Romney lashes out against good economic news

[ProSense]

Romney lashes out against good economic news

by Jed Lewison

Mitt Romney during his closing statement on Wednesday night:

There's no question in my mind that if the president were to be reelected you'll continue to see a middle-class squeeze with incomes going down and prices going up. I'll get incomes up again. You'll see chronic unemployment. We've had 43 straight months with unemployment above 8 percent.

That's one of Romney's favorite lines. He uses it in just about every stump speech he gives. Ever since unemployment fell below 9 percent, it's been his talking point of first resort. And now it's gone. But don't worry, just because it's good news for America doesn't mean Mitt Romney is celebrating. In fact, based on his statement, he seems downright depressed. And maybe even a little bit mad.

This is not what a real recovery looks like. We created fewer jobs in September than in August, and fewer jobs in August than in July, and we’ve lost over 600,000 manufacturing jobs since President Obama took office. If not for all the people who have simply dropped out of the labor force, the real unemployment rate would be closer to 11 percent.

Poor Mitt. Good news makes him miserable, doesn't it? After hitting double-digits at the height of the Great Recession, the unemployment rate is now at its lowest point since January 2009. Things are getting better, but all he wants to do is convince you that they're getting worse—because his bucket list depends on it.

7:24 AM PT: More sad Romney:

Not what Romney wants to see as he goes to FL. MT @FLGovScott: Tampa & Miami saw largest unemp rate declines in US. http://bls.gov/...

— @Ari_Shapiro via Twitter for iPhone

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/05/1140506/-Romney-lashes-out-against-good-economic-news

...7.8% Unemployment Rate!!!! - Conservatives Charge Conspiracy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021475945

Damn GOOD Jobs Report: 'What's going on here? These are big jumps up!'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021475447

The death of a talking point
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021476056

[warrior1]

1. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[onehandle]

2. Angry Liar Says Something... nt

[still_one]

3. the puke republican machine is rooting for people to suffer, that is the reason for their existence

today

what a garbage party

I don't recall in the 20th and 21st century where the Democrats did that

[Inuca]

4. That FLGovScott!

He must be an Obama plant

[spanone]

5. he's got NOTHING

[flamingdem]

6. All he has left is picking on Big Bird

sqwak

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Not just a sad Rmoney

Seems the fair weather so-called liberal pundits are eating all sorts of crow too while struggling to lift up the bus that THEY threw the President under. Fortunately the steely man had already slid out from under it and away from them, and is already executing phase 2.

[treestar]

8. Poor Rmoney

And with his buddies probably trying to offshore as many jobs as they can.

[Enrique]

9. this is one argument I will never criticize Romney on

any candidate running to replace the president would do this, and it would be perfectly valid, to point out that the unemployment rate is way too high, and has been too high for far too long.

And then Obama can respond saying that his policies have prevented it from being worse, and that Mitt's policies would make it worse. And now we're having a discussion, a perfectly valid one, nothing to complain about imho.

[ProSense]

12. Right

"any candidate running to replace the president would do this"

...because the Democrat's job is give Romney a break even though he's wrong, huh?

[tridim]

10. Rmoney: "America is a shithole no matter what happens"

Killer campaign theme you got there Mittens.

[Third Doctor]

11. The guy that "harvested" companies is angry about a lower unemployment rate.

It's sad that a lot of working class people will stil vote for the asshole.

[fishwax]

13. "because his bucket list depends on it"

Great quote!

[Sheepshank]

14. I must have been out of the loop....I remember 8.1% last time

so does this make a .3% drop in a month? because that is actually a much bigger move than I have seen/noticed in some time!