So... Romney runs a completely false, even despicable ad, trying to scare voters in Ohio. Common sense tells everyone that he went too far, pissed off Ohioans, and he's going to pay for it. Instead, the latest poll has him gaining- down only 2%.
Imagine if Obama did such a thing? Told a complete lie? I made a strong concerted effort in my book not to do the "imagine if Obama had done this..." thing. I had my reasons. However, this ad would definitely be game changing if Obama had done this.
They could not have done a worse ad- where it could be so quickly and so easily be proven to be false. Then why did they do it? We know these people are smarter than that. Are they so certain that the voters are dumber than we ever imagined? Or that hearing the words, "shipping jobs to China," are so effective that the unprecedented responses from the heads of GM and Chrysler would be useless? There is something strange about them doing this ad. If they win Ohio after this ad, America is going to have to do some stronger soul searching than most of us previously thought it should do after this election.