Rick Perry Campaign Ad Hammers Mitt Romney On Health Care (VIDEO)

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is out with a new scathing attack ad linking former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to President Barack Obama on the issue of health care.

In the slick 60-second spot, text flashes across the screen that reads, "America's Most Damaging Prescription: Obamacare." The last word then dissolves to "Romneycare." The ad highlights footage of the president praising the health care reform package signed into law by Romney in Massachusetts and the former governor defending the measure.

The attack also hits Romney on changes made to his book, No Apology, on the health care issue. The ad asserts, "Even the richest man can't buy back his past" and closes with footage of Romney saying, "there are a lot of reasons not to elect me."

A Republican source tells ABC News that the Perry campaign plans to pour $20 million into attack ads targeting Romney ahead of the early primary contests.

Perry trails Romney by nine points nationally, according to a Washington Post/ABC poll released last week. Perry has stumbled in recent debates in the wake of formally announcing his candidacy in August. Candidates vying for the GOP presidential nomination will face off in a primary debate on Tuesday in New Hampshire.

 

 

Comments

[adrianrobinsonm]

08:58 AM on 10/11/2011

AT LEAST MITT ROMNEY DOESN'T ATTACK THIS IDIOT'S LACK OF INTELLIGENCE! IT'S A REAL WONDER THAT HE WENT AS FAR AS HE DID!

[Deaconess]

02:53 AM on 10/11/2011

Duh! Dumb Ricky just keeps making this one point over and over. Real intelligent guy---NOT. Notice to Perry---everyone has heard this months ago---but keep saying it as it makes you look even dumber. And who care who wins the Republican nomination, as Obama is going to win anyway.

[OhMyBoehner]

12:17 AM on 10/11/2011

Spend your money perry - spend it ALL!

[Gary Crum]

08:16 PM on 10/10/2011

Ricky is the darling of the ultra-right wing of the GOP. these folks have made it no secret that they will do whatever might be necessary to WIN...whatever the issue.....Romney may as well get used it it.. he will be the target of very slick, very nasty and very expensive attack politics from the Koch bros, Tea Party, wacko element of the GOP. how many ways can you say "self-defeating"...if Romney wins the nomination, he will be badly wounded going into the general election.....if Perry wins, he will have alienated every reasonable Republican in the country with the very dirty politics.......Nice goin' Rick.....

[DeTex]

10:04 PM on 10/10/2011

"reasonable Republican"

The oxymoron of the century (thus far).

[floridanorm]

07:14 PM on 10/10/2011

This should be fun! The Evangelicals vs The Mormons! Haven't seen action like this since the Gladiators used to throw the Christians to the lions!

[onehenry]

05:47 PM on 10/10/2011

Perry turned out to be a quicker has been than Bachman. That is saying something.

[miketothad]

05:32 PM on 10/10/2011

Thank GAWD for Rick!
The thought of more people with health insurance is frightening!

Obama 2012

[mcartri]

04:51 PM on 10/10/2011

"Obamacare" was originally written by the ultra conservative "think" tank, Heritage Foundation. Conservatives loved it because it created mandated insurance for millions of new customers, filling the private health care coffers, with the added benefit of massive handouts to Big Pharma. If John McCain had been elected, the GOP would have fought for McCaincare. That Obama didn't lift a finger for even a weak public option, shows again why he is a moderate Republican, not a Democrat.

[24kgold]

05:35 PM on 10/10/2011

What? Didn't lift a finger? Where were you during the healthcare debate? They thought the healthcare bill was dead but he got it through, they will have to tweak it and build onto it just like they did social security and medicare.

[mcartri]

07:09 PM on 10/10/2011

24kgold, please read my last sentence again. He didn't lift a finger to "obtain a public option" in the bill. Without a public option, the Heritage Foundation plan is the Obama plan. I understand why he sold out in secret talks to Big Pharma to oppose any competitiveness on drug prices. This kept them from advertising to defeat the bill...fair enough. The bill has some very good aspects, but he fought for the conservative's original plan, not a progressive one. until there is national health care, we are doomed to continued failure.

[larmarch5]

04:43 PM on 10/10/2011

Rick Perry has become a joke. He will NOT recover. He is the coyote shootin' TPaw replacement executioner with a heart who plop-flopped when trying to talk about Romney's flip flops.

[macsportsvt]

04:40 PM on 10/10/2011

Perry is the bitter end and a shameful representative of the GOP. As a fourth generation Republican, he is the sort opportunist and attack animal we never liked, never approved and never wanted and thank goodness, his time is done and no one with an IQ north 100 takes him seriously anymore. A truly meaningless flash in the pan.

[larmarch5]

04:44 PM on 10/10/2011

Who is the fourth generation Republican? You? Because Perry was a democrat longer than he's been a republican.

[BrettnCalgary]

07:02 PM on 10/10/2011

"no one with an IQ north 100 takes him seriously"

I thought you wanted to talk about republicans?

[Gary Crum]

08:18 PM on 10/10/2011

hey, you don't know what you're talking about....I just read the statistics on the IQ of right-wing Republicans....oh, never mind, that was the total IQ scores for the whole family....my mistake....

[El Duderino 791]

04:33 PM on 10/10/2011

Rick Perry voice over:

"Is it the Mitt Romney that was on the side of against the Second Amendment before he was for the Second Amendment? Was it was before he was before these social programs, uh, from the standpoint he was standing, uh, for Roe vs. Wade before he was against Roe, uh, Roe vs. Wade…uh…he was…uh for Race To The Top…"

[larmarch5]

04:46 PM on 10/10/2011

Also known as Perry's flip-flop-plop-plop-fizzle-fizzle.

[Howard Sternner]

04:30 PM on 10/10/2011

I love Romneys health care plan.
Romney 2012

[miketothad]

05:44 PM on 10/10/2011

Romney's against his health care plan, now.

[ggliddygirl2005]

04:23 PM on 10/10/2011

Let me just tell you pro-Obama Care people this ... if I'm mandated to pay for health care and I'm forced to pay for your health care too then I want all abortions banned, every participant to be tested for illegal drugs on a random basis, a limit on how many times you can use the ER and under what stipulations permit you to utilize its services, stipulations on ambulance rides, and a host of other requirements including how many babies you're allowed to have that are paid for by my hard-earned money. I'm not going to pay for you like I've got money to burn.

[Gryphon87]

04:51 PM on 10/10/2011

I'm in the same boat. If im gonna be forced to pay for the healthcare of all the obese chain smokers in the red states of the country (South Carolina and Mississippi have the WORST records of all 50 states) then I want fast food, dwarf tossing, civil war re-enacting, and bull riding banned.

Joking aside, ggliddgirl2005, did you hear how right-wing and Fascist your post sounded?

[solid centrist]

05:00 PM on 10/10/2011

Hey! Listen up all you know it alls. For the entire first forty years of our marriage, My wife and I have never been without health insurance via group policies of our respective employers. We usually opted to have both of us and our two children covered by the group insurance from my employer. My wife and I were in agreement that the best thing for our family was for her to be a full time mom until our youngest child was twelve years old. She went back to work for about fifteen years before she "retired" while still fairly young. We had the group insurance from my company's plan. I retired at the end of 2007. We had COBRA insurance for eighteen months that was a continuation of my group plan. The premiums were not too terribly high. I became eligible for Medicare in late 2009. Surprise! Getting health insurance for my wife was impossible except through the state's "high risk pool" run by Blue Cross. Blue Cross was one of the many companies that would not insure her because of the kryptonite words "type two diabetes' on her healthcare records. So, for a measly $1700 per month, she is covered by a fairly decent insurance policy. She is eligible for Medicare in January. She just came home from the hospital yesterday after receiving a new hip to match her other new hip from a year ago.

You Republithugs had better keep your filthy hands off of our Medicare.

[The Notorious PDF]

04:15 PM on 10/10/2011

ROFL. This is hilarious to watch these two Repubs eating each other. Hopefully Perry will do the dirty work and damage Romney so much that he has no chance in the general election.

[macsportsvt]

04:46 PM on 10/10/2011

Sorry to burst your bubble but the public sees Perry for the fool that he is and Romney for the promise of good government he offers, so to quote the Man in the Street of today: It ain't gonna' happen." And if you don't like the sound of President Romney you may want to consider emigration.

[The Notorious PDF]

04:52 PM on 10/10/2011

Typical of a right-winger to say something to someone else that he doesn't even apply to himself. Anyhow, what "promise of good government"? Is there a candidate who has ever promised "bad government"? The public doesn't know what Romney is "promising", and no one's paying attention and no one cares right now about any of these w*ck jobs in the Republican primaries.

[askandtell]

09:18 AM on 10/11/2011

I don't think increasing defense spending will be a big hit along with no financial reform for Wall Street. He offers 99% of Americans decreased earned benefits. No, not going to happen.

[Robert Lee Harrington]

04:10 PM on 10/10/2011

Perry is the biggest flop flopper there is;

HE USED TO BE A DEMOCRAT!

He ran for office as a Democrat
His father was a Democrat.
"Perry supported Al Gore.. in Texas"
"In 1989, Perry announced that he was switching parties, becoming a Republican." Wiki
He became a Republican to run for office in Texas