ROMNEY'S ANSWER TO CLINTON SPEECH COMPLETELY DIVORCED FROM REALITY

Attention liberals: if you are not subscribed to Mitt Romney on Facebook, you have no idea how angry you should be. Although I am of the center-left persuasion, I "liked" the Republican nominee's page a couple of weeks ago. So far, it hasn't been all that interesting, just a vague graph that revealed nothing in particular, a few slogans and some promotional images of Mitt smiling with his sleeves rolled up, ready for work.

My tea leaves said that today would be different. Last night, former Pres. William Jefferson "Bubba" Clinton delivered a policy-rich, 48-minute speech that almost literally took the Republican party to school. I read a comment this morning that Republicans know they're in trouble when the only thing they can criticize about Clinton's speech is its length (click for graphs!).

Today, the Romney campaign on Facebook lowered the bar:

BILL CLINTON: “Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”
VOICEOVER: “23 million Americans struggling for work. A middle class falling further behind.”
BILL CLINTON: “Give me a break.”

Welcome to the new low bar: you know the republicans are in trouble when the only thing they can criticize about Clinton's speech is that he wouldn't have said it when Obama was running against his wife 4 years ago.

The irony, of course, is that it shouldn't matter. Even if Bubba had his doubts about Obama in 2008, the man's been president for nearly 4 years--more than long enough for a skeptic to reasonably change his mind, anyway.

It gets much worse. On top of that being, on the surface, a comically weak argument, it's also complete horse shit. 

A five-minute trip to Google is more than long enough to find and view a longer clip of Bubba's comments:

As anyone can see, there's just one more problem about Romney's ad: Bill isn't talking about the economy at all; he isn't even talking about Obama as a person. Bubba is criticizing a single claim Obama made during the campaign regarding the Iraq War. That's it.

This is about as relevant as Hilary calling Obama a "bluffer" during a White House basement card game. I'm afraid that's all it takes to make an ad in Romney's America.