Former Republican Party chairman furious over reminders that Mitt Romney was wrong about bin Laden

[ProSense]

Former Republican Party chairman furious over reminders that Mitt Romney was wrong about bin Laden

by Jed Lewison

Like John McCain last week, former Bush aide and current Romney adviser Ed Gillespie is hopping mad that the Obama campaign dared to remind voters that the president was right and Mitt Romney was wrong about Osama bin Laden:

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Gillespie was asked for his reaction to a video clip in which Vice President Joe Biden last week told a campaign audience “Thanks to President Obama, bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. You have to ask yourself: If Gov. Romney had been president, could you have used the same slogan in reverse?”

Gillespie, a former Republican National Committee chairman, responded: “This is one of the reasons President Obama has become one of the most divisive presidents in American history. He took something that was a unifying event for all Americans – an event that Gov. Romney congratulated him and the military and the intelligence analysts in our government for completing the mission in terms of killing Osama bin Laden – and he’s managed to turn it into a divisive partisan political attack.”

There's really nothing in the world that's easier than rebutting this argument. Republicans milked the horror of 9/11 for everything it was worth, not just to win at the ballot box, but also to justify an entirely unrelated war. Meanwhile, the Obama campaign is claiming credit for having brought the guy behind the 9/11 attacks to justice—and pointing to the entirely accurate fact that Mitt Romney severely disagreed with the strategy that brought it about. And unlike Republicans, the Obama campaign isn't turning this into an issue of patriotism, which actually does divide the country: they've raised this as a matter of policy.
But maybe the best response to the howls of outrage from Republicans about "politicizing 9/11" comes from Mitt Romney himself:

Rudy Giuliani will appear at an event with Mitt Romney on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the assault on Osama bin Laden, a campaign aide confirmed to CNN.

Yeah, Mitt Romney is so desperately against politicizing 9/11 ... that he's going to mark the anniversary of bin Laden's death by campaigning alongside Rudy 911iani.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/30/1087543/-Former-Republican-Party-chairman-furious-over-reminders-that-Mitt-Romney-was-wrong-about-bin-Laden

[ZombieHorde]

1. Hahahahaha! nt

[Tx4obama]

2. K&R. And...

How Obama Suckered Romney into His Bin Laden Trap
http://www.politicususa.com/obama-suckered-romney-bin-laden.html

[tammywammy]

3. That's an excellent article!

Thanks for the link!

[Gregorian]

4. Poor Ed Gillespie. And it's not even a negative ad. Boo hooooo.

Obama is really something. And they will never get over that.

[Angry Dragon]

5. Facts always send them into a tizzy

[Bolo Boffin]

6. Ed, Ed, Ed. You didn't answer Joe Biden's question.

But plenty of Americans know the answer: Yes.

[Old and In the Way]

7. Maybe we can make it up to Ed and the Republicans.

Perhaps a special day to commemorate the Disregarding of the PDB on 8/6/12. A video of Bush at the ranch and telling the briefer "OK, you've covered your ass....now let me git back to doing the important stuff...clearing brush on my ranch."

[Skittles]

8. WOOT!!!!!!!

[grasswire]

9. Gillespie is nothing but a cheap hack.

A has-been.

[MrModerate]

10. I've become convinced that the entire Republican Party . . .

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Has been stewing in a bath of faux-resentment for so long that it's now soaked into the Party's genes.

À la Breitbart, 'Licans have convinced themselves that every scrap of political speech that floats by is a frontal assault on their values and must be anihilated with tooth, claw, and flamethrower.

It's both sad and silly at the same time.

And while a permanent-state-of-rolling-resentment may be somewhat effective in whipping up a frenzy among their increasingly inbred and defective base, it just makes them look less and less serious.

An example: 'Licans — who any sane observer will acknowledge are vigorously pushing to roll back a century's worth of social and legal progress for women — nevertheless being Shocked! that they're accused of waging a war on women. And then going out the same day and laying out another set of policies that do exactly that.

I think 'Licans are no longer able to grasp how sensible people might respond to their messages, because they don't run across sensible people in their organization anymore. So everything is either a shriek to the sky or a shout down a well.

Very sad. Very silly. Very depressing. Very dangerous: a two-party system with one political party and one political cult does not make for a stable situation.

[Ikonoklast]

11. Ed Gillespie just realized that he is on the losing side of History.

The Republican Party is in the beginning of a death spiral, and the increasingly insane things disconnected from all reality said by people that are members of that party just point to the desperate situation they find themselves in.

They cannot convince the rest of the electorate with their lies anymore, and they already have the vote of the ignorant and uninformed, the racists and the bigots...unless they can suddenly find or create more of these type of voters, they are doomed as a political party to minority status.

The hysterical tone that has been taken on by their spokespeople, flacks, and shills is starting to fail as the constant barrage of misinformation and breathless pronouncements of things that never seem to come to pass is wearing thin.

Citizen's United was their last desperate attempt to usurp Democracy, and it is now working against them.

Hoist by their own petard.