Gary Pearce posted on June 06, 2012 08:35
Bill Clinton last week became the third big-name Democrat – after Ed Rendell and Cory Booker – to question attacking Mitt Romney’s Bain record.
Some North Carolina Democrats are similarly skittish about the ads attacking Pat McCrory’s record.
Now, we love Big Dog Bill. But he always seems to find inconvenient times to undermine the President who defeated Hillary. And you have to realize that a lot of Bill’s friends, golf partners and benefactors today are precisely the kind of vulture capitalists that Romney was. Same with Booker and Rendell, I suspect.
I seriously doubt that the Bill Clinton of 1992 and 1996 would have hesitated a minute to eviscerate, if you will, Romney’s Bain record.
Ted Kennedy did it to Romney in their Senate race, and Romney lost.
Also at work here is the unique, mystifying habit Democrats have of getting squeamish when their candidates go on the attack.
Let’s get real here. And get over it.
Do you see any Republicans wringing their hands over the Crossroads GPS attack ads?
Romney and McCrory are ripe for the plucking. They’re relatively new on the scene, and they need to be vetted in the uniquely American political way of vetting-through-negative ads.
Yes, Democrats must do more than that. Obama will have to offer a prescription for the nation’s economic ills. Dalton will have to give us more vision than “great schools and great jobs.”
But a few million dollars spent introducing voters to the truth about the other guy is as American as apple pie. Serve it up.