Mitt Romney Suggests There's 'Personal Beef' Between Barack Obama And Bill Clinton

Source: Huffington Post

Mitt Romney has spent the past few weeks portraying President Barack Obama as an "old-school liberal" so out of touch with modern realities that he's a dinosaur even within his own party. To that point, he's tried in several recent speeches to pit the president against Bill Clinton, who famously declared that the era of big government was over during his administration.

Addressing a crowd in Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday, Romney took that divide-and-conquer effort to a more gossipy level, suggesting that the president was ignoring Clinton's approach out of some personal animus with the man. The campaign's prepared remark included the following:

Even a former McGovern campaign worker like President Clinton was signaling to his own Party that Democrats should no longer try to govern by proposing a new program for every problem. President Obama tucked away the Clinton doctrine in his large drawer of discarded ideas, along with transparency and bipartisanship. It’s enough to make you wonder if maybe it was a personal beef with the Clintons ... but really it runs much deeper.

The idea that there is "beef" between the two Democrats echoes a commonly trotted out theory (offered most recently in Ed Klein's controversial new Obama book) that the Clintons and Obama have mutual disdain and distrust for one another dating back to the 2008 primary. It's the same tactic that Sen. John McCain used against Obama, unsuccessfully, after that primary ended.

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Fuck you, Rmoney. And Rove too. This is a classic Rove trick to separate a candidate from his best boosters.

Fuck you, Mittens. And Ham Rove.