Thursday, September 6, 2012

Another Romney ad uses Bill Clinton

Barack Obama is determined to make Bill Clinton an issue in this campaign, and Mitt Romney continues to unwittingly aid and abet in a new ad.

The spot attributes Clinton's increasingly vocal support for Obama as simply "a good soldier helping his party's president", and runs a famous clip of Clinton calling the pro-Obama narrative a "fairytale" in 2008.

By my count, this is the SIXTH time that Romney or an ally has used Bill or Hillary in an ad.

Clearly, they're doing it to set up a contrast between a centrist Democrat and a more liberal one, but if this election veers into a re-litigation of the Clinton years, that's a net loss for Romney.