Posted on 11/24/2012 9:15:02 PM PST by Lancey Howard
Former senior aides to Mitt Romney have hit back at the 'craven hypocrites' in the Republican party who just days before the election were clamouring for jobs in a Romney administration and are now belittling him.
'There were one or two well-known figures who were late committing to support him, were the most eager to curry favour when it looked like we would win and are now out there trashing the governor.
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But the other senior adviser, who declined to be named when criticising senior Republicans, singled out Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Newt Gingrich as among those who had been quickest to lambast Romney. After Romney told donors on a post-election conference call that many voted for President Obama because he had offered them 'gifts', Jindal said Romney's comments were 'absolutely wrong'. He said: 'We have got to stop dividing American voters. We need to go after 100 per cent of the votes, not 53 per cent - we need to go after every single vote.'
That was a reference to Romney's notorious '47 per cent' comments in which he said that proportion of voters was dependent on government and would inevitably back a Democrat.
Gingrich called the 'gifts' comments 'nuts' and 'insulting' to voters.
The anonymous adviser said: 'Bobby Jindal wanted very, very much to be Vice President. He appeared publicly with Governor Romney after the 47 per cent comments, which the governor himself said were totally wrong. 'Newt Gingrich made it clear to us he wanted to be part of a Romney administration. 'Both these guys - and others - were the governor's best friend when it seemed he was on the brink of becoming our 45th President. Now they're calling him a bum. Real profiles in courage.'
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Obama’s happiest day was when Bohner took the House from Pelosi and then Obama had the perfect scape-goat for everything that goes wrong.
Actually if the economy really crashes under Obama’s second term then that might get Republicans ‘back in the game’. But the Republicans gotta stop acting like they are in charge for it to work.
One of the advantages O had against R was that voters saw the Obama as inheriting a bad economy (from Republicans) and they thought it was getting better. So if Obama could be ‘seen’ as getting his way and the economy crashes then Republicans got a good argument.
No, Bohner cannot beat Dems by delaying the crash until the next POTUS
” Obamas happiest day was when Bohner took the House from Pelosi and then Obama had the perfect scape-goat for everything that goes wrong.”
STONE COLD FACT !!
Agree.
From everything I’ve read about him, he’s a decent, honorable man. So unlike his opponent.
Romney was not my first choice in the primaries, but I fully supported him once he had the nomination. I think he ran an excellent campaign and he would have been a darned good President.
I just found these
It should be obvious that Republicans taking the House will help Obama the next two years politically as with Clinton. How much we can't know. There is no way he could win re-election with the current congress
Clinton: Losing House Would Help Obama in 2012 CBS News ^ | Posted here on Monday, September 20, 2010 comment #22
Ironically if Republicans won both houses of congress this year, that would help Obama in 2012.
Obama Is in the Jaws of Political Death: Can He Survive? Yahoo News ^ Posted here on Monday, October 11, 2010 comment #14
Although after this I posted that I thought that taking the House alone would not get Republicans in trouble, that they would be smart enough make voters think that O was the one in charge screwing things up, that's what holding any hope in them brings you.
Not just Romney. Boehner and company are meeting behind closed doors (funny how the GOP leaders seem to have the same goals and tactics as Dems) to plan our fate, even as we speak.
” Not just Romney. Boehner and company are meeting behind closed doors (funny how the GOP leaders seem to have the same goals and tactics as Dems) to plan our fate, even as we speak. “
Yep, sealing our fate.
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