Wait, it gets better:
4. Bush enacted a historic expansion of Medicare. Romney wants to end Medicare as we know it.
GEORGE W. BUSH: Successfully pushed for a major expansion of Medicare, providing seniors with prescription drug benefits. [CNN, 12/08/03]
MITT ROMNEY: Would end Medicare as we know it by turning into a voucher sytem. [TNR, 12/9/11]
5. Bush signed a substantial increase to the minimum wage. Romney opposes increasing the minimum wage.
GEORGE W. BUSH: Signed legislation increasing the minimum wage from $5.85 an hour to $7.25 an hour [Employer Advisor, 5/30/07]
MITT ROMNEY: Opposes increasing the minimum wage. [CNBC, 3/5/12]
6. Bush created higher fuel efficiency standards. Romney says even current standards are too high.
GEORGE W. BUSH: Signed higher fuel efficiency standards for cars into law, raising CAFE standards to at least 35 miles per gallon by 2020. [ThinkProgress, 3/25/08]
MITT ROMNEY: Opposes raising CAFE standards, saying existing standards have hurt domestic automakers. [Mitt Romney, 2/24/12]
7. Bush acknowledged global warming is caused by humans. Romney says we dont know.
GEORGE W. BUSH: Acknowledged that carbon emissions by humans is causing global warming stating, I recognize the surface of the earth is warmer and that an increase in greenhouse gases caused by humans is contributing to the problem. [NYT, 1/10/07]
MITT ROMNEY: Refuses to acknowlege that carbon emmissions by humans is causing global warming, stating we dont know whats causing climate change. [CBS, 10/28/11]
8. Bush lauched one of the biggest land conservation programs in U.S. history. Romney says the federal government owns too much land.
GEORGE W. BUSH: Used his executive authority to create the worlds largest marine preserve and considered launching one of the biggest conservation programs in U.S. history without congressional approval. [NPR, 5/23/08]
MITT ROMNEY: Questions the value of federal conservation, saying, I dont know why the government owns so much of this land. [ThinkProgress, 2/2/12]
Romney is positioning himself as the most conservative Republican nominee since Barry Goldwater in 1964.
That’s his style - trash someone to make himself look better - now it’s Bush, he took over for Barry, that was his gig!! Birds of a feather.
- His whole campaign was trashing Newt! And before that it was SARAH to make sure the road was cleared away for him.
What a truly pathetic excuse for a man - if there ever was an empty suit, it is Romney!
Romney is positioning himself as the most conservative soundingRepublican nominee since Barry Goldwater in 1964
. I don't expect that stuff to last more than 24 hours past his calculation that he has irretrievable secured the Republican nomination.