I'm At WRMONEY In Cincinnati

Mitt Romney's first campaign stop after the convention?  Right here in Cincy yesterday.  Southwest Ohio will determine who wins the state, and Ohio may determine the Presidency, just look at 2004.  Romney wants to turn out Boehner Country and the northern suburbs and Dayton as much as he can to tip the scales, but Hamilton County can go either way and both sides know it.  Obama won here 53-46 over McCain in 2008, for Romney to win the state he's going to have to win Hamilton County...and he knows it.

Returning to campaign mode on Saturday –– the first day of college football - Romney offered several sports-related analogies.

Obama, he said, promised more jobs, but “23 million people are out of work or stopped looking for work or underemployed.

“Let me tell you, if you have a coach that's 0-23 million, you say it's time to get a new coach. It’s time for America to see a winning season again and we're going to bring it to them.”

Romney really is a moron.  He's basically saying having any unemployed or underemployed Americans is Obama's fault.  If having ANY unemployed or underemployed Americans is grounds for not being re-elected, then no President should be.  In fact, basically every President we've ever had is, by the standards of Romney's idiotic sports metaphor, a "losing coach".  Hell, Mitt Romney himself was a losing coach as Governor of Massachusetts, right?  Jesus.   Oh, but it gets worse.

Romney also mentioned Neil Armstrong, the former astronaut and University of Cincinnati professor from Indian Hill who died last week.

“I will do everything in my power to bring us together, because united, America built the strongest economy in the history of the earth,” Romney said. “United, we put Neil Armstrong on the moon.”

We did, Mitt.  And we did it by using the government to do it.  And I'm sure Neil Armstrong would cold cock you for the way your party treats government employees and college professors:  as burdensome cancers on society that need to be cut out so that you can afford more tax cuts.  Jackass.

And as far as uniting America?  This is the guy running ads saying Obama is making it easier for those people to get welfare.  It's an awful, racist, divisive lie and the Romney campaign admits that being a racist bunch of assholes has been their most effective ad campaign so far.  That's the kind of "uniter" Mitt Romney is, a disgusting con man playing on fear and hatred in order to drive people to the polls.

President Obama's response was in Iowa again on Saturday.  He summed up the entire RNC in one sentence:

The president recalled the GOP convention as a look backward. “It was a re-run — we’d seen it before,” he said. “You might as well have watched it on a black-and-white TV.”

Well played with the double entendre, Mr. President.

The only thing Romney will do to unite us is make all of us poor to make him rich.

Jackass.

[UPDATE]  Speaking of jackasses, I see Hugh Hewitt is convinced the election in 2012 will cement Ohio's permanent red state status or something, with Romney and Senate candidate Josh Mandel winning in a fashion that "won't even be close".    He gives five reasons (Ohio loves Kasich and the GOP leadership, Ohio loves fracking, the Catholic vote will abandon Obama, the Jewish vote will abandon Obama, and Sherrod Brown is a, "uber-leftist") as to why, all of which are laughable when you look back at the 2011 election where the Jewish and Catholic vote helped viciously smack Kasich down. 

This state has union autoworkers Hugh, and they know which side left them for dead.  Kasich's at 41% approval.  Things are getting closer for Josh Mandel, but that's because the state's been close.  It always is.  Brown continues to lead in poll after poll. And let's not forget that the GOP leadership is suing to stop people from voting.  And fracking?  Yeah Hugh, people like earthquakes in Ohio.  Not even Kasich wants that in an election year.

Don't speak up about the Buckeye state's politics unless you know something about them, Hugh.