Mitt Romney is a guy that does not lead but follows the winds of public opinion and his own selfish opportunism.
Mitt does not say what he believes is truth and America needs but what the primary voters need to be told in order to vote for him.
The Daily Beast
Link :
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/01/mitt-romney-s-debt-ceiling-statement-makes-him-the-cowardly-candidate.html
Romney: The Cowardly Candidate
Mitt Romney could have grudgingly accepted the debt-ceiling deal. But instead, he’s bolstered his reputation for insincerity by pandering to the Tea Party, says Michael Tomasky.
Aug 1, 2011
Some excerpts :
Barack Obama got taken to school by Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, but he does have this much going for him: He’s probably going to be running for reelection against Mitt Romney, whose entry into the debt-ceiling debate was laughably late and wrong. Romney said Monday morning, after weeks of silence and after it was pretty apparent that the bill was going to pass, that “while I appreciate the extraordinarily difficult situation President Obama’s lack of leadership has placed Republican members of Congress in, I personally cannot support this deal.” He added that he couldn’t back a bill that “opens the door to higher taxes and puts defense cuts on the table.” So what do we make of this?
Romney is going straight Tea Party here. It’s interesting—you might have thought he’d conclude that Michele Bachmann had that market cornered. She, of course, voted no when the House passed the debt bill Monday night. She was one of 66 Republicans to do so. Those are Bachmann Republicans. You might have thought that the 174 Republicans who voted yes—the more “moderate” ones, and, after all, the ones on the winning side—were Romney’s crowd.
This is an excellent example of what’s wrong with the guy. He has very cowardly instincts. What would have been wrong with him saying something like, “Hey, as much as I hate it, I understand what Congress is like. As the song says, you can’t always get what you want, but I think Mitch McConnell and John Boehner took Barack Obama to the cleaners, and we’re nudging the needle in the right direction here. So with reservations about the defense spending and a caution that we must be absolutely vigilant that those wimpy Democrats don’t weaken our defenses and undermine our fighting men and women, I support it.”
Wouldn’t that have worked fine? It’s the establishment Republican position. The two leading Republicans in the country support it. Nearly 73 percent of House Republicans just backed that position, and a similar or probably even higher percentage of senators is going to back that position today. I also can’t imagine that a large number of Republican high-dollar donors are off in Bachmann land. So Romney had the chance to make a distinction between himself and the woman who now appears positioned to be his chief challenger.
So why didn’t he? Iowa. The two Republicans from Iowa in the House, Steve King and Tom Latham, both voted against the deal. Romney will have to finish respectably in the state to stay alive. And throw in South Carolina, where all five Republican representatives voted against the deal. Interestingly, the two Republicans who represent New Hampshire in the House both voted for the deal, but Romney probably felt he didn’t need to go with them because he feels he already has that state in the win column.
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TIME.COM
link here :
http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/01/profile-in-cowardice-mitt-romney-rejects-the-debt-deal/
TIME.COM
Viewpoint
Profile in Cowardice: Mitt Romney Rejects the Debt Deal
By Joe Klein Monday, August 1, 2011 | 92 Comments
Mitt Romney demonstrates, yet again, why he lacks the character for higher office:
“As President, my plan would have produced a budget that was cut, capped and balanced – not one that opens the door to higher taxes and puts defense cuts on the table. President Obama’s leadership failure has pushed the economy to the brink at the eleventh hour and 59th minute. While I appreciate the extraordinarily difficult situation President Obama’s lack of leadership has placed Republican Members of Congress in, I personally cannot support this deal.”
This graceless kow-tow to the Tea Party makes sense politically. But it is a lie. His “plan” could never have passed. Furthermore, by releasing this crap this morning, he hasn’t made Boehner’s task any easier in gathering votes for this dreadful-but-less-dreadful-than-any-other-votable alternative. Yecch.
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The Moderate Voice :
link :
http://themoderatevoice.com/118492/mitt-romney-and-the-debt-ceiling-limit-crisis-profile-in-political-cowardice/
The Moderate Voice
Mitt Romney and the Debt Ceiling Limit Crisis: Profile in Political Cowardice
Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief in Economy, Politics.
Aug 1st, 2011
Some excerpts :
Well, no one can accuse Mitt Romney of not being transparent.
Romney has apparently stuck his finger up in the wind to see which way vital Tea Party sentiments were going on the debt ceiling limit issue.
For weeks he has had his finger stuck in a much shadier area on this issue.
But now the big battle is over and he needs Tea Party votes so suddenly he is speaking out:
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) broke his silence on the congressional debt-ceiling fight on Monday, emerging to say he couldn’t back the final deal announced Sunday.
Romney, who had refused to weigh in during recent weeks on the specifics of various proposals to raise the debt ceiling, said he couldn’t personally back the deal brokered over the weekend between congressional GOP leaders and President Obama.
“While I appreciate the extraordinarily difficult situation President Obama’s lack of leadership has placed Republican Members of Congress in, I personally cannot support this deal,” he said in a statement.
Romney joins Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) as another member of the Republican presidential field to oppose the deal, which has been sold by GOP leaders to rank-and-file members as the best achievable plan.
I need to add that I have long been an admirer of Romney. I’m one of those who LIKED his incarnation as a moderate Republican governor. And when I’ve done some of those CNN spots, several techs and drivers have told me that they met Romney and he is a great guy. Plus, I admire his business experience.
But this statement confirms what his critics on the right say about him and his former supporters on the left will say: he goes where the wind blows.
The most consistent thing about Mitt Romney is his hair.
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POLITICO.COM
link :
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0811/Romney_finally_opposes_deal.html
POLITICO
Ben Smith
Romney, finally, opposes deal
August 01, 2011
Some excerpts :
Romney, finally, opposes deal
A very careful Romney finally breaks his silence:
As president, my plan would have produced a budget that was cut, capped and balanced – not one that opens the door to higher taxes and puts defense cuts on the table. President Obama’s leadership failure has pushed the economy to the brink at the eleventh hour and 59th minute. While I appreciate the extraordinarily difficult situation President Obama’s lack of leadership has placed Republican Members of Congress in, I personally cannot support this deal.
Romney has been, to this point, positioning himself for a general election; this statement marks the limits of what he can get away with in the primary.
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