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Wow. That was pretty fast. It’s almost like they had these arguments laying around somewhere. They just didn’t expect the Kasich campaign and RGA to make them FIRST! A response to this morning’s RGA ad from the Strickland folks is up and it is going to make Republicans real sorry they decided to go after TRADE to attack Ted. Real sorry:
Full Story... →Seriously, the Republican Governors Association is engaged in that tired, cliche GOP tactic of false equivalencies.
This is an incredibly dumb ad for the RGA to run.
Incredibly dumb.
In making this ad, the RGA is conceding that support for policies that lead to outsourcing are wrong… from a Republican perspective. That means the tax law changes that Senate candidate Rob Portman supported, the “free trade” deals that he pushed through Congress, and the repeated trade deals he and Kasich supported in Congress, like NAFTA, are “job killers.”
Don’t believe me, just ask the RGA! It’s in their AD!
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Full Story... →I had to skip my second night with the Palin book to attend (and work at) a town hall meeting in Baltimore about U.S. manufacturing policy, or rather, the need for a U.S. manufacturing policy.
I’ve been working on this issue for a while but I finally understood more about why U.S. manufacturing has declined so significantly. I always understood that China was part of the problem, but I just assumed it was because they were winning in the market place: they could make and sell products more cheaply than we could. I thought this was only because they paid [...]
Full Story... →…and they’ll probably buy it hook line and sinker. This ad looks and sounds great.
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But like so many other Hillary strategies, the finger that she is trying to point is actually toward a mirror that reflects right back at her. Those jobs lost when Magnaquench moved to China? Happened on hubby Bill’s watch:
In the ad, the candidate notes that President Bush could have stopped the shutdown, but didn’t. Ironically, the initial sale of Magnaquench — to a group of investors that included two Chinese companies — occurred in 1995, when the president was Sen. [...]
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