Right Change: Obama Team Still Defending Their Super PAC Ad

We knew that the day the Obama camp declared their main objective was to “destroy Romney,” that this campaign was going to get ugly. You can always count on our House Minority leader to say something offensive, or some delusive accusation from our Senate majority leader. But the latest move from Obama’s super PAC, Priorities USA, takes this campaign to a new level of deplorable.

In their latest attack ad, Priorities USA claims that Mitt Romney is responsible for the death of a steelworker’s wife from cancer after Bain Capital shut down the plant he worked for. Even Democrats called this attack ad “disgusting” and fact checking websites said it was completely false. Mitt Romney wasn’t even with Bain Capital at the time of the firing. Regardless of that, this ad was deplorable and took Obama’s campaign to a new low.  Obama’s team denied involvement and knowledge of this ad even though they were caught having conference calls doing prep work around the ad – also bringing Obama’s campaign to a lower low.

One would think with all of that negative backlash, Obama or someone from his team would personally stand against an ad for basically calling another candidate a murder. Instead, they defended it:

“ANDREA MITCHELL, MSNBC: What about the fact that Mitt Romney left Bain Capital before this woman ended up being fired? She had other health insurance; there was a gap between when she was fired and when she was diagnosed. There are just so many flaws in the premise of that ad. 



BILL BURTON, PRIORITIES USA: No. There's not one fact in that ad that is wrong. I would challenge you to find one. All the facts in that ad are absolutely accurate. When that company went bankrupt, Mitt Romney was the Chairman, CEO, and sole shareholder of Bain. And yeah, I think most Americans would agree that you own the responsibility for what your company is doing if you're the CEO. 

There were real-life consequences when all these people lost their jobs, when their health insurance got canceled, when they lost their pension benefits. And some of these stories are really sad, but that doesn't mean that they should be off-limits. This is a race about very big things; about what direction our country is going to go in. And so we thought... Ok, Mitt Romney wants to make his business experience the center of his campaign, we are happy to take him up on that.”

It seems like Burton needs a little lesson in economics. Sometimes, when a business is not making a profit, it has to be shutdown. That opens up opportunities for new business and thus, opportunities for new jobs. That doesn’t make the owner evil. In fact, Joe Soptic, the steelworker accusing Romney of killing his wife, was offered a buyout before the plant closed.

As Ace of Spades points out, Bain Capitol shouldn’t be linked to this woman’s death at all. Check out this timeline:

“Mitt Romney left Bain in 1999 to work on Olympics.

GST Steel in Kansas City was shut down in 2001.

Top Obama bundler Jonathan Lavine was in charge of Bain Capital at the time.


Soptic was offered a buy-out.


Soptic took another job but declined to purchase their insurance plan.


Soptic’s wife had her own health insurance plan through 2003.

In 2006, Soptic’s wife was diagnosed — diagnosed! — with very late-stage cancer.

She died 22 days after diagnosis.


The pro-Obama PAC Priorities USA cuts an ad blaming Romney for her death.”

Paul Ryan better watch out, Obama will be coming with some below-the-belt hits.

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