Dems Hit Romney On Auto Bailout Opposition In New Ad

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"Hit The Road Mitt"

Using his own words opposing bailouts of American auto companies against him, Democrats targeted Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in a new Web ad this week.

Romney, who is among the leading candidates for the GOP presidential nomination next year, wrote a widely read op-ed in the New York Times in the fall of 2008 in opposition to the federal government assisting General Motors and Chrysler, which companies were on the verge of bankruptcy at the time. The article was titled “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.”

The Democratic ad, which targets voters in Michigan, released this week repeatedly uses a clip of Romney in an interview saying the same words used in the title.

"You wouldn't know he was from around here," the ad says of Romney, whose father, George Romney, is not only a former Michigan governor, but was also the CEO of American Motors, which he helped turn around in the 1950s and early 1960s.

"This city, where American rubber meets the road," the ad continues. "A town that's been to hell and back. So what was his answer for Detroit?," the ad asks before Romney's voice answers with the title of his 2008 article. (“Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.”)

"Now he's coming back, again for our votes," the narrator continues as clips of downtown Detroit are shown. "So what do you say to a man who would have put this city on cement blocks, kicking us when we were down? You say hit the road, Mitt."


read: http://thehill.com/blogs/transportation-report/automobiles/192387-dems-hit-romney-on-auto-bailout-opposition-in-new-ad

watch ad: http://www.democrats.org/news/blog/hit_the_road_mitt

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1. Great ad

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