Romney tells Iowa voters he’ll ‘just have to come down hard’ on Obama in debates

Source: Des Moines Register

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told Iowans in a telephone conference call tonight that he’ll have to “come down hard” on President Obama in the upcoming debates about claims in campaign advertising.

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Romney thanked Stan for bringing the ads to his attention, as if he hadn’t heard about them.

“So I appreciate, Stan, your making me aware of those ads. I know our team, our campaign team sees what he has out there but we may need to go out there and refute what he is saying,” Romney said, referring to President Obama.

“Of course, I get the chance in the debate to do that as well. He’ll probably reiterate some of those arguments and those statements and I’ll just have to come down hard and say, ‘Mr. President, you know that’s not true.’ And you hope to see something better than that from the person who’s serving as president of the United States,…” Romney said.

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Good article from the Register's political columnist, Kathie Obradovich.

Romney told "Stan from Sioux City" that he would "have no cut whatsoever in funding or changes in programs for either Social Security or Medicare." This followed Romney telling "“Betty from Marshalltown,” who said she was in a nursing home, that there'd be no changes for her, but changes for younger people.

The first questions came from "Doug in Dubuque" who said he was a Teamster and a Romney backer, but wanted more details about what Romney would do.

Romney's answer to that was to tell Doug to buy a copy of his book "Believe in America" to get his 59-point plan.

"The thing is," Obradovich writes, "the details in Romney’s 59-point plan are the not the same details that media outlets keep talking about that are missing from Romney’s plans."

She concludes, "Romney tonight passed up another chance to offer more specifics about his tax and Medicare plans. Maybe we’ll have to wait and see who really comes down hard in the debates."