Lanny Davis Excuses Obama Camp's Smear of Romney by Comparing to Swift Boat Vets Ad
Apparently, some Democrats believe the recent string of ads against Romney are justified due to Bush's Swift Boat Vets back in 2004. Appearing on America's Newsroom on July 16th, Lanny Davis, a Democratic operative, was shocked that Karl Rove would have such disgust towards this media blitz by the Obama campaign. Mr. Davis apparently is still waiting for a response from "George Bush in 2004 [since he] didn't say anything about [the] swift boat ads." Nice pivot Lanny. Perhaps it could be a little payback for Bush's hazing of Lanny when he attended Yale.
Regardless, it seemed both sides agreed that the comments made by Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter were way "out of bounds." National Review editor Rich Lowry was especially upset about this recent development. However,Davis kept going back to 2004's Swift Boat ads.
LANNY DAVIS: There is no doubt it's an effort to distract and there is no doubt-- I agree with Rich 100% that suggesting it's a felony is way over the top. And if we stick to the facts Mitt Romney wasn't running Bain Capital when he was running the Olympics period. Innuendo and suggesting felonies is way over the top. So I agree with that. The American people want to hear about the economy and I agreed with Karl that they are making a mistake not focusing on independent voters whether they're getting turned off by this food fight. But give me a break, Rich, about outrage and all the adjectives, the swift boats felt betrayed therefore they could lie about John Kerry’s disgusting smears in the swift boat ads. And I didn't hear Karl outraged about that. Every time I hear you or anybody on Republican side use adjectives about negative ads-- I say wait a minute.
No, you wait a minute, Mr. Davis.
First off, this is an extraordinary circumstance. The Obama campaign is making egregious allegations that Romney is hiding something illegal or he lied on his SEC report. Furthermore, George Bush never accused his opponent, Sen. John Kerry, for committing a felony. Swift Boat Vets was a 527 group unaffiliated with the Bush campaign. Stephanie Cutter is senior staff on the Obama campaign.
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Lanny the Liar has no ethics
Submitted by frank14 on Tue, 07/17/2012 - 1:00pm.
He lied to us for 8 months about Monicagate and then when Bubba's DNA matched on the Navy blue dress he should have disappeared from public life forever. What a lying snivelling creep!
democrats hate the truth
Submitted by ohio granny on Tue, 07/17/2012 - 10:53pm.
Swift Boats ads were true about John Kerry. The democrats are lying about Romney. Lanny Davis is no different than Obama, they both are liars.
Obama is a compulsive, serial liar. Lanny Davis is a nasty, arrogant liar.
Everyone knows the Swift Boat people told the truth...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Wed, 07/18/2012 - 3:15am.
about Kerry, that he was undeserving of his Viet Nam accolades and medals. Read a few of the headlines on NewsBusters and see the untrue garbage Liberals are tossing at Romney. Quite a difference between the two, I'd say. One mental midget on the left proclaims for all to hear and to share in his stupidity that Romney, who has given untold amounts of money to his church and charities, has no heart! Others have said even worse. I'm so thankful that my parents did not raise me to be a Democrat!
Other minor points...
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Wed, 07/18/2012 - 10:00am.
"The Obama campaign is making egregious allegations that Romney is hiding something illegal or he lied on his SEC report. Furthermore, George Bush never accused his opponent, Sen. John Kerry, for committing a felony. Swift Boat Vets was a 527 group unaffiliated with the Bush campaign."
The Obambi campaign is quoting ONE debunked source = LYING. The Swift boat Vets had proof Kerry was a piss-poor naval officer and claimed combat credit that he wasn't due. He also came back, with his fraudulent honors, to slam America and our servicemen and -women.
Someone needs to teach these so-superior intellectual democrats the difference between apples and oranges...