Conservative
Type 40
RealClearPolitics - Some Dems Fretting Over Team Obama's Ineptitude
President Obama cannot risk an election that becomes a referendum on his record. Fairly or not, that's a framework for defeat. So the task of his handlers is to make the election a referendum on his opponent.
On the very day that the ad was released [The Bain/Romney ad], President Obama attended a fund-raiser in New York City hosted by a senior executive at the Blackstone Group, a leading private equity firm and frequent co-investor with Bain Capital on turn-around projects.
And, it further turns out that a 2008 and 2012 campaign finance bundler for President Obama, one Jonathan Lavine, was a managing director at Bain Capital during the time that GST Steel was being run into the ground by the evil Bainiacs.
It makes you wonder. Did Team Obama think that no one would notice? Did they assume that only right-wing bloggers would care?
The mishandling of the Presidents endorsement of same sex marriage sent the president's re-election prospects into a tailspin; electoral college handicappers busily moved North Carolina from toss-up to likely Republican. And it necessitated todays "let's-get-the-media-talking-about-something-else news event (the Bain attack ad).
Because we have been told for so long that Team Obama is the very model of the modern campaign operation, we have come to sort of believe it. In reality, theyve been surprisingly inept since they set up shop last year. They've been through three slogans and four over-arching re-election "themes." They've made a big deal out of Romney's dog. They've introduced us to "Julia," which seemed like a right-wing parody of the perfect constituent of the nanny state. One could on (and on).