In another odd reversal of deflection Mitt Romney called President Obama "an intellectually exhausted leader," who is "angry and desperate," according to NBC's Garret Haake. Garret Haake.
CHILLICOTHE, OH – Mitt Romney used the final rally on his five-state bus tour to paint President Obama as an "intellectually exhausted" leader, forced to resort to "angry and desperate" tactics in his battle for re-election.
"This is an election in which we should be talking about the path ahead, but you don't hear any answers coming from President Obama’s re-election campaign,” Romney said. “That’s because he's intellectually exhausted, out of ideas, and out of energy. And so his campaign has resorted to diversions and distractions, to demagoguing and defaming others. It’s an old game in politics; what’s different this year is that the president is taking things to a new low."
"This is what an angry and desperate presidency looks like," Romney said. "President Obama knows better, promised better and America deserves better."
"Over the last four years, this president has pushed Republicans and Democrats about as far apart as they can go,” Romney continued. “And now he and his allies are pushing us all even further apart by dividing us into groups. He demonizes some. He panders to others. His campaign strategy is to smash America apart and then try to cobble together 51 percent of the pieces."
The campaigns have been trading barbs all day long over who is out to destroy Medicare, the Iowa Energy Production Credit Tax, Vice-President Joe Biden's comments about about unshackling the banking industry risking putting consumers "back in chains," and many negative accusations.
After hearing Romney's describing President Obama's campaign as "one of anger and hate" which he should take back to Chicago, Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt responded that Romney's campaign seemed "unhinged and strange."
"Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America," Romney said. ... “Governor Romney's comments tonight seemed unhinged, and particularly strange coming at a time when he's pouring tens of millions of dollars into negative ads that are demonstrably false,” Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said.
We seem to see Karl Rove's influence on the Romney campaign, where he takes whatever theme that is applied to this candidates and reverses it to describe the opponent.
Remember, how we've been saying for months that Mitt Romney will "say or do anything to be President," and that he is desperate? The Romney campaign, and surrogates are now saying President Obama is so desperate that he will "say or do anything to get reelected."
If today is any indication, we may soon hear Romney demanding that President Obama release his taxes, and explain his tax deductions for hobby horses.