03/05/12 09:14 AM ET
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft endorsed Mitt Romney on Monday.
Ashcroft, who served under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, cited Romney’s record as governor of Massachusetts, as well as his work organizing the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, as evidence that Romney would be an “iron-willed” president.
In May 2006, based on conversations with members of Congress, key aides and lobbyists, The Hill magazine listed Ashcroft as one of top 50 “hired guns” that K Street had to offer.
Same Washington, Different Office; John Ashcroft Sets Up Shop As Well-Connected Lobbyist
By LESLIE WAYNE
Published: March 17, 2006
As attorney general, John Ashcroft was a model of moral rectitude to his conservative supporters. To his liberal detractors, he was overly self-righteous. Mr. Ashcroft sees himself simply as a man of integrity, and to him that is worth a lot.
So in the era of the Jack Abramoff scandal, Mr. Ashcroft has become a Washington lobbyist, setting himself up as something of an anti-Abramoff and marketing his insider’s knowledge of how Washington works.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0712FC35550C748DDDAA0894DE404482
“...Romney would be an “iron-willed” president...”
What is Ashcroft smoking?!
This has got to be the craziest, stupidest statement I’ve read today.
Romney is the weather cock candidate; he spins and points any dirction the political winds blow. That is hardly what one would call “iron-willed”.