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Romney campaign says Obama continuing 'shameful dodges' on super-PAC ad
Mitt Romney's team is hoping to keep pressure on President Obama over a controversial super-PAC ad that links the Republican presidential hopeful to the death of a cancer patient, issuing a statement Monday blasting the president's reelection campaign.
“It’s been a week since President Obama’s Super PAC unveiled its disgraceful attack on Mitt Romney — and the President is still nowhere to be found," said Romney spokesman Ryan Williams in the statement. "After repeatedly raising money for the organization, President Obama’s advisers won’t condemn the ad, and they won’t even admit the people running the Super PAC are Democrats. Americans deserve better from their president than shameful dodges and unanswered questions.”
On Monday, Obama adviser Robert Gibbs reiterated previous statements by the Obama campaign and White House noting that the president cannot legally coordinate with the super-PAC under federal election law.
Pressed by host Chuck Todd as to whether the Obama campaign should call for the ad to come down — as they urged John Edwards to do during the 2008 Democratic primary when an outside group ran an ad attacking then-Illinois Sen. Obama — Gibbs said he didn't remember that incident.
The controversial ad features a steelworker who used to work for a company that was taken over by Bain Capital, the investment firm formerly headed by Mitt Romney. The worker lost his job and health insurance, and the ad insinuates a link between that and his wife's subsequent death from cancer.
Independent fact-checkers have noted, however, that the cancer patient featured in the ad died six years after Bain bought her husband's company, that she had her own health insurance through her employer and that Romney was not in charge of the investment firm when her husband was let go.
The ad has still not been broadcast, and Priorities USA has been coy about when or if the commercial will actually air. But the group has pointed out that of the more than half a million online views of the ad, four of the top five states where people have viewed it are swing states.
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