Impeach McConnell, Boehner, and Cantor Today: Pathetic Romney, like McCain, shows his true intent isn't to beat Obama, but to waste our time

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Pathetic Romney, like McCain, shows his true intent isn't to beat Obama, but to waste our time

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Romney's instinct is to praise Obama. When called on it he later says, oh yeah, I'm really gonna be saying stuff about Obama...Country Club Republicans just want to block us from getting good candidates. When George Bush #1 was up for re-election in 1992 he showed no fight. He said, just wait til I get to the convention, then I'll really be letting everyone know.

6/30/11, "Romney backtracks on argument that Obama made economy worse," NBC News, Murray and Loffman (NBC is owned by GE whose chairman is an adviser to Obama. ed.)

"Over the last few weeks, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has argued that President Obama's policies have made the economy worse....

But at his press conference today in Allentown, PA -- where he was highlighting a company that had closed, after President Obama touted it benefitting from the stimulus -- Romney backtracked on the he-made-it-worse line.
When NBC producer Sue Kroll asked the former Massachusetts governor why he believes that Obama's policies have made the economy worse -- when the economy is now growing (and not shrinking like it was in 2009), when the Dow is climbing (and no longer in a free-fall like it was in '09), and when the unemployment rate is down a full percentage point from where it was in Oct. '09 -- Romney gave this answer:

I didn't say that things are worse.

Romney went on to say:

What I said was that economy hasn't turned around, that you've got 20 million Americans out of work, or seriously unemployed; housing values still going down. You have a crisis of foreclosures in this country. The economy, by the way, if you think the economy is great and going well, be my guest. But the president of the United States, when he put in place his stimulus plan and borrowed $787 billion, said he would hold unemployment below 8% -- and 8% seemed like an awfully high number. It hasn't been below 8% since. That's failure. We're over 9% unemployment. That's failure. He set the bogie himself at 8% ,which strikes me as a very high number and we're still above that three years later.

*** UPDATE *** About 24 hours after this story was published, the Romney campaign sent First Read this response: “Mitt Romney was responding to the reporter’s comment about the stock market," said spokeswoman Andrea Saul. "If the Democrats are waiting for Mitt Romney to ease up on his criticism of President Obama’s economic record, it’s simply not going to happen. It is an undeniable fact that Barack Obama has failed to create jobs and fix the economy. He is on track to be the only president to leave office with a net job loss. President Obama and the Democrats will spend the next 17 months trying to distract voters from their horrible record on the economy – and it’s not going to work.”
However NBC producer Sue Kroll asked Romney MORE than just about the stock market. Here's what Kroll asked the presidential candidate: "Gov. Romney, you continue to say that the economy is worse. But unemployment is lower than it was in 2009; the stock market was tumbling and is now above 12,000; and it is growing slowly -- we just had 12%, excuse me, 2% gain this quarter. So how do you continue to say that things are worse if they really aren't worse?""
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Romney falls apart when it counts. A huffing and puffing note 24 hours after the fact doesn't change that. ed.
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Romney isn't much different from Obama, meaning he is worthless. We need the exact opposite of what is now being done to this country. Everyone knows it. It's low hanging fruit, ready to drop from the tree, but the GOP establishment won't touch it. Instead they scold us, telling us Obama has done good things:
4/2/09, "Romney strikes bipartisan tone at GOP fundraiser," CNN
"Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney praised President Obama at a GOP fundraising dinner Wednesday in front of a crowd that might have been expecting a heavy dose of rally-the-troops conservatism.
"I also think it's important for us to nod to the president when he's right," Romney said, after chiding the president's budget. "He will not always be wrong, and he's done some things I agree with."
Romney, who spoke at a dinner for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said he's pleased with the president's plans to "finish the job" in Iraq and Afghanistan -- lines that drew applause from the partisan audience. He also applauded the president for

standing up to the auto industry.

"I hope he continues to be tough and shows some backbone because that industry is not going to make it unless we have real backbone and get those guys to fundamentally restructure all of their obligations," he said.
The former businessman even offered faint praise for Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, saying that after a series of initial missteps, "I think he's finally getting close to the right answer.""...
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