When word leaked Wednesday afternoon that senior Obama strategist David Axelrod would appear at the State House on Thursday morning to criticize Mitt Romney’s record as governor, Romney’s team quickly mobilized.
There would be no uncontested appearance such as that George H.W. Bush staged with Boston police officers when he was running for president in 1988 against Governor Michael S. Dukakis, and no photo-op similar to Bush peering into a then-polluted Boston Harbor.
The Romney campaign organized its own rally 90 minutes before Axelrod was to appear, then had a boisterous group of its campaign staffers and interns remain until the Obama event.
They ended up drowning out Axelrod, muting his criticism of Romney and exhibiting the kind of guerrilla tactics normally reserved for the Occupy Wall Street crowd....
That's a real low blow from the crap corporate media.
To top it off, the Romney team brought in a bubble-making machine to lend a festive air to their mischief. Not to be denied, they commandeered an external outlet on an NBC News satellite truck to supply the electricity.
In the long arc of a campaign, the event is probably insignificant. But it reiterated the challenges the Obama team has faced as it has tried to execute its plan to define Romney negatively.
On Thursday, the Romney campaign’s penchant for secrets - and ability to keep one - also paid off when he staged a counterattack on Obama not just at the State House, but across the country in California....
Yeah, except that backfired on him.
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