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By Paul West
January 24, 2012, 8:27 p.m.
Reporting from Orlando, Fla.
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney gave a backhanded compliment to President Obama, saying after the president's State of the Union speech Tuesday night that Obama had basically adopted a lot of thoughts that weve had on the campaign trail. Unfortunately, what he says and what he has done are so dramatically different that you have to be a little surprised.
Interviewed on NBC, Romney described Obama as out of touch with the misery that many Americans are feeling in places like Florida, scene of the next GOP primary on Jan. 31.
He seems to think Americas on the right track and things are going well, said the former Massachusetts governor, going on to cite the 9.9% jobless rate, plunge in home values and high rate of foreclosures in the Sunshine State.
The idea that were on the right track is something which is very foreign to the people here, said Romney, speaking from Orlando.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-obama-swiped-gop-ideas-for-state-of-the-union-20120124,0,4994895.story
JI7
(89,182 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)Damn.
ellisonz
(27,709 posts)Romney should just give it up and self-deport.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)and it was to argue against his first idea!
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)It's a joke. American people do not like being told that things aren't going OK (even if they're not).
Mitt Romney is a fool.
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)how's all that cash you've stuffed in banks outside the country, doing?
Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)find his way out of a paperbag with a flashlight and a map.
global1
(25,168 posts)Romneycare = Obamacare.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)David__77
(23,220 posts)So he's essentially praising Obama to the heavens. More fodder for Gingrich.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)as a practical joke.....
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)for saying this!! LOL! Romney is so fake & Gingrich is just plain nuts!
DCBob
(24,689 posts)If he wants to win he's going to have to attack Obama no matter what he says.