New GOP Slogan: Down With Greed!

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Politics New GOP Slogan: Down With Greed! Will voters buy the new Republican attacks on Romney's business record? By David Weigel Posted Tuesday, Jan 10, 2012, at 01:32 AM ET BEDFORD, N.H.—Steve Bannon and Rick Tyler stood near the entrance of JD's Tavern, the Manchester Radisson's inexplicably Western-themed ale house. Tyler, a former Newt Gingrich spokesman who now runs the Winning Our Future super-PAC, huddled with a cellphone, identity cloaked under a baseball cap. Bannon, the conservative director and radio host, was dressed and groomed as if he'd just motorcycle-jumped a POW camp fence. When Tyler finished his call, Bannon put another Blackberry in front of him, another number. "Dana Loesch wants you on her show," he said. "Biggest Tea Party radio show out there. She heard you tonight on my show. She flipped. Call her." It'd been a few hours since the New York Times ran a story about Tyler's coup. His PAC, newly enriched by $5 million from gambling magnate Sheldon Adelson, had released a 27-minute documentary about Mitt Romney's days at Bain Capital. The film—intended to be the foundation of an ad campaign in South Carolina, telling the state's king-making Republican voters all about Romney's days at Bain Capital—has it all: pulsing soundtrack, scary B-roll of men smoking cigarettes and shaking hands, three-Kleenex interviews with laid-off workers. "Romney keeps talking about the 100,000 jobs he created," said Tyler. "Those 100,000 jobs were in Mexico. And nobody's been talking about it." This is the break-the-glass plan for Mitt's GOP opponents: An attack on Romney's brand of capitalism, funded by profits from ... To continue reading, click here. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Lithwick: The Pressure Is on the Supreme Court To Solve the Nutty Texas Redistricting Fiasco New Attacks on Romney Also Indict Shameless Capitalism. Will GOP Voters Buy Them? Why the Economy Is Still Such a Mess: Banks Won't Give Loans to Small Businesses	Advertisement
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