(Governor Mitt) Romney faults Bush on war, Medicare, and ports pact

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/02/27/romney_faults_bush_on_war_medicare_and_ports_pact/

Romney faults Bush on war, Medicare, and ports pact
Does not directly attack president

WASHINGTON -- Governor Mitt Romney yesterday criticized the Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq, Medicare spending, and the pending accord to allow a Middle Eastern company operate six US ports, suggesting that President Bush was not fully engaged on an issue that has caused a furor on Capitol Hill.

In remarks on national television, Romney did not directly attack the president, who hosted the nation's governors last night at a White House dinner. But the Massachusetts governor, like other GOP lawmakers considering a run for president, carefully separated himself from a president suffering from low approval ratings in various polls and criticism from both major parties on the war and the ports arrangement.

''It's unfortunate that it wasn't raised to the top level in the White House much earlier," Romney said of the port controversy, echoing bipartisan complaints that Bush was not even aware of the situation until the middle of February, months after a state-owned company in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, announced plans to buy a British company that had been operating the ports.

''Clearly, people in America have real concern and, you know, we as a nation take very seriously matters about which technology we're going to send overseas, who's going to own certain assets, infrastructure in the United States. I think post-9/11, we're going to have to take a very careful, close look at the decisions we've made, and I think we're going to see a full review. And I think that's appropriate," Romney said.

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1. Gee Mitt, somehow I don't think that's been your tune all this time

Anyone want to do a little googling and find out just how hand-in-glove with the White House Mr. Romney has been in the past?

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3. Maybe he's getting ready to flip-flop and decide to run again after all.

There has to be some gain in it for him before he'd say anything against Shrub.

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2. Whatever you do

Don't believe a word coming out of Mitt Romney's mouth. He's a despicable lying snake. He sold himself as a supposed 'moderate' to just enough Massachusetts voters that he became governor. It didn't help that we had a problematic Dem candidate that year. Now he's trying to go national, and he'll try to sell the same load of bullshit to the rest of the country. But don't buy it. He's a vile excuse for a human being.

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4. And don't forget that then he ran against Ted Kennedy in 1994...

He claimed to be pro-choice and a champion of abortion rights. Now he's flip flopped and decided that he is anti-choice after all. He's such a lying sack of shit :grr:

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5. He's positioning himself against McCain, the supreme Bush ass kisser

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6. "2008 Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney faults Bush"

Hmmmm...Romney or Frist? Romney or McCain? Romney or the banjo-playing kid from Deliverance?

So many choices.