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by Jed Lewison
Mitt Romney, delivering a mouthful of spaghetti logic in lieu of a campaign message:
When Mitt Romney launched his campaign, he said the reason he was running was that the economy was in dire straits and America needed his skills as a job creator to get back on track. Then Newt Gingrich challenged his skills as a job creator and he said anybody who attacked his business experience was an enemy of free enterprise. Now he says the economy is coming back, but it's President Obama's fault that it took so long.
According to Romney, the reason the economy is coming back is that it "always comes back after a recession"no matter what the president does. How does he square that with his claim that America needs a president with his (claimed) experience as a job creator? He doesn't. He simply makes the vacuous claim that if it weren't for President Obama, the economy would have recovered more quickly, as if he took a bad situation and made it worse.
Actually, President Obama took an extraordinarily bad recession and stopped it from becoming a second Great Depression. When he took office we were losing nearly one million jobs per month. We've now had the best year of private sector job growth in the past five years. In fact, President Obama in just three years has a better private sector job growth record than George W. Bush had in eight years. (And under Mitt Romney, Massachusetts ranked 47th.)
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Please, buy Rmoney a clue.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)for Rmoney's constantly reinvented and always nonsensical talking point.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)gov public health care.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Because the economy is going to come back anyway? Hey, Rmoney has Seamus found his way home yet?
endorsing Obama: Re-elect Obama because the economy is going to rebound anyway.
Johonny
(20,851 posts)needs even more. how much more money does the man need? He has enough to already buy the Republican nomination. Is the answer the economy needs to be good enough for Mitt to buy the office of President? Until then the economy is terrible. If the only thing keeping Mitt from being rich enough to buy the White House is Obama's economic policies, give me more Obama economic policies.
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)JBoy
(8,021 posts)And as a really rich guy, he's got lots of suits.
gulliver
(13,186 posts)Bush and Cheney went hog wild on Republican principles and look what happened. How is Romney going to explain how his tax cuts are different from Bush's, how his small government talk is different, how his deregulation and "pro-business" stances are different? How is Romney going to claim to be any different from Bush when Bush was doing his level best to be the porterhouse and steak fries of conservative governance?
Everything Romney has to say Bush said before him.