Posted on 08/01/2011 10:15:54 AM PDT by americanophile
As Congress grapples with finding enough votes to pass the compromise on raising the debt ceiling, Mitt Romney, the front-runner in most polls on the GOP presidential nomination sweepstakes, came out forcefully against the plan Monday.
In a prepared statement, Romney attacked President Obama and rejected the deal, which has been the only issue in Washington for the past weeks and, along with the economy, is likely to dominate presidential politics through the 2012 election.
“President Obama’s leadership failure has pushed the economy to the brink at the eleventh hour and 59th minute,” Romney stated. “While I appreciate the extraordinarily difficult situation President Obama’s lack of leadership has placed Republican members of Congress in, I personally cannot support this deal.”
Like many of his fellow candidates, Romney has been mainly silent during the ongoing debt ceiling debate, leaving it to congressional colleagues to negotiate with Democrats controlling the Senate and the White House. His conspicuous silence has drawn fire from Democrats who see him as one of the GOP’s most dangerous opponents against Obama because the former Massachusetts governor seems able to draw independent voters.
“To date, Mitt Romney has shown no ability to lead or even share where he would stand on the issue that has threatened our nation with default and dominated the news for a month,” Bill Burton, a former deputy spokesman to Obama, said in an email Sunday. Burton is a founder and strategist for Priorities USA Action, a super political action committee.
The debt-ceiling issue is especially tough for Romney, who is trying to thread the needle between conservatives, whom he needs to win the nomination, and less vocal independents whom he needs to win in November 2012.
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Figues, he waits until the last minute to see which way the wind is blowing.
NO to Romney. NEVER!
The easiest way to be on the winning side is to wait until the game is over before you pick...
That’s today.
Tomorrow Romney will talk out of the other side of his mouth.
You can fool some of the people some of............ etc.
I don’t care if it is Romney, whoever is against this deal is on the right side. Cry baby Boehner says he got 98% of what he wanted? I guess he did not want much?? We need a different leadership.
Boehner could have gotten the budget balanced if he wanted.
Only one thing matter to Obama and the Democrats. To have this go past November 2012.
His exploratory committee must have brought back the news it political feasible..
His exploratory committee must have brought back the news it was political feasible to do so..
Romney is just another prop for the big-TENT Rinos.
That going past 2012 elections bothers me the most. Get ready for 4 more years of wealth redistribution.
The chameleon speaks...
LA slimes. The LSM, trying to pick the GOP candidate once again. FAIL.
A day late and $4 trillion dollars short. What a joke. If he was serious, he would have tried to lead on the issue by speaking out. He was invisible during the past two weeks.
bttt
Mittens is a fraud.
Now he can tell seniors that the deal doesn’t protect SS and Medicare to his satisfaction. Then he can tell conservatives the cuts aren’t deep enough. Brilliant! /s
Typical of him. He will say anything to get elected, and lying isn’t a big deal if it gets you what you want in his world.
The GOP presidential field is populated by self-serving opportunists and hypocrites. Romney says he doesn’t like this deal. If he has a better one, I’d like to hear it from him.
If he has a better one, I’d like to hear it from him.
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Don’t hold your breath.
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