Mitt Romney personally picks up the “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that” canard and runs with it.
McCain says he didn’t pass over Romney for Veep because of anything to do with taxes. It was because “Sarah Palin was the better candidate.”
Benjy Sarlin explains the the whole “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that” canard.
John Sununu in his usual form this morning, going on Fox to say that President Obama “spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something” and separately telling reporters, “I wish this president would learn how to be an American.”
When Romney sends his top surrogate out to go-off about President Obama smoking dope I think that means they haven’t figured out how to deal with the taxes issue yet.
Late last week, President Obama offered a slightly different version of one of his standard stump speech talking points that has since been taken badly out of context by, among others, Fox Business Network’s Stuart Varney, in what has to be a classic of the Fox genre. Take a look.
This new ad from the Obama campaign does not sound like an apology.