New Republican slogan, translated: 'Please forget about Bush'

[ProSense]

New Republican slogan, translated: 'Please forget about Bush'

by Jed Lewison

So Republicans are unveiling a new anti-Obama slogan, and boy oh boy, is it ever a clunker:

The Republican National Committee, in conjunction with Mitt Romney's campaign, on Thursday unveiled a new slogan ahead of President Obama’s official campaign kick-off in Ohio and Virginia this weekend: "Hype and Blame 2012."

The message plays off the hope and change mantra of Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and centers on what Republicans perceive as the president’s chronic inability to keep his promises.

“The candidate of hope and change has become the president of hype and blame,” said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus in a conference call with reporters. “He blames everyone and everything other than the man in the mirror. “

To anyone with a halfway-decent memory, the slogan is an obvious attempt to attack Obama on the two areas where Republicans are weakest: the fact that they failed to take out Osama bin Laden and the fact that they presided over the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression.

They want Americans to think it's nothing but "hype" when President Obama's campaign reminds voters that he was right and Mitt Romney was wrong about how to get bin Laden, and they want Americans to think it's nothing but the "blame game" when President Obama's campaign reminds voters that he inherited a devastating recession from the Bush administration. But when the Obama campaign points out those facts, it isn't just hype, and it isn't just blame: it's reality.

The truth is that we're still recovering from the most devastating presidency in modern American history. You cannot talk about where we are now without thinking about where we were just three years ago. We haven't yet fully recovered, but America is in better shape today than it was when after Bush left office and things are going to keep on getting better. And pointing that out isn't finger pointing: it's making the case for continuing to move forward.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/03/1088474/-New-Republican-slogan-translated-Please-forget-about-Bush-

"We're Not Stupid" wasn't bad enough.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002639841

[Scuba]

1. Why don't they just cut through all the bullshit...

... and go with "Not the Black Guy"???

[Rex]

2. Awww sad little GOpers so transparent

it is almost painful to watch. Just more obvious projection that everyone and their dog sees for what it is.

Just more votes going for the POTUS in the longrun. Keep it up Mittens!

[ProSense]

3. After Romney

tried to take credit for the auto bailout, it became clear that Republicans are extremely desperate.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002622596

[Rex]

4. Oh now that is just sad sad sad...

Why do they think Americans are so stupid? Do they actually buy into the idea of 'sheeple' I wonder?

[wandy]

5. Just honestly proclaiming the only things republicans have to offer. n/t

[Scurrilous]

6. K & R

[butterfly77]

7. He was on Piers Morgan..

tonight with some wounded soldiers as a reminder that he started the wars.

I guess this is his way to take credit for the killing of Osama.