He won’t do that, which proves what a morally bankrupt, lowlife sleazebag Mitt Romney truly is. I wonder if his competitors for the GOP nomination will bring this up in the next debate?
And here, Think Progress uses the ‘Romney Treatment’ of taking soundbites wildly out of context on Romney himself: