Romney's flip flops: Obama "made the recession worse" ... "I didn't say that things are worse."

[jefferson_dem]

This is going to be fun. ...Watching slimy Mittens whine about how shitty things are, so we should retreat to the failed Boosh policies on steroids.

Over the last few weeks, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has argued that President Obama's policies have made the economy worse.

Here was Romney in New Hampshire on Monday:

The people of New Hampshire have waited long enough. They want to see good jobs. They want to see rising incomes. They want to see an economy that's growing again, and the president's failed. He did not cause this recession, but he made it worse.

And he said something similar at the New Hampshire debate earlier this month:

He didn't create the recession, but he made it worse and longer.

But at his press conference today in Allentown, PA -- where he was highlighting a company that had closed, after President Obama touted it benefitting from the stimulus -- Romney backtracked on the he-made-it-worse line.

When NBC producer Sue Kroll asked the former Massachusetts governor why he believes that Obama's policies have made the economy worse -- when the economy is now growing (and not shrinking like it was in 2009), when the Dow is climbing (and no longer in a free-fall like it was in '09), and when the unemployment rate is down a full percentage point from where it was in Oct. '09 -- Romney gave this answer:

I didn't say that things are worse.

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http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/30/6984657-romney-backtracks-on-argument-that-obama-made-economy-worse

[Enrique]

1. we just lost the one guy that could cut through Mitt's B.S.

[jefferson_dem]

2. HaHa!

Classic. Columbo would've turned Mittens into a blubbbering fool.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. "Just one more question..............."

With his tenacity, he'd put the hacks in the MSM to shame. RIP Peter Falk (aka "Columbo") :(

[jenmito]

3. Self-delete. n/t

[Enrique]

4. Peter Falk died last week

:-(

[jenmito]

6. I now know, which is why I deleted my post. But I agree. n/t

[Yavin4]

9. I Was Praying for a Monk/Columbo Type Collaboration

It would have been great.

[jenmito]

5. Chris Matthews covered this tonight. n/t

[jefferson_dem]

7. Dems pounce on Romney’s latest mega flip-flop - produce ad.

Dems pounce on Romney’s latest mega flip-flop
By Greg Sargent

Yesterday Mitt Romney backtracked on one of his core campaign messages — that Obama made the economy “worse” — and the Democratic National Committee has rushed out a new video documenting the flip-flop with footage.

It shows Romney claiming yesterday that he never said the economy got worse, followed by footage of Romney previously making that exact claim three times:


Until yesterday, the claim that Obama made the recession “worse” was central to Romney’s campaign message. He repeated it a number of times even after it was repeatedly debunked by independent fact checkers. Reporters had refrained from pressing him to justify the claim — until yesterday, when NBC asked him about it. That’s when he backtracked.

“Mitt Romney was caught red handed by one independent fact checker after another not telling the truth about the state of the economy,” DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse says. “Rather than admitting he was wrong and apologizing he’s now trying to deny he ever said it.”

VIDEO of AD HERE - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/dems-pounce-on-romneys-latest-mega-flip-flop/2011/03/03/AGWw0ptH_blog.html

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. Good

Now whenever he or any other Republican nominee tries to make the same stupid argument- they just need to trot out this ad. Republicans are good at disciplined talking points but they keep forgetting that in the internet age, everything they say can (and hopefully will) be used against them.

[NICO9000]

11. He's an even emptier suit than Dumbya was

And that's really saying something!