Election 2012: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, presidential election

Romney aide: Obama’s campaign like ‘gyrating, intermittent lawn sprinklers’

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Mitt Romney’s address on Tuesday night was “a big speech to mark a big win that begins a big debate about big things,” the Massachusetts governor’s campaign argued in a memo to reporters Friday.

The memo comes as Romney kicks off a campaign swing at an Ohio university Friday afternoon, and days after Obama’s campaign advisers announced a slate of official campaign events on May 5.

Romney’s campaign manager, Matt Rhoades, in the memo compared President Obama’s campaign to “one of those gyrating, intermittent lawn sprinklers, spewing out attacks in seemingly random directions, hoping to get somebody wet somewhere but hoping even more to talk about anything but the unemployment rate, federal debt, gas prices, or rising health insurance premiums.”

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