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DNC attacks Romney-Ryan on Medicare in Tampa with second ad, billboards
For the second day in a row, the Democratic National Committee is attacking Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan with a full-page ad in the Tampa Tribune.
According to the DNC, a full-page ad and two digital billboards now visible in Tampa, Fla., are attacking Romney and Ryan's stance on Medicare.
The theme of Wednesday's attacks is a warning that Romney and his running mate "plan to end Medicare as we know it." The attack comes the day Wisconsin Rep. Ryan plans to address the convention. Romney's campaign has focused more attention on the Medicare issue since Ryan joined the ticket earlier this month, also charging Obama with "raiding" Medicare to pay for healthcare reform.
The billboards — hitting the GOP pair for plans to end "Medicare's guaranteed benefits," turn it "into a voucher plan," and charge "seniors up to $6,400 more" — were chosen for high visibility to RNC guests, with one placed directly across from the convention and the other on the interstate exiting into downtown.
“President Obama has failed to help the middle class over the last three and a half years, and no amount of false attacks from his political machine can distract from his abysmal record," Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg said in response to the DNC ads. "President Obama’s the only candidate in this race who has robbed $716 billion from Medicare to pay for Obamacare, resulting in millions of retirees being punished with changes to their current plans and thousands of hospitals seeing massive funding cuts. A Romney-Ryan administration will reverse these disastrous cuts, ensuring Medicare is protected for today’s seniors and strengthened for future generations.”
The battleground state must be getting used to billboard campaigns by now. Other Democratic billboards have greeted Tampa visitors this week, and earlier this month the Romney campaign greeted a visit by President Obama with 13 billboards that attacked his "you didn’t build that" comments.
"If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen," Obama said in the speech Republicans have said reveals his attitude toward American entrepreneurs. "The point is, when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative but also because we do things together."
Countering Obama's comment to a Virginia crowd last month has become a major theme of the GOP convention this week.
Updated at 11:08 a.m.
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