Posted on 09/05/2007 5:18:29 PM PDT by meandog
SALEM, N.H. - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney in an interview Monday dismissed concerns he's too nice to be a viable candidate in a vicious race, proving it by taking a swipe at yet-to-announced GOP rival Fred Thompson.
"We all get the chance to go on the talk shows. But it's not the sort of questions you get in the debates or the town meetings that I've had," Romney said in an Associated Press interview, alluding to plans by Thompson to formally announced his candidacy during a planned Wednesday night appearance on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno."
"The talk show circuit is fine, but the town meetings show you're willing to listen to people and take their questions," continued Romney...
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
You would think that the Romulan would be gentleman enough to have at least let FRed get his feet wet before commencing phasers!
A termite pitching dust bunnies at an elephant.
When Romney speaks is there ever anyone that hears him cares?
Romney’s attacks are lame.
A real man would have jumped by now. Fred’s been baby-toeing the water for months like a total p-ss.
And anyway, Romulans used Disruptors , not phasers.
Only the Mittwits.
Fred waited until the appropriate time. It’s ludicrous how long these election cycles last. They need to be moving the primaries back to the summer of ‘08, not the winter. Enough is enough. We’re going to be running the 2012 campaign in 2009 at this rate.
Fred is the answer for sure. Now, what was the question?
Hey Mitt... Fred will fight against dims and the beast... not fellow Republicans... even LIBERAL Republicans like yourself. Iraq is not a “mess” as you stated, but your shadenfraud candidacy certainly is!
You lost me when you blew the question on Iraq, during that New Hampshire town meeting. Be sure to tell your buddies ted and john hello!
LLS
Who gonna save the republic ?
LLS
Candidates attacking their rivals, what will they think of next?
“Hey Mitt... Fred will fight against dims and the beast... not fellow Republicans...”
So has Mitt.
http://www.mittromney.com/News/In-The-News/Romney_Criticizes_Reid_For_Stance_On_Iraq
June 16, 2007.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney went after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid with both rhetorical barrels Friday on Reid’s statements that the Iraq war is lost and the troop surge initiative is a failure.
“’If he’d been Valley Forge, he’d have thrown in the white towel and we’d be singing as our national anthem “God Save the Queen,”’ Romney said.
“He was referring to recent statements by Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that President Bush’s troop surge initiative ‘has failed to produce the intended results.’
“’We won the war to knock down Saddam Hussein and remove his army,’ Romney said. ‘We’re now trying to help the Iraqi people establish their own future. That’s a tough challenge.’”
Also, in early August ...
In an August 1 post about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on the washingtonpost.com blog The Trail, which the Post subsequently printed in its August 2 edition, Michael D. Shear noted attacks by Romney on Clyburn:
At each [campaign] stop, Romney also took the opportunity to slam South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, who said Monday that a positive report from Gen. David Petraeus on progress in Iraq “would be a problem for us.” Romney demanded clarification from Clyburn.
“Sometimes they say things they ought to withdraw,” he told reporters.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070805/D8QQU2N00.html
Romney goes after Obama in debate:
Romney, too, was eager to criticize Democrats. His chosen target was Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, who said recently he would be willing to meet with the leaders of Cuba, North Korea and Iran in his first year in office, and declared in a speech he would order military action to capture terrorists in Pakistan if that nation’s president did not.
“I mean, in one week he went from saying he’s going to sit down, you know, for tea, with our enemies, but then he’s going to bomb our allies,” said Romney. “I mean, he’s gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week.”
http://www.nysun.com/article/58911
NASHUA, N.H. As he campaigns here among die-hard Republicans, Mitt Romney is taking aim at the top tier of Democratic presidential candidates chiefly Senator Clinton, accusing her of advocating an economic policy in line with Karl Marx.
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