November 23, 2011 09:29 PM UTC

What's "Fair Game" For Romney...

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• by: Colorado Pols

The Colorado Independent’s Scot Kersgaard:

“if we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.”

With those words, Mitt Romney launches an ad campaign against President Obama. In the already famous ad, Romney uses video of Obama saying “if we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.”

What the ad doesn’t tell you is that when Obama said those words he was quoting the John McCain campaign. Romney’s camp says there is nothing unfair about the ad…

We don’t really follow the logic by which using footage of your opponent quoting an opponent, with no context, is in any way “fair.” And we don’t buy the implication from this story that such things are fully expected by the voting public and not a big deal–just as one example, look at the damage the charges of misleading campaign ads did in the recent Denver mayoral race. If Romney’s already-problematic public image as a flip-flopper is weighed down with incidents of straight-up deception in his campaign ads, that’s not going to help people learn to trust him.

To wit, Kersgaard suggests an hilarious rejoinder from Think Progress (follows). Also a poll.

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