MUST SEE: Romney Undercuts His Own Critique of Obama in 2006 Video!!!

[napkinz]

by Daniel Stone Jul 6, 2012 12:09 PM EDT


Mitt Romney says Obama shouldn’t blame his predecessor for the poor economy. But a newly uncovered video shows Romney tried the same thing in 2006.

If Mitt Romney had to boil down his chief critique of President Obama’s first term in office, it would be something like this: “Obama has had three years to turn the economy around, and he hasn’t done it.” He used nearly those exact words in New Hampshire on Friday morning, when he responded to new uninspiring jobs data from June, when private sector job growth lagged and the unemployment rate stayed stubbornly at 8.2 percent. “The president’s policies have clearly not been successful,” Romney said.

He also hasn’t bought Obama’s usual retort, that the economy had lost as many as 775,000 jobs each month when he took office, and that he shouldn’t be blamed for that period. “Maybe he’ll say, ‘Oh, it’s the Republicans,’” Romney said at a campaign stop in Wisconsin last month, “but you know…he gets full credit or blame for what’s happened in this economy.”

However, Romney appears to have undercut his own critique. Not now, but back in 2006, when Romney was defending his own economic record as governor of Massachusetts. The statements were released on Thursday night in a video by American Bridge, a liberal political action committee that does opposition research. At a press conference in the statehouse in Boston, here’s what Romney said:

“I came in and the jobs had been just falling, like off a cliff. I came in and they kept falling for 11 months and then we turned around and we’re coming back,” Romney said. “And that’s progress. And if you’re going to suggest to me that somehow the day I got elected, somehow jobs should immediately turn around. Why, that would be silly. It takes a while to get things turned around. We were in a recession, we were losing jobs every month, we’ve turned around.”

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/06/romney-undercuts-his-own-critique-of-obama-in-2006-video.html

[lumpy]

1. 'Bee bee Eyes' expresses in this video what every thinking voter knows.

It takes time (and cooperation) to bring things around to normalcy.

[jjewell]

2. God bless video recording!

Mitt Romney is kicking Mitt Romney's ass... lol

[TexasLeftist]

3. Right on cue

So glad American Bridge coordinated this one with the jobs report. But where is the Obama campaign. The RNC wastes no time taking footage like this and making it into an ad. Time to fight DIRTY!!

[napkinz]

4. Romney undercuts his message re healthcare mandate ...

[BSUbluNorange]

5. PRICELESS!!!!

I think Obama should do a voice over on this video for a web ad

[Vanje]

10. Hi BSUbluNorange!

Are you an Idahoan?


We potato-staters are quite rare at DU .

welcome!

[BSUbluNorange]

15. I am a Gem...stater :)

Thanks for the shoutout!

[EvolveOrConvolve]

12. Yo!

Welcome from another BSU fan!

[MADem]

6. RMoney is like a blueberry patch during pickin' season!

There is so MUCH material out there...enough to make pie for everyone!

[napkinz]

7. I like pie!

recognize the logo?

[MADem]

8. Now that there is some good eatin! nt

[napkinz]

9. Yummy!

[MADem]

11. They look like they are eyeing the same slice! nt

[napkinz]

13. kick

nt

[Proles]

14. It's amazing. Basically every argument he has used against Obama

can be turned against him by looking at what he said or done as Governor.

The thing is, he obviously knows it too.