DNC Targets Romney In Arizona

The Democratic National Committee is running television ads against GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney in Arizona, a historically red state.

The ad zeros in on comments the former Massachusetts Governor made urging the government to take a hands-off approach to the foreclosure crisis.

“Almost half of Arizona homeowners [are] underwater,” the ad’s voiceover states. “Mitt Romney’s message to Arizonans: you’re on your own.”

In a recorded meeting with the Las Vegas Review Journal’s Editorial Board, Romney stated that he would allow the housing crisis “run its course and hit the bottom.

“Allow investors to buy homes, put renters in them, fix the homes up and let it turn around and come back up,” Romney continued. “The Obama administration has slow-walked the foreclosure process that has long existed, and as a result we still have a foreclosure overhang.”

Democrats were quick to pick up on the comments as evidence that Romney was out of touch, adding that Romney made the comments while in Nevada, a state hit particularly hard by foreclosures.