The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), one of the nation’s biggest public-workers unions, has a new ad up in Florida attacking Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital. The ad targets Romney’s involvement in Damon Corp. and accuses Romney of “Corporate greed run amok” and of making “a fortune” while defrauding Medicare.
What is remarkable is how similar this attack ad produced by a left-wing public sector union is from the ads produced by Newt Gingrich’s super PAC Winning the Future attacking Romney’s record at Bain during the South Carolina primary. With the exception of Gingrich’s brief nod to the free market and AFSCME’s tying Romney to Florida governor Rick Scott at the end, the two ads are almost indistinguishable.
Gingrich denied taking a page out of the Democrats’ playbook with his Bain attacks. “I don’t think I’m using the language of the Left. I’m using the language of classic American populism,” he said on Fox and Friends. “Main Street has always been suspicious of Wall Street.”
You decide. Here are the two ads side-by-side. Watch them both (without getting to the credits at the end) and see if you can tell which is which.
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