Video: Mitt Romney’s “Pride of America” ad
posted at 3:54 pm on January 11, 2008 by Bryan
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This is a well-crafted ad that would be perfect for a run at the Michigan governor’s mansion. It would strike fear into Gov. Granholm’s tax-raising heart. Is it enough to blunt Huckabee’s Michigan strategy that, ahem, I saw coming before anyone else?
Mitt Romney did pick up a couple of key endorsements today, from the Grand Rapids Press and the Oakland Press. Romney has left South Carolina to campaign full-time round-the-clock in Michigan for the Tuesday primary, which is a return to the beginning in more ways than one: It’s not only a home state and the state where his father was governor, it’s where Mitt launched his own run for the presidency. And it’s a state in which he now needs to win. Daniel Gross steals a base or two on the way to saying that Mitt might have a hard time in Michigan.
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I sure hope he gets a win in Michigan.
OKCubsFan on January 11, 2008 at 3:56 PM
Go Mitt!!
CABE on January 11, 2008 at 3:56 PM
Not bad at all.
KBird on January 11, 2008 at 4:00 PM
He took off ths suit but the ad still looks like something designed by a corporation
bnelson44 on January 11, 2008 at 4:05 PM
Gosh, I can’t imagine why Huck always gets the religion questions in debates.
Cart before horse?
As for that article assessing his chances as gloomy, there ain’t no way Mitt is going to change his free-market views.
Buy Danish on January 11, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Personally hopes Romney stays to the end; Not particularly fond of a few states deciding who I get to vote for in the next presidential election by simply holding their electoral process early.
MarkB on January 11, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Very nice ad!
davenp35 on January 11, 2008 at 4:08 PM
I never trust an candidate that uses the word “pride” as part of their slogan. “Pride” is not a virtue.
Maxx on January 11, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Has everyone seen this and this?
davenp35 on January 11, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Great ad. This is a great ad.
Detroit used to define Americana. Way to tap into that. I think this and Rudy’s jihad ad are the two best of the year so far.
Spirit of 1776 on January 11, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Looks like the DailyKos is urging Dem. voters in SC to vote for Mitt to stir things up…
heatherrc77 on January 11, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Better than any other ad in political history. And anyone who thinks otherwise can not be trusted as an analyst.
amerpundit on January 11, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Nor should he. That, along with the Arab-Muslim smear, is among the bases that Gross steals imo.
Bryan on January 11, 2008 at 4:11 PM
If he doesn’t win the nomination, he could run for Governor of Michigan.
SoulGlo on January 11, 2008 at 4:11 PM
Maybe he should get himself some Obama girl flava?
Why do you resent corporations and wealth so much?
Rush did a great monologue on this today. He said that there has never been a CEO, or a big corporation who did anything to hurt him, but government with its confiscatory taxes, rules which tell him what lightbulbs he can use, what car to drive, and so forth can, and have, inflicted a lot of pain.
Buy Danish on January 11, 2008 at 4:14 PM
If Gerald Ford were still alive I bet he would have endorsed Romney by now.
MB4 on January 11, 2008 at 4:17 PM
I don’t but he is running in Mich and they are in the middle of a recession that is largely blaimed on mismanagement by CEOs
bnelson44 on January 11, 2008 at 4:19 PM
Of course Juan Strawberries McVain looks like something designed by a mental hospital as an exhibit for it’s interns..
MB4 on January 11, 2008 at 4:20 PM
The ad is total nothing. It says he will work hard. That is what George Bush said in 2004 and you see what that has got us? Pres Bush has done a good job in Iraq, pretty good in Aghanistan, but he has totally surrendered to the palestinian arab terrorists Fatah and Hamas, he has left the US borders wide open, he put Condi “Neville Chamberlain” Rice at state, he has totally failed in North Korea, he has totally failed in stopping Iran from getting the bomb, the initial tax cuts were good work, but he has done nothing else for the economy, well he has done great things for the economy of Saudi and Kuwait and UAE and Russia and Nigeria…
And why discuss this here: Because Mitt is another George Bush. Silver spoon boy who has no idea about what the average American needs to do to make a living and who will go with the big international corporate interests that support the Saudis etc, just like Pres Bush. Mitt would be better that any of the Dems, but that is not saying much.
We need a real problem solver who knows what it is like to live as a regular person; someone that will not back down to the Islamists and someone who will force the Dems to do at least some of what is right: We need Rudy!!!
georgealbert on January 11, 2008 at 4:23 PM
That was a smear, and I don’t see what the practical result would be in a primary anyway.
Does he think Huck is going to get their vote, especially after his “gates of hell” comment last night? How about McCain?
Won’t those voters go for Obama (if we are even to believe that they are so offended in the first place)?
Buy Danish on January 11, 2008 at 4:23 PM
You have just eliminated the entire field.
MB4 on January 11, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Please tell me you’re actually a liberal, because conservatives don’t engage in class warfare crap like that.
davenp35 on January 11, 2008 at 4:28 PM
You have just eliminated the entire field.
MB4 on January 11, 2008 at 4:26 PM
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Well, good point MB4. It is a shame too.
georgealbert on January 11, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Buy Danish on January 11, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Excellent comment. Thank you. It can’t be said enough. Class warfare can destroy America, just like PC does.
Entelechy on January 11, 2008 at 4:32 PM
Here is a lesson for the class warfare people pretending to be conservatives.
Franklin Pierce Adams
csdeven on January 11, 2008 at 4:32 PM
Hey csdeven, are we on the same frequency?
Entelechy on January 11, 2008 at 4:33 PM
MB4, can you mince words a bit? Nah, please don’t :)
Entelechy on January 11, 2008 at 4:36 PM
Irrelevant. We need a president who will enforce the laws impartially, according tho their intent, regardless of one’s background.
Nosferightu on January 11, 2008 at 4:40 PM
Sorry, I must have confused you with some of the class-envy types who loathe Mitt because, in their view, he’s a spoiled rich kid and if not for his privileged background, blah blah blah.
I know that Michigan is in a recession, but how are CEO’s responsible? Doesn’t it have more to do with not being able to compete with the Asian Tiger? And let’s not forget that CEOs like Henry Ford and George Romney did great things for the Michigan economy.
I have been stunned to see how many so called “conservatives” right here at Hot Air fall into this class envy trap.
Buy Danish on January 11, 2008 at 4:40 PM
Elect me!!!
I am the only man of the peoples.
I was born in a log cabin that I built with my own hands!
MB4 on January 11, 2008 at 4:45 PM
I would in a heartbeat, but I’m a littly nutty, like you are :) That “log cabin” statement is precious :)
Entelechy on January 11, 2008 at 4:47 PM
You’re absolutely right that PC and class envy are dangerous - it’s like a cancer from within.
Ironically Huck has the one proposal (the Fair Tax) that would go along way to eliminate the class warfare problem, since it would get rid of the Progressive Income tax which pits one group against the other, yet Huck is the one candidate playing that envy game to the hilt.
Buy Danish on January 11, 2008 at 4:47 PM
…that would go [a long] way.
Dang that temporary blindness problem I’m afflicted with! :-)
Buy Danish on January 11, 2008 at 4:49 PM
BD, he doeasn’t even get the dychotomy. Besides, ideal as the Fair Tax sounds, it’ll never pass. Also, eliminating taxes won’t work, because they invariably (see Europe, Canada and Australia) introduce a GSD tax, and keep the old one, then ending up with both. The sheeple see too late…
Hey, on Capitalism I want your cover!
Entelechy on January 11, 2008 at 4:51 PM
I know why the leftards want to bury Mitt but I am confused as to why even the right wing pundits and bloggers are constantly going on about how Mitt, Fred or Rudy are finished.
We are going to let McCain or Huckabee get the nomination even though hardly any REAL Republicans have had their say. Either one of these two would be a disaster. What gives?
echosyst on January 11, 2008 at 4:52 PM
You need to see a doctor :)
Entelechy on January 11, 2008 at 4:52 PM
Blindness here too - s/b GST (goods and services tax)
Entelechy on January 11, 2008 at 4:55 PM
Charlotte Taylor Wilson: I’m Charlotte Taylor Wilson. I’m with the People’s Independence Committee.
Don Diego: Don Diego Vega. I’m with the greedy bloodsuckers.
MB4 on January 11, 2008 at 4:55 PM
One can be for both.
Entelechy on January 11, 2008 at 4:57 PM
We don’t need a successful businessman as president. What the country needs now is a
goodlawyer!Nosferightu on January 11, 2008 at 4:58 PM
An extreme form of chronic abused wife syndrome.
Probably some form of acute Stockholm syndrome thrown in too.
MB4 on January 11, 2008 at 4:59 PM
How are the Buckeyes going to take this?
Wise Golden on January 11, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Rush thinks that the MSM are spinning it that way to knock our best candidates out. I don’t know if that’s the reason or that they are clueless pundits who don’t know what they’re talking about. This is a very different election and does not fit prior molds.
Boo Hoo. If only we had HillaryCare we could afford to see a doctor. Woe is us.
Buy Danish on January 11, 2008 at 5:01 PM
The Good News is that Edwards “class Warfare’ message is dead in the Democratic party. The bad news is that its alive in the republican party.
Unfortunately a Mitt vs Huck matchup is what Huck wants. He can engage in the “poor mothers” routine in responce to Mitt’s corporate stance and he can play the “Im an evangelical to Mitt’s morman beliefs.
Im sorry but Mitt is the guy the huckelberry round wants to face.
William Amos on January 11, 2008 at 5:03 PM
For all the talk of disenfranchisement over the last few elections, the caucus system in several of these states seems to be the most corrupting, anti-democratic influence on the process that there is.
People should only be able to vote within their declared party, and all on one day or by absentee ballot. I think local government is great, but if the federal government should be allowed to standardize anything, it ought to be the national election process.
Nosferightu on January 11, 2008 at 5:05 PM
Mitt has the advantage, or disadvantage, of having a law and business degree.
And you better keep that lawyer theory quiet or I envision Huck using that against Fred with push-polls:
Would the fact that a candidate was a shyster lawyer affect your opinion of them?
Buy Danish on January 11, 2008 at 5:08 PM
Why is the leading candidate with most delegates in a must win situation?
Beacause the msm says so and conservative pundits want to be part of the gang.
peacenprosperity on January 11, 2008 at 5:13 PM
What conservative pundits would that be? Not El Rushbo, that’s for sure. Brit Hume?
Buy Danish on January 11, 2008 at 5:15 PM
It’s sad, but both parties are suffering a huge psychosis, really. They’re both due for a national couch.
Entelechy on January 11, 2008 at 5:18 PM
Because you have to take your strong-hold states to make up for the areas that you are weak in. Mitt is weak in the South and he’ll need all of those delegates in the Mid-west to get him to 1231.
Wise Golden on January 11, 2008 at 5:20 PM
Well, Huck is the shyster and Fred is the lawyer.
But your point is well taken.
Nosferightu on January 11, 2008 at 5:24 PM
Everyone who trumpets the msm line that the candidate leading in delegates and with the most consistent percentage of support is in a win or get out situation.
I live in Florida and I’m being told that if Romney doesn’t win michigan, a state that has consistently elected the losers that have caused it’s economic collapse, I should not have the opportunity to vote for Romney. That’s a ludicrous statement and it’s being made by journalists and the hired guns of the other candidates and trumpeted by conservative pundits. So much for a representative republic. Might as well let the northern states and californis elect our national leadeers from here on out. And by the way, Fredheads, if they succeed with Romney all their efforts will be on Fred.
peacenprosperity on January 11, 2008 at 5:26 PM
But 40% of Americans in the richest nation on Earth with the worst economy in 8 years are without psychotherapy benefits.
Nosferightu on January 11, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Says who? His support has been constant across the board.
peacenprosperity on January 11, 2008 at 5:27 PM
By the way, more independants voted on the republican side in iowa and new hampshire then actual republicans. Every “independent” I’ve ever met was more of a raving liberal then any declared democrat I know. When you call a nut job a democrat they whip out the voter registration card that says independent but you can bet the house they have never voted for a republican.
peacenprosperity on January 11, 2008 at 5:30 PM
…that’s proof why it’s still the greatest nation on Earth, even if you’re joking.
Your ponts were just proven, again.
Entelechy on January 11, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Points, that s/b…
Entelechy on January 11, 2008 at 5:31 PM
That’s true. Most independents want something from the government. Very few want to just be left alone.
Nosferightu on January 11, 2008 at 5:32 PM
Iowas economic base is farming but the “family farm” has been a myth for over 100 years. new hampshire is full of people who have moved there in the last 20 years from new york and connecticut and michigan is a union state that elects one lousy democrat administration after another and can only blame itself for it’s economic troubles.
these are the states that will choose who goes up against the demofascists?
peacenprosperity on January 11, 2008 at 5:36 PM
Mitt’s gotten so good at coming in 2nd, he’d be perfect for the #2 spot!
Thompson/Romney 08
sleepy-beans on January 11, 2008 at 5:42 PM
I’m with Mitt!
madmonkphotog on January 11, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Too bad Fred’s gotten so good at coming in technical 3rd or dead last. Fred for Speaker of the House/Nobody!
BKennedy on January 11, 2008 at 6:11 PM
I made a Mitt ad that I think is better than this. THIS ad talks about how MItt can bring back INDUSTRY to Detroit!! Seriously :)
Go fred.
spacekicker on January 11, 2008 at 6:22 PM
and before I get slashed for having a good chuckle at the Governors expense. I think Mitt is my second choice ( I waver…much like…hehe) But he’s just kinda mechanical
spacekicker on January 11, 2008 at 6:24 PM
YAWN. Your ad sucks, dude. Don’t give up the day job. It’s like trying to make a hit single with a really long intro and no hook.
Buy Danish on January 11, 2008 at 6:42 PM
awww come on it’s not that bad…is it *sniff*
spacekicker on January 11, 2008 at 6:59 PM
He should win Michigan, and he should stay in the race at least until SuperDuper Tuesday if he doesn’t.
SouthernGent on January 11, 2008 at 7:03 PM
Nice ad.
What a great brawl the primary will be.
Mojave Mark on January 11, 2008 at 7:12 PM
Oh yes it is. Try cutting the
intro3/4 of the ad. We get the point that it’s about a robot.Buy Danish on January 11, 2008 at 7:18 PM
On some things deary.
csdeven on January 11, 2008 at 8:01 PM
Oh, darling, you missed my point - you and I had posted concurrently on the “class warfare” :) You’re still my buddy,
Entelechy on January 11, 2008 at 8:16 PM
No, I got it. It’s happened before.
csdeven on January 11, 2008 at 8:27 PM
GREAT AD!!! GO Mitt, now he’s starting to get it.
JustTruth101 on January 11, 2008 at 9:17 PM
http://www.redstate.com/blogs/mark_i/2008/jan/11/romney_in_seven_words
Chakra Hammer on January 12, 2008 at 1:55 AM
Mitt in Seven Words
Chakra Hammer on January 12, 2008 at 1:56 AM
Make all the Promises that you have to?
Sheesh..
Chakra Hammer on January 12, 2008 at 1:57 AM
Yuck! Is that all he has?
Tzetzes on January 12, 2008 at 3:19 PM