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SPARKS, NV -- Mitt Romney on Friday hailed news that the economy added over 240,000 jobs in January as "good news," while blaming President Obama for making the economic recovery more difficult.
Romney, who's made criticism of the president's economic stewardship a centerpiece of his campaign, engaged a delicate political balancing act between seeming upbeat about the news, which also saw the unemployment rate drop to 8.3 percent, while making the case that Obama's leadership has made the recovery slower and more painful.
"This recovery has been slower than it should have been, people have been suffering for longer than they should have had to suffer. Will it get better? I think it’ll get better. I don’t know how long it’s going to take," Romney said at a business roundtable outside Reno. " We got good news this morning on job creation in January. I hope that continues, we get people back to work."
“But this president has not helped the process," Romney continued. "He’s hurt it."
For Romney, reacting to news as he did today is a bit like walking through a political minefield. Any economic indicators that show a stronger or swifter economy undercut Romney's message that Obama's policies have made, or are making, the economy weaker.
"This has been a tough time. And I know the president didn't cause this downturn -- this recession. But he didn't make it better either. He made it worse," Romney said. "He made it worse because instead of focusing his energy on the economy and getting people back to work, he used his mandate being elected-- he used that to put through a series of programs that he and his base and his friends thought were important but frankly made it harder for our economy to recover. And so we've suffered."
This morning's event, the first of three planned campaign stops across Nevada today, had a bit of a back-to-the-future feel. Roundtable discussions with business leaders were a regular feature of Romney's fall campaign in New Hampshire and Iowa, but have fallen out of favor as the campaign has held more rallies and large events since voting began in January.
Also hearkening back to Romney's fall campaign strategy? The frontrunner made no mention of any of the remaining GOP candidates in his hourlong campaign stop.
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now get the Federal spending under control Mr President
Buck that's still early. Let the recovery gain enough steam whereby govt. spending will not be needed.
As for Mitt, did he just misspoke? This cheap talk shows the job number sucked the air out of Mitts campaign.
Hey Mitt, what kind of advise is Bain Capital giving to AA while receiving $14m? Don't dump their pension responsibility on the tax payer.
If the president single-handedly brought peace to the Middle East, disarmed Iran, paid off the national debt, brought the unemployment rate down to 0%, eliminated all taxes on the wealthy, completely deregulated all business, folded up the EPA and OSHA while at the same time giving all of business a conscience sufficient to keep the earth clean, extend fair lending, and pay workers a living wage - all that plus everything else everyone wants, the Republicans, birthers, racists, and Christian right would STILL say he hasn't done anything for the country.
Buck,
All spending originates in the House which is currently controlled by Republicans. So as just happened last December the House approved spending that was over and above the expected US Government receipts creating yet another deficit.
So shouldn’t you be asking the Republican controlled House to get spending under control?
Am I missing something: If we have a tax code that favors private equity firms like Bain. Isn't that a form of WELFARE...Ergo doesn't that make girly man Mitt a WELFARE QUEEN? Just askin?
[Ergo doesn't that make girly man Mitt a WELFARE QUEEN?]
That'll be a BIG yes...
Well Dennis, thats what happens when you don't have a budget. Why don't we have a budget?
Listen Romney,
If it had been you in the oval office in 2009 with the policies you are trying to push now, we'd all be fighting for first dibs over street corners to sell apples on. Obama is still working to clean up W's mess no thanks to the party of "NO!" I am surely not going to allow you to push through policies that started this mess in the first place. Get lost Mittens! Obama/Biden 2012!
JFK,
Government does NOT need a budget to control spending … do they?
A budget is only a guideline. It’s funny how Congress always seems to know that we are spending too much when there has not been a budget for almost 3 years.
Just like Buck's boy Dubya did between 2001 and 2009.....
HIPOCRITS! - correction: PARTISAN HIPOCRITS!!
It does take a little time to clean up the messes the RNC=TEA politicians made, but President Obama IS gitten 'er dun. Will probably have it ALL under control after his next term is finished.
Magnificent50, so true.
Torpedo You, ditto what Mickey NY said!
JFK, Dennis is right. But JFK, ask the republican majority in the House; they're the ones who rejected President Obama's budget early in 2011, passed the Ryan Plan which wasn't even a real budget. The Senate, including republicans, rejected the Ryan Plan and then rejected the Obama Budget; the GOP Senators blocked the other efforts to pass a budget. So once again, Gridlock wins. You can't blame President Obama for that no matter how much you would like to. Remember all those "shut the government down" cries from the TP, from legislators on Capitol Hill--budget, all about the budget. If one party refuses to actually govern, refuses to compromise, insists on their way or the highway, this is what we get. I'd suggest you find another thing to nitpick because that dog won't hunt.
The plain and simple fact is the the dems are to gutless to put down on paper how bad, how extreme their agenda is.
It is simply a better political calculation to do not do one and then play the victim of circumstances.
That simple ... that pathetic.
Okay bob-1805084 whatever you say.
Dennis - A budget is only a guideline.
That's what my ex-wife use to think.
White Collar Auto
I'm guessing you didn't agree with her, thus she's your ex-wife; next time, listen to her and pray. May have worked out better. :)
Sure WCA, and Dick said deficits don't matter.
Dennis, Obama should have vetoed it!
Sure … shut the Government down !!
Pace of recovery is never fast for repubes, even though every repub but Eisenhower since hoover has passed to a Democratic administration unemployment higher than 7.2%, and only one Democrat handed unemployment over that to a repub..indeed 3/4ers of ALL private sector jobs since hoover has been created under Democratic administrations..and of course the 20 last years of republican presidents job creation are about equal to 8 years of Clinton's record...so where the hell does he think he is somehow going to have better job creation when the same trickle down bs he is slinging has so demonstrably failed to do so?
Romney is out of touch with the average American, because this guy has no idea what an average American looks like.... At $57,000.00 A DAY income, from something you did years ago, is not an average persons experience...
He likes to fire people, OK. He's unemployed, OK. He does his own laundry, OK that I can't buy... This guy is a sham... Any one know why he keeps his hundreds of millions in bank accounts outside this country? I thought only crooks and drug runners did stuff like that...
it's a free country terry
Maybe, Willard, you need to go talk to your
richjob creator buddies. Seems like they haven't been doing their jobs....but according to the SuperPAC FEC reports it looks like a few of them had some spare change lying around to dump into the Election Slush Funds.
Da Noid
...but according to the SuperPAC FEC reports it looks like a few of them had some spare change lying around to dump into the Election Slush Funds.
Tomorrow Willard will change it; maybe even be today.
Would'a, could'a, should'a...
Romney can't use this argument if the opposite's not also true. We would have been a lot WORSE off if not for the stimulus spending.
Thanks Ursula, I'm using that one on my brother tonite.
Wonder what part of G "NO" P Romney didn't understand?
Obama stated / projected / promised / whatever that if we gave him almost a trillion, unemployment would not exceed 8%.
Fact.
We spent a trillion and unemployment went to 10.1% - worse than Obama's worst case scenario!
Fact.
Three years later, after stimulus after stimulus .... now almost FIVE trillion more in deficit spending ..... unemployment is at at a real rate (according to the CBO) of almost 10%!
Fact.
As measured by economic indicators and in historical context of the 11 recessions since .... this is the worst recovery since the Great Depression.
Fact.
Sorry Ursula .... there is no excuse.
bob-180,
“Obama stated / projected / promised / whatever that if we gave him almost a trillion, unemployment would not exceed 8%.”
FACT – President Obama never said that
“We spent a trillion and unemployment went to 10.1% - worse than Obama's worst case scenario!”
FACT – the GDP shrinkage was at -8.5%. It was twice the depth that was originally calculated.
“As measured by economic indicators and in historical context of the 11 recessions since .... this is the worst recovery since the Great Depression.”
FACT – This is also the worst recession in depth since the Great Depression by several negative GDP percentage points.
Dennis,
I realize Backhouse is too willfully stupid to not understand, to intentionally lie ... but now you?
Or are you intentionally splitting hairs between Obama's mouth and his mouthpieces in an effort to deceive?
The recession was over 2 1/2 years ago ... June 2009.
This has been a supposed "recovery" since.
bob-180,
The end of the Great Depression was in the mid-1930's but the country didn't recover until the mid-1940's about 15 or 16 years after the start.
Two years ago the COB projected that the economy and jobs wouldn't fully recover for about 7 or 8 years (2017-18).
Bob recessions end as soon as the gdp reverses that is it, it doesn't take into account the crippling loss of -9% of GDP, and the loss of potential gdp , estimated to be about 5 triliion dollars.Losing 9% of GDP is the Fukushima of recessions. Repub Hoover dealt wth it by letting 7% unemployment turn into 35% unemployment, and let -9% GdP turn into -28% GDP in four agonizing 3years.Bush inherited unemployment rate at 4.2%, he left with it at 7.8%...A 3.6% loss on his already meager 1.1 million net job creation compared to 23 million under Clinton.
President Obama inherited UE .2% shy of 8% ... and despite bearing most of the Lasting damage of the Bush improvised explosive economy, unemployment reached only 2.2% higher than that before being .7 above what he inherited in jan 2009, and its dropping. GDP grew 1.5 trillion. This is what recovery takes. Tin Ear Romney nor repubs get that, because they only cause crisis' of the magnitude Bush left, they never fix them...
Dennis, Columbus, Ohio
Interesting that Bob doesn't see the pattern in the events he describes in his own sentence: The deeper the recession, the longer the recovery. The Bush Recession is the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, so naturally the recovery has been slow, but not as slow as the decade it took to get out of the Great Depression.
Economists know all this. And of course, Willard Mittens Romney knows it too, but he's counting on people being dim-witted and gullible enough to fall for his attempts to blame Obama.
Elect, Mitt! Mitt can fire everybody, bankrupt SSN, plunder more pensions, and collect more bonuses for himself and his friends in 1/100 of the 1%. Its all about the money and Mitt and his friends know how to plunder the Money to take it from the many and concentrate it all in the hands of the very few. If you are worried about this week's groceries or this month's electric bill or mortgage bill, you don't have any business being concerned about what Mitt will do with politics.
Just trust him.
Add to it he wants your property foreclosed on so it can be bought by venture capitalists and turned into rentals. The only difference between Romney and a socialist is Romney wants all property owned by the 1% for purposes of renting to the 99%. At least in socialism, all property is government owned and available to all citizens.
Romney as I stated before
President Obama has 3.3 million jobs created in 3 years. You as Governor of Mass. 3,964 jobs created in 4 years. You do the math!!
President Obama 2012
You don't want to talk about Bain Capital!! Do you?
President Obama has 3.3 million jobs created in 3 years. You as Governor of Mass. 3,964 jobs created in 4 years. You do the math!!
That's just a straight out lie. Google how many were employed on bush's last day in office and how many are employed today.
It's TWO MILLION less.
Tommy, 3.7 million jobs have been created in President Obama's 3 years.
Rob, Bush created 3 million jobs in 8 years. As for the rest of your comment--reality check, we were in a near Depression when Bush left office--he'd been losing jobs since Dec 2007.
Thank you for the correction on President Obama numbers! I do not want to short the President's numbers!!
Google!! Rob, I am a researcher by trade, and any good researcher does not rely on just Google!!
Romney wrote an Op Ed saying GM should have been allowed to go bankrupt - and how would that have speeded up the recovery? The Republicans have fought job creation steps for three years - they wanted to let teachers and cops get laid off, calling the money sent to the states to keep people employed a "sugar high." I mean really, what has Romney suggested he could do that would create jobs?
Amy, you really need to stay out of the auto Industry discussion.
You haven't got a clue.
I have explained it several times here.
Romney was right.
White Collar,
How is Romney right? Romney can't prove that Obama slowed down the recovery...there is no data he can present to prove such a thing...and that's why he is using it as a stump line without providing that adequate proof.
The CBO agrees that Obama's stimulus both slowed down the recession and helped to get us out of it quicker which debunks what Romney is saying. I would trust the CBO before a grasping candidate.
Well yeah you've gave your opinion on the subject many times. Now how many times have you been right about things? From what I've read, Amy may be a little more tuned in than you.
Assuming you're in the auto industry as your avatar suggests, would you still have a job if they went bankrupt? Hmmm, you might just work for Ford.
Vipp, since you have such faith in the CBO have you seen their latest projections?
King, you are showing willful ignorance on the auto industry.
Both GM and Chrysler DID go bankrupt. After the Bailouts.
No I do not work for Ford. Too bad though, those guys are getting huge Profit Sharing checks.
You are so right, Amy---where would we be if GM had failed, along with all of its suppliers? One thing Mitt is right about is that the recovery could have been faster but he doesn't explain that it hasn't been faster because of Republican obstructionism. The GOP---keeping millions out of work to cost one man his job.
Yeah, I guess I should have said "closed their doors" as that is the sentiment I was trying to project. That would have been more to the point. So would you still have a job if they had closed their doors?
[Amy, you really need to stay out of the auto Industry discussion.]
WhiteCollarCriminal,
Maybe it is YOU that needs to stay out of "auto industry" discussions...it's clear that you aren't qualified to comment.
But you are, however, absolutely qualified to have an opinion, just like Amy.
But I do sense the desperation in your posts...that is very clear.
King, The very thought that GM and Chrysler would have ceased to exist is simply sophomoric.
WCA said he's explained this several times. Shouldn't that tell you we're not buying that. We go by real figures, datas or call it detailed analysis.
We sure see the numbers with Obama but we're not seeing yours. Your type bankruptcy would have had a more severe impact on the economy.
Ring Around The collar: The GM Bankruptcy was "managed." Both labor and management made significant concessions to the government in exchange for loan guarantees. It was a good business decision. Perhaps you preferred to liquidate the assets and sell the machine tools, robot and other technology to China?..It is transparently obvious that you have no knowledge of manufacturing or supply chains. Ignorance in defense of your position is no excuse! Then again you know what a "machine tool" is now don't you?
Disappointed in you WCA or should I say so typical of you WCA? Sophmoric, wilfull ignorance, you resort to implying that everyone but you is wrong but you are the one that can't offer any support for his own opinions. Why am I not surprised?
Micky & Amy - WCO is probably just a Nissan or Toyota drone wishing he had the benefits at GM, Chrysler or Ford. You guys are right, WCO is not, never make me believe he works for an American Auto maker, and if it is for one of those foreign car mfgrs - who cares? Not me, I'm sure not buying one, got a great Ford truck and an even better Dodge Intrepid, several years old, paid for, both start right up everytime and neither are as bad on the gas as one might expect. Some folks just can't take good news and I'm beginnng to think WCO is one of them.
Now we can all give a sigh of relief - the Donald has finally backed Mittens, can anyone spell ROLAIDS? haha, of course they think it is best to let all the homeowners lose their homes so they be turned into apartments - it's what the donald does for a living.
From Mlive.com : Nov 20, 2008:
Romney says management must go, new labor agreements struck and the companies radically restructured through a "managed bankruptcy."
Do you guys get it , yet?
TorpedoYou
WCA wants us to believe Romney way is better even when he's flip flopped on the issue several times. Take a look at AA and see how Bain Capital is screwing them through bankruptcy while wanting to dump their pension responsibility on the tax payer. We get it WCA we just not buying it. Romney's Bain Capital is walking away with AA's $14M while 13,000 workers are about loosing their pensions.
Glad to here you have a Dodge Intrepid union - what year? I helped design the Exterior of that vehicle. Starting back in 1993 with the First Edition through the last model year. In fact at Chrysler it was code named the LH. Stood for Last Hope. Chrysler stock was around $9 and the company was in deep trouble. But the Cab Forward designs pioneered by John Gale of the Design Studio, along with improved engineering and quality brought the company back, once again, from the so-called brink.
Did you know that car is built in Canada?
Sorry want to make sure I credit Tom Gale not John Gale with the Styling.
So I guess that that Gubment bailout of Chrysler was OK in the 70's and 80's was OK? Right WCA!
So WCA, if Romney was right about the "managed bankruptcy", why do you deride the Obama administration for performing the same exact thing?
WhiteCollarCriminal,
Nice cut n' paste from Wikipedia...
WCA was probably the coffee boy. But hey, who am I to take away his dream...
...dare to dream, WhiteCollar...dare to dream...
[So WCA, if Romney was right about the "managed bankruptcy", why do you deride the Obama administration for performing the same exact thing?]
Because he can...
Nah Torpedo they froze pensions years ago and I am years away from being eligible.
King, one last time.
Romney wanted the car companies to go through a managed bankruptcy without exposing the taxpayers to the bailouts.
The companies got the money burned through it and filed for Bankruptcy anyway. All the loans did was delay the inevitable.
For the record it was not just Obamas fault. Bush started the whole thing with TARP.
Please Mickey go to Wikipedia and "cut and paste" my comment.
You are nothing if not down right entertaining with your ignorance.
Your continued assumptions regarding peoples professions here seem to indicate a disenchantment with whatever your lot in life may be.
So WCA, if Romney was right about the "managed bankruptcy", why do you deride the Obama administration for performing the same exact thing
Because taxpayers are still owed 50 billion dollars. If GM went through a proper managed bankrupcy the fat cat union greed heads would have eaten it instead of joe taxpayer.
WhiteCollarCriminal,
Are you still pissed off that you got your ass handed to you the other day? Geeze, dude...let it go already...
...just let...it...go.
OK WCA: Chrysler Bailout in 1979-1983 (That be Ronnie Raygunz) GOOD! (Saved your job down the road most likely). GM, Chrysler managed bankruptcy circa 2008-2009 BAD. OK I get it now...Sorry bud but you have been twisted like a pretzel like Romney will...You need to let this one go!
And how long did it take Chrysler to pay back the billions it borrowed from the gubment in the 80's
Jeez Rob and WCA, no wonder you guys are so dizzy, what with all that circular logic you employ.
Torpedo I was in Junior High in 1979 so I really can't comment on that.
One thing is for sure though, Chrysler seemed to thrive on chaos. It always seemed to take a crisis to get the management back on track.
My guess is those days are over though, now that Chrysler is really an Italian car company.
And once again, Mickey can't answer the bell.
What a maroon.......
king, kindly explain the circular logic.
Do you even know what circular logic means?
You know what, children? It's history. Done. Whether you liked the bailout out or not, it is done. Finished. If that is one of the issues that influences your vote in November - great, terrific, 100% behind you.
For myself, I preferred the automobile bailout to the banks and Wall Street - but hey, my opinion here. Of course, my dad worked at International Harvester for many years (they made trucks). I spent my working life in the automotive industry - GM to be precise. So, that colors my view. I freely admit it.
But, as of now, all the wouldas and shouldas need to stop. Settle it in November with your vote.
And for God's sake, grow up and stop your name calling!
oh phine, I was just having some fun.
It is disappointing when confronted with facts people still won't listen.
But you are right, no sense in beating a dead horse.
I am afraid though that the Romney position, while history, will not go away for at least a month.
The Michigan primary is on Feb 28th and I'll tell you what, starting today I will keep track, as best I can of how many stories First Read runs on it trying to distort his comments.
Where abouts did you work at GM? Warren?
Have a great weekend. Pats 24 Giants 14. Going with a Michigan Man - Tom Brady.
Amy, good point. Saving the auto industry from sudden death saved over a million auto worker jobs, not to mention the support jobs. Romney talks a lot but says little.
Rob, to put it nicely, you don't know what you're talking about. It was a managed bankruptcy, and union workers gave up many concessions, including taking pay cuts, as part of the deal. Incidentally, American Airlines has declared a "proper managed bankruptcy" and guess what--the pensions they're throwing out will be thrown into the government agency at taxpayer expense. GM, Chrysler, under the "managed bankruptcy" of the Obama administration, the tax payer did NOT pick up the burden of the auto industry's pension plans. What is sick about your argument, Rob, is the "stick it to the union worker" attitude or as Newt Gingrich said, pit one American against another--it's something conservative politicians have been selling for 30 years and people like you, keep buying it. They are your neighbors, your friends, your fellow citizens not some political pawn to be dealt a death blow.
WCA,
I was white collar (LOL). Worked the Southeast Cadillac Motor Car Division and then, when they downsized, transferred to GMAC/Jacksonville. I started in dealerships - actually one of the first women car salesperson.
My dad worked the line at IH in Ohio. That's where I got my love for the auto industry. Still love it! And have never ever owned anything but American made!
And, sorry to go against you here, but you know around here it is the old "Any body But (fill in the blank)? Well I am that way about Tom Brady. He has beat up my teams too often! LOL
phine - I was white collar...
Now that made me laugh! (because of the irony not the position BTW)
Michigan v Michigan State in BIG 10 B-ball on Sunday to start the day.Gonna be a couch potato weekend!
Rob, is the "stick it to the union worker" attitude
Jody,
As a nursing home administrator with the assistance of an expensive attorney I've had the displeasure of having to negotiate a union contract. I've seen unions go to the wall trying to reinstate workers that abused elderly patients in my care. Sorry to say I'm not a fan. The prior management in the facility did a very poor job in communicating with the staff and they reached out for a voice to represent them. I didn't fault them for that. But I did fault the union who did zero except try to excuse bad behavior of a few and bullied those that just wanted to do their job and go home. Staff received basically zero in terms of better pay and actually got an inferior benefit package. But the union got their 2% of payroll and the facility attorney got about 200k that came directly from patient care resources. The staff decertified two years later.
WCA all companies will eventually cease to exist over time ... GM seems to be doing just fine ... but seeing as you are younger than I, don't bother to report back in lets say 20 years.
Just imagine if Mitt's cohorts hadn't been blocking spending on repairing roads, bridges and schools. Six percent unemployment, anyone? Oh wait, we have to save that money for blowing up Iran. Hopefully, November will sweep the obstructionists out of the Congress.
The cognitive dissonance coming from the Republican Party is palpable. Is there no glass half full for them?
Not only is their glass half empty, the Democrats stole the half and wasted it on the poor.
I'm kinda disappointed with the new Republican talking point: "Obama's slowing the recovery." Would've thought they could be more creative than that. Then again, they got caught with their pants down with the better than expected jobs numbers. But, of course, get ready for the "spending too much" crap to be flung around.
Pat---I think they like the term "slow" recovery because then if there is a down month, as there well could be, they can also blame that on President Obama.
Where was Romney when Bush and the Republican controlled Congress were destroying the economy?
Why didn't Romney speak up when they the Republicans allowed banks to pick their own regulator?
I guess that's because Willard the Weasel was happy to take money from the middle class and send them to the poor house.
Dan, after he finished destroying profitable companies at Bain, he went campaigning for President.
Mitt Romney in his own words, "I'm not concerned about the very poor....", I'm just concerned that,darn it, President Obama is succeeding so I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll....point out it coulda happened faster, it shoulda happened quicker and never mind that my own party sat on their collective backsides to make help America, oh, shouldn't have said that last part. That's really what Mitt Romney said.
Then tomorrow Mitt will say that he "misspoke" and that he has said it sort of like that but in a different way many times before and no one ever said anything so it was OK what he really meant to say.
SF, listening to Romney try to explain he "misspoke" after explaining he said what he said but everyone took it out of context, he reminds me of a pin ball bouncing around.
When no jobs it's president's fault but it's not recovering it's not??
Prime example why rich kids like Mitt shouldn't be decision makers for middle class is Mike Bloomberg, He made NYC unaffordable for middle class but for millionaires like him. He is more interested in nice parks bicycle lanes, beauty of the city than school teachers for average kids. Closed more schools, etc..Mitt will do the same. We spend $2.00 on a loaf of bread in super market they spend $200.00 for it in a luxury bakery. If Mitt class get elected, we are done..
The New York city schoolteachers are all making 100K in a eductaion system that is a massive failure ... and half are sitting around doing nothing and cant be fired, thanks to the crooked unions.
And you blame Mitt Romney? What you smoking?
Source of this lie? And it is a lie.
"schoolteachers are all making 100K in a eductaion system", What's wrong people making 100k educating our children now the schools are closed and you saved 100K per person and less teachers. We pay taxes to pay teachers not to make Bloomberg fantasy parks. in 10 years, we will have beautiful parks but dumb children. Don't blame jobs getting outsourced to somewhere else.
"And you blame Mitt Romney? What you smoking?" did I blame Mitt for that? I said Bloomberg did it and if people like Mitt/Bloomberg get elected what's happening in NYC can be a problem of the whole US..
You're a prime example why we need schools.
Let’s see, the Donald said about Willard.
Trump told Daily Beast columnist Meghan McCain that Romney is “going to lose” because he can’t connect with voters. “No, he’s going to lose. He doesn’t resonate, you know? Or he would have won last time, in all fairness to your father! He was scheduled to win last time, and he didn’t because your father outdid him. You understand. I watched [Romney] make a speech, and it was all these little trivial statements.”
– Trump told CNN that Romney killed jobs at Bain Capital. “Mitt Romney is basically a small business guy.” “He walked away with some money from a very good company that he didn’t create. He worked there, he didn’t create. He would buy companies, he’d close companies, he’d get rid of jobs.”
– Trump slammed Romney’s record as governor on ABC. “If you look at his record as governor, it wasn’t totally stellar. His job production was not great at all. In fact, it was the third worst in the nation. There are some pretty negative things with respect to Mitt Romney, which frankly he’s going to have to overcome.”
As the saying goes, with friends like that, who needs enemies. Perhaps that is why Romney was glad to get Trumps endorsement, so he could keep his enemy close.
Job1, glad you posted this. I saw clips late yesterday of Trump saying these and other things about Romney. Apparently, Romney never heard the comments or his staff ignored them in their haste to embrace The Donald. More gifts to the Obama campaign, as GBM said, tied with a pretty bow.
No, Mitt accepted the Trump nomination because he knew that if he turned it down Newt would be offered it next.
See, that's the thing about "The Donald", he's not interested in anything other than PUBLICITY! Be it good publicity or bad publicity it doesn't matter to him. He offered his "Endorsement" to Romney first, but I betcha he was already to call up Newt if Romney turned him down.
Lest we forget that Mitt chose to sneak into Trumps office earlier this year in order to avoid being photographed by the media.
America - One more Romney Scam away from another WDisaster!
The United States of America - Name one government program, just one that not's a part of the Military-Industrial Complex, supported by any Republican Politician. Who is the enemy of the government of the USA?
For having won the Florida primary, it is truly stunning how bad a week Romney is having. First the 'very poor' remark, then Trump's endorsement (the optics were awful) and now having to comment on an economic recovery presided over by President Obama.
He's truly sidelined now.
the optics were awful
Those damned optics; too bad that our economic reality is doubly awful. Most voters are concerned with reality not optics. spin spin spin but just don't fall down. I wouldn't want you to hurt yourself.
Adding to Mitt's bad week is the whole Susan G. Komen Foundation debacle---it is partisan politics at work and Mitt's party is on the side of wanting to stop an organization from getting grants to help poor women detect breast cancer. Can't call that a good story for his party base.
Who cares what Ward Cleaver(Mitt Romney) thinks. Everyone knows if he was elected he'd be a puppet for the Koch brothers and Trump. He can't spell the economy the rest of us deal with everyday. He does not have a clue how to create jobs or his record would have already reflected that. Office max, domino pizza and the olympics is not the same as teachers, firemen, police, government workers, recent college graduates, middle-agers to poor to retire, trademen, construction workers. oh, right, he doesn't care about the very poor, the working poor, the middleclass.
He should be laughed off the stump
r.austin,
Amen
"Any economic indicators that show a stronger or swifter economy undercut Romney's message that Obama's policies have made, or are making, the economy weaker."
Funny how that works. The private economy has been in the toilet for 3 years under Obama policies, and somehow , MSNBC doesnt think that "undercut" Obama's message....
Bad news: blame Bush, point fingers
Good news: take all the credit!
Mittens must still have "GLITTER" in his hair and in his eyes...He can't think (like he ever could) straight.
All that GLITTERS Flip-flop is not golden...
Nothing is slow about the economic "Greed" of the "Romulian." That's for sure! The "Romulian" is at a fast pace in hiding his past taxes since the 1980's. The "Romulian" wanted the Auto Industry to go into bankruptcy at a fast pace, and he wants the home foreclosures rate to go at an even faster pace. The "Bain Trained" CEO of Bain Capitlal has NO idea of what the Middle Class is economically suffering through. The "Romulian" has NO clue who the Working Poor are, and he made it very clear that he does NOT care. Where is the "Romulian's" jobs plan?? Where is the "Romulian's" tax plan?? Where is the "Romulian's trade policies?? How does the "Romulian" define an "Economic Safety Net??" America needs specifics from the GOP/RNC Clowns on these polices, and NO real/fair solutions of their own.