Romney Must Fire Andrea Saul
August 9, 2012 11 Comments
Obama’s Super PAC is running an ad claiming that Romney is responsible for the death of Joe Soptic’s wife from cancer. Soptic worked for GST Steel, which Bain Capital purchased in 1993. In 2001 GST was closed and Soptic lost his job. Meanwhile his wife had her own job and her own health insurance which she kept until she lost her job in 2003. Her job had nothing to do with Bain Capital. In 2006 she is diagnosed with cancer and she eventually dies. Keep in mind, Romney left the day to day operations of Bain in 1999 and formally left in 2002. In short, Bain and Romney had nothing to do with Soptic’s wife not having health insurance when she was diagnosed with cancer in 2006.
The Obama campaign is distancing itself from the claim of its Super PAC. But in doing so they have to deny that they told the same tale back in May. Anyone who believes that Obama’s Super PAC is truly separate from his campaign is fooling themselves. Both campaigns have a Super PAC and there is little doubt they coordinate together. Obama’s Super PAC is doing little more than spinning the same lie that the Obama campaign spun back in May. The difference is that now they’re getting called out for it. The truth is Bain isn’t responsible for either one of these people losing their insurance. Had Bain not purchased GST in 1993, Soptic likely would have lost his job and his insurance long before 2001. Either way his wife would have been unaffected as she had her own insurance at her own job which was wholly unrelated to Bain Capital.
The noteworthy part of this whole episode is the Romney campaign response to all of this. Andrea Saul, a Romney campaign operative and spokesman, declared that if Soptic and his wife lived in Massachusetts they would have been covered by Romneycare. Thus highlights every problem conservatives have ever had with Mitt Romney. How can he run a campaign against Obamacare when his idiot spokesman is out touting big government socialist medicine put in place by Romney in Massachusetts? Romney barely has any credibility on the issue of health care in the first place, he cannot afford to have his closest operatives undermine him further. What Saul did is give Obama a great opening. Now Obama can run around saying that Soptic’s wife would be covered by Romneycare, which he’ll of course say is the blueprint for Obamacare. Thanks a million Andrea.
Ann Coulter believes Saul should be fired and we here at Steven Birn Speaks are in complete agreement. Romney cannot afford to have his operatives making ridiculous arguments like this as it completely undermines his argument to repeal Obamacare. Not only does it hurt Romney’s credibility with independents, it disheartens his base. If there is one thing Romney cannot do under any circumstances it is disheartening the base. He needs us to come out and vote for him in November. Republicans are more enthusiastic about voting for Romney than Democrats are voting for Obama. But that can easily flip flop if Romney’s operatives continue to spout left wing nonsense that undermines their candidate’s conservative positions. Andrea Saul needs to be fired. Quickly.
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I love it. Romney operative accidentally tells truth….FIRE HER!!!
Romneycare is bankrupting Massachusetts, so if Andrea Saul is going to brag about who would be covered there she should also take on the fact that Romneycare is a massive expense. The fact is that for the last year Romney has tried to make a distinction between state and Federal powers and Saul did him no favors by bragging about Romneycare.
If she can’t come up with something better than this to respond to the lies being told in the ad from Priorities USA, she needs to duct tape her mouth. Methinks they are paying her too much.
Exactly. Why even bring up Romneycare when Obama’s Super PAC is outright lying in their ad?
Yes, anyone who tells the truth in a political campaign should be duct taped immediately!
So Steve, is Andrea trans-gender or do you find it impossible to say “spokeswomen”?
AND WHO IS THE “WE” AT STEVEN BIRNS? Are you a franchise operation?
LD-That is very quaint misogynist image you have come up with-good for you!
The masculine is generic, it always was until political correctness took over. We is a literary device, learn English. As for Andrea Saul it isn’t a matter of her telling the truth, it’s a matter of her undermining Romney’s position. Is she even telling the truth? Romneycare didn’t exactly work out as planned.
So you refuse to! I thought so. You are just an old fashioned guy after all. And do you still call a grown black man “boy”? Do men go to work while the girls stay home and cackle? Was the American West settled by pioneers and their wives? Is God male or female? He or she? Do you think how we use language is important in determining positions of status and dominance?
So there is no “WE” . Oh, I understand the use of “We” as a literary device. It is generally used by someone who is either very arrogant, has a pseudo-superiority complex or is trying to sound very impressive. Maybe Steven Birn will be the name of a new university teaching the spectacular political theory expressed by you in this blog. Then, you will have the right, without sounding a bit pretentious, of saying, ” We at Steven Birn.”
To insinuate racism when one uses traditional English is nothing short of outrageous. Are you sure you aren’t working for Obama’s Super PAC?
I think your refusal to acknowledge the real harm that occurs when a person uses either sexist, racist or insulting language is outrageous. The use of “spokesman” when you mean spokes women is no longer standard language with anyone I have heard or read recently Perhaps it is standard at Bob Jones University. Calling a grown black man”boy” was not considered racist up until a few years ago. Anyone from the South would tell you its just our traditional way of addressing black men. Same as “them folks” at Steven Birn who won’t give up the male dominate sexist language of past centuries. You don’t mean any harm by it-do you?
Remember learning in law school that when a man and women married they became “one” . Problem was that it was the man they became. She ceased to exist. Ss that the way you think it should still be?
The notion that spokesman is a sexist and outrageous statement is ridiculous. We aren’t talking about race here, we’re talking about sex. There is a huge difference. I am unwilling to give up centuries of generic English language to appease a bunch of liberals who want to play word games. There is a huge difference between saying something unkind and racist and using generic English. Apparently you can’t figure out the difference.
Bob Jones? I’m not an evangelical baptist. As for marriage, I take a Biblical view of it.
No, discrimination and subjugation because of sex or race is the same thing. Immoral. Language is an extension our thoughts-and a good barometer on our world view. You have a lot to learn Mr. Birn.
So women in the world have no issue with discrimination? Its really a non-issue? Sexist language is just a word game? Well, hell, I am no liberal but I think you are a jerk! I think you are a reactionary asshole! A pretentious little prick with more than a few marbles loose. Are you a closeted self-hating homosexual? Like so many right-wing screwballs turn out to be? Not that I have anything against gay people. Why don’t you do the world a favor and come out of the closet if you are.You might turn into a real person. Only a person with an extreme personality disorder could pretend to believe the things you want to believe.