Axelrod’s Twitter Feed Obsessed With Mitt Romney
EmailNeed more evidence the Obama campaign team remains squarely focused on Mitt Romney, recent rhetorical jabs at Newt Gingrich notwithstanding? Take a look at David Axelrod’s Twitter feed.
Axelrod, Obama’s chief re-election campaign strategist, has posted 75 messages on Twitter since the president launched his bid for a second term in April, referencing a Republican presidential contender directly on nine separate occasions.
In all but one, Axelrod attacks Romney.
He fired two new shots at the former Massachusetts governor on Twitter today after a two-month hiatus.
“Weird that Romney uses climate change to hit Newt. As MA gov, Mitt boasted that his climate plan was ‘one of the nation’s strongest,’” reads a message posted to the account @DavidAxelrod. (Twitter indicates it has “verified” the account belongs to the Democratic strategist with the same name.)
The swipe at Romney refers to a flyer put out by the governor’s campaign in Iowa that highlights a joint 2008 ad Gingrich taped with then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on climate change. “With allies like this, who needs the left?” reads the mailer, which was first reported by the Des Moines Register.
Later, Axelrod took another shot at Romney on Twitter over his recent endorsement by former U.S. Senate candidate from Delaware and Tea Party favorite, Christine O’Donnell.
“If Christine O’Donnell really wants to help Mitt, maybe she can cast a spell and make his MA and Bain records disappear!” the @DavidAxelrod tweet reads.
O’Donnell famously ran an ad during the 2010 campaign declaring, “I am not a witch.”
The only non-Romney candidate mentioned in the @DavidAxelrod Twitter feed since April is former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, whom Axelrod ribbed for his tax plan in June.
Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said in an email that Axelrod’s focus on the governor underscores just how much he’s viewed as a threat to Obama’s chances for a second term.
“Americans know that President Obama’s policies have been utter failures for the middle class. He has failed to create jobs and has burdened future generations with massive amounts of debt. President Obama and his allies do not want run against Mitt Romney and be forced to defend three years of failure,” Saul said.
“Instead of focusing on out-of-control spending and record unemployment, President Obama and his political machine are focused on campaigning and trying to tear down Mitt Romney.”
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It is not 2008 and President Obama has climbed high enough up the pole to see his shortcomings!
Posted by: Common _ Sense | December 15, 2011, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm
I see Obama’s first three years….up a pole.
Posted by: foggy | December 15, 2011, 8:33 pm 8:33 pm
“If Christine O’Donnell really wants to help Mitt, maybe she can cast a spell and make his MA and Bain records disappear!” the @DavidAxelrod tweet reads.’
Republicans must demand that Obama’s records at Harvard (e.g., lsat score) and afterwards, including his Annenberg partnership with unrepentent Marxist terrorist Ayers to dole out more than 100 million to fellow hard left extremists. Not to mention, digging into the details of the many reports of Obama’s gay sex relationship with two openly gay members of Rev. Wright’s church, both of whom
were murdered execution style days before Obama started running for President in Iowa.
Posted by: DoctorPHD | December 15, 2011, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm
This Axelrod guy is a creep, and I suspect the “brains” behind our first brain-damaged president. Barack Obama shows all the signs of the damage that is done to youthful drug abusers, primarily arrested maturity and delusional behavior. I suspect that Obama has surrounded himself with nothing but people who grew up like he did. What do you expect from this group of thugs? Both Barack and David together wouldn’t make a pimple on Mitt Romney’s hiney.
Posted by: RightStuff | December 15, 2011, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
Axelrod has a thing for dudes with orange skin
Posted by: skinnydipinacid | December 15, 2011, 9:48 pm 9:48 pm
This will be an HISTORIC election, UNPRECEDENTED in every way if Romney is the nominee and runs in the general election as the first Mormon to be elected to the presidency. Can’t wait til the media displays the same enthusiasm for the the Historic nature of the election of Romney as they did for Obama. : )
Posted by: Rick | December 15, 2011, 9:56 pm 9:56 pm
Axelrod’s quips are amateurish if not immature
Posted by: Liz Stevens | December 15, 2011, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm
Axelrod IS Saul Alinsky.
Posted by: Rico | December 15, 2011, 10:41 pm 10:41 pm
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Posted by: Jacob Ezekial | December 15, 2011, 11:30 pm 11:30 pm
Is this not an election, genius? What do you expect?
Posted by: Anonymous | December 15, 2011, 11:48 pm 11:48 pm
Axelrod thinks he’s an American… Sadly, so does the president. Beware. Read between the lines..
Posted by: Charles Whittmire | December 15, 2011, 11:56 pm 11:56 pm
Somebody’s been listening to Hannity & Limbaugh way too much. The quotes, negative themes and general ideas are identical to their rhetorical garbage; no facts, just unsubstaniated smears against Obama. As far as Obama’s failure to create jobs, that’s not HIS failure but the direct result of GOP obstruction toward anything that might be useful. Of course you blame the President. That’s the GOP strategy. The people who aren’t letting talk show hosts think for them know that Obama is as moral and competent a POTUS as we’ve ever had and surely better than any of the current GOP presidential candidates. When it comes down to the 2012 election, the anti-Obama element will need to do better than the name calling, mis-information, rumors and guilt-by-association tactics they’ve been using for the past 4 years.
Posted by: Cloteasboy | December 16, 2011, 12:06 am 12:06 am
Junglecogs: “Look what he did to Herman Cain”. If Axelrod was behind Cain’s failure, he surely had lots of help from Cain himself. No one with a fuctioning brain could draw the conclusion that you have. You’re giving Axelrod credit (blame) for things he didn’t need to do nor could he have done.
PS- What happened to the conservative mantra of taking personal responsibility for one’s actions? I guess that only applies to others and not Herman Cain.
Posted by: Cloteasboy | December 16, 2011, 12:16 am 12:16 am
@cloteasboy, you speak of people mindlessly regurgitating political talking points, and there you are doing that very thing, you are not tricking anyone other than yourself. President Obama is an incompetent failure
Posted by: imsancho | December 16, 2011, 1:33 am 1:33 am
~Axelrod has a thing for dudes with orange skin~
Skinny…adjust the color on your tv set. ;-)
Posted by: CajunW | December 16, 2011, 1:54 am 1:54 am
POSTED BY: DOCTORPHD | DECEMBER 15, 2011, 9:00 PM 9:00 PM
Yes, and they should look into the fact Obama isn’t from earth, he’s actually from the planet Zoron.
Posted by: Dave | December 16, 2011, 5:10 am 5:10 am
Barack Obama shows all the signs of the damage that is done to youthful drug abusers, primarily . . . delusional behavior.
POSTED BY: RIGHTSTUFF | DECEMBER 15, 2011, 9:17 PM 9:17 PM
You mean like how he thinks he’s President of the United States? Buck up pal, he achieved it – you may be the delusional one.
Posted by: Jane | December 16, 2011, 5:13 am 5:13 am
Perhaps Axelrod has one of these man crush things on Romney and is “tweeting” these snippy comments while trying to get over his true feelings for Romney.
Posted by: david | December 16, 2011, 8:43 am 8:43 am
This is one creepy guy.
Posted by: newcountryman | December 16, 2011, 8:54 am 8:54 am
POSTED BY: CLOTEASBOY | DECEMBER 16, 2011, 12:06 AM 12:06 AM, with people like you spewing rethoric like that its no wonder the shape we’re in. Explain where all the showel ready jobs are that he pushed and received the money with the help from the DEMOCRATS in both houses, (which was nothing but payoffs to his campaign contributores) and now you declare that it is the GOP’s fault for not creating jobs. Noone smears the Pres. its just that the main stream media forgot to tell all the nice little shortcomings and associations with home grown terrorists and gangsters. Did you ever ask what the hope and change will be, I bet not, you just bought the whole media hype.
Posted by: Lizzie | December 16, 2011, 12:13 pm 12:13 pm
Hmmm….. Yeah, Obama really has zero responsibility for any jobs. He has at least part of it. As for Axelrod, where does his interesting obsession come from. I hear more abut Obama describing how people which don’t agree with him are stupid than how any of his actual proposed policies are supposed to work. Plus, why not some improvement when the Democrats controlled everything. I am not cognitively dissonant about our president. But I don’t place zero responsibility on him either. Please Mr. President, more explanation could do just nicely.
Posted by: Dan in MA | December 17, 2011, 2:52 am 2:52 am