Debbie Wasserman Schultz: [Rationale] Of Romney Campaign 'Cratering'

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Rational (sic) Of Romney Campaign 'Cratering'

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement on the South Carolina primary results:

“If tonight proved one thing, it's that the central rationale of Mitt Romney’s campaign is cratering. He came into South Carolina with a 20 point lead - a state where jobs and the economy is the number one issue - and the candidate who hung his entire candidacy on these issues, Mitt Romney, saw his support collapse.

“Why? Because Mitt Romney's been exposed as being out of touch with the middle class, and voters are seeing that he lives by another set of rules. He’s refused to level with voters, and now he’s in trouble. Anyone who goes into a state with a significant double digit lead yet ends up losing that support in a week, is someone who is failing to connect.

“Voters in South Carolina saw that Mitt Romney has no core values, and that he will say anything to get elected. He’s been exposed as having plans and policies that would keep his taxes low, and make them even lower, while doing nothing for the middle class. The people of South Carolina also began to see what Romney’s brand of free enterprise really is: destroying companies and jobs to enrich himself while working families suffer. Tonight, they rejected it. At the end of the day, voters want someone they can trust, who shares their vision and who understands their plight. And they are finding that Mitt Romney is not that person.

“Regardless of who becomes the Republican nominee, all of the candidates in the race support the failed policies of the past that drove us to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. That’s not what the American people want, and that’s why they know that the clear choice in this election is President Obama.”

Wasserman Schultz was spotted at Newt’s victory party earlier tonight.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/4467

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Goes To Newt's Election Party
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002198363



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[flamingdem]

1. So when Obama sung Al Greene yesterday

I thought: he knows things are very much going his way!
So happy he's singing.

What a week.

[juajen]

4. If he keeps on singing, he will be a shoo-in. Love me some Al Green.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. I heard she was at Newt's bash!

Complete with the

[Warpy]

3. He also didn't have a snowball's chance in hell in Dixie

although those good ole boys will likely fall into line and vote for him if he's the nominee.

If they don't, it will be the final demise of Nixon's southern strategy and the party will be under orders to run a southern Protestant if they can find one who can talk or a Catholic by marriage like Gingrich if they can't.

In any case, it might also signal the end of the love affair between the bigwigs in Salt Lake city and the GOP.

The cracks have been showing for a very long time in the unholy coalitions that have allowed the GOP to ruin this country's economy over the last 30+ years. It's high time they turned into the chasms they were before Nixon and then Reagan came along.