Diane Sawyer: #1 issue is jobs in America. What is your distinguishing idea?
Newt Gingrich - Worked with Reagan and Clinton making millions of jobs.
Mitt Romney - Sawyer speaks for Romney and lauds him, first.
Romney ignores his failing record:
MITT ROMNEY - THE PROVEN BAD GOVERNOR
“As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts’ anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
“Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents,” professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush’s $726 billion tax-cut proposal.”
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America’s Governors, 2004.]
Sawyer (ABC, Democrat), of course, ignores Romney’s false statements and the fact that
he ignores the question (talks instead about economy and the budget).
Probably not in this lifetime.