Issa endorses Mitt Romney for president

U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, endorsed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for president on Thursday, a month after assailing his chief rival in a speech in San Diego.

Romney has garnered support from a growing number of congressional Republicans as he battles with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, front-runner for the party nomination according to most polls.

“As someone who shares my background in business, Congressman Issa understands that we need to make fundamental changes in Washington,” Romney said in a statement. “I am proud to have his support and look forward to working with him as I campaign in California and work to bring jobs back to the state and strengthen the American economy.”

Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has criticized the way the Lone Star State added hundreds of thousands more jobs than any other state — a phenomena dubbed the "Texas Miracle."

“Rick Perry’s entire claim to fame is that he kicked our ass. You guys can laugh. You can let it out,” Issa said at a downtown fundraiser last month. “But his entire claim to fame is all the jobs he created. He took almost all of them from us.”

Issa also jabbed Perry for being a career politician. On Thursday, he praised Romney as the right candidate to put the state and nation’s economy on the right track.

“The country would be well served to have someone who knows how the economy works and has worked in the private sector,” Issa said in the statement. “President Obama never worked in the real economy — we can’t afford to have another president who has spent his career outside the real economy.”

You have gone off the deep end, ncal!

south40 made his position very clear.

Thank you CAluvdubya. My opinion of Romney has been made very clear. That particular poster is a vile hater who attacks anyone who doesn't like his/her hero Rick Perry. It reminds me of how liberals call anyone who doesn't like Obama a racist -- it's senseless.

I believe after last night's performance he/she has got a whole new group of FReepers to hate as from what I have read many are no longer in the Perry camp.

. . . . Tired of the media dictating to me and picking who I should vote for.

THAT is why I WILL NOT do it again. McCain made my stomach turn and I had to vote for him to try to keep the muslin out of the White House. But, I refuse to do that any more. I HAVE HAD IT with these politicians and parties who basically force me to choose between the lesser of two evils. I am sick and tired of having to do that. If it means that I actually have to refuse to vote, then I will feel better about it not voting than voting for evil one way or the other. Some folks cringe at that, but I don't care any more. I am simply sick and tired of it. Tired of having to vote for the likes of McCain. What difference would it have made to put McCain in the White House? He is an idiot also. A liberal also. A fool also. A tax and spender also. The ONLY thing I have in common with him is he is a veteran. That is it. That is where it ends. Nope. I refuse to do it again. I am done with it. If it is someone I simply refuse to vote for, then I am not voting. At least I can look myself in the mirror the next day and not throw up again.

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