Thread: DNC: What They're Saying: Smooth Talking Mitt Romney's Credi

DNC: What They're Saying: Smooth Talking Mitt Romney's Credibility Gap



WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Surely, this isn't how
smooth talking Mitt Romney envisioned spending his New Year's Eve. In
February 2007, a leaked 77-page strategy document outlined the Romney
campaign's plan to avoid spending 2007 "facing skepticism about his
conservative message." [Boston Globe, 2/27/07] Now, just days before the
Iowa caucus, the reviews are in. Despite running "the least honorable
campaign of any major candidate," Romney is still being "dogged" by
questions about his flip-flops and a lingering "candor gap" that has left
voters wondering "if there's anything at all at his core" and convinced
that he'll say whatever he thinks voters want to hear instead of what he
believes.



"After flip-flopping on just about every issue in this race and playing
fast and loose with the facts, smooth talking Mitt Romney has failed to
close the deal on even his own credibility," said Democratic National
Committee spokesman Damien LaVera. "The voters may have no idea where he
really stands on any of the challenges confronting our nation, but they
understand that a vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for a third Bush term not
only on the issues, but when it comes to honesty and integrity as well."



"Mitt Romney" is to "Credibility" What "Day" is to "Night"



Union Leader: "The More Romney Speaks, the Less Believable He Becomes."
"Like a lot of people in New Hampshire, we wanted to believe Romney. We
gave him the benefit of the doubt. We listened very carefully to his
expertly rehearsed sales pitch. But in the end he didn't close the deal for
us. Now, two weeks before the primary, the same is happening with voters...
Granite Staters want a candidate who will look them in the eye and tell
them the truth...Mitt Romney has not. He has spoken his lines well, but the
people can sense that the words are memorized, not heartfelt. Last week
Romney was reduced to debating what the meaning of "saw" is. It was only
the latest in a string of demonstrably false claims -- he'd been a hunter
"pretty much" all his life, he'd had the NRA's endorsement, he marched with
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- that call into question the veracity of his
justifications for switching sides on immigration, abortion, taxes and his
affection for Ronald Reagan. In this primary, the more Mitt Romney speaks,
the less believable he becomes." [New Hampshire Union Leader, 12/26/07]



Boston Herald: Romney Trying to Get "Elected By Any Means Necessary."
"Mitt Romney has a dream that he will be judged not by promises he made a
few years ago about abortion and gay rights, but by what political ambition
causes him to claim he believes today. He dreams that Americans will find
him so dreamy they won't even notice that he'll say virtually anything --
anything at all -- to realize his dream of becoming president... Yes, Mitt
Romney has a dream. The ultimate politician's dream -- of saying all the
right things to all the right voters, of getting elected by any means
necessary. [Boston Herald, 12/30/07]



Concord Monitor: New Hampshire Prides Itself on Weeding out "Phony"
Candidates Like Romney. "If you followed only his tenure as governor of
Massachusetts, you might imagine Romney as a pragmatic moderate with
liberal positions on numerous social issues and an ability to work well
with Democrats. If you followed only his campaign for president, you'd
swear he was a red-meat conservative, pandering to the religious right,
whatever the cost. Pay attention to both, and you're left to wonder if
there's anything at all at his core... When New Hampshire partisans are
asked to defend the state's first-in-the-nation primary, we talk about our
ability to see the candidates up close, ask tough questions and see through
the baloney. If a candidate is a phony, we assure ourselves and the rest of
the world, we'll know it. Mitt Romney is such a candidate." [Concord
Monitor, 12/20/07]



LA Times/Bloomberg Poll: Romney the Least Honest Candidate. The Los
Angeles Times asked Republican voters, "Regardless of your choice for
president, who do you think has been best at saying what they believe,
rather than saying what they think the voters want to hear: Rudy Giuliani,
Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Mitt Romney or Fred Thompson?" Romney, at 8
percent, trailed the field, with Huckabee leading at 20 percent, Giuliani
at 18, Thompson at 15 and McCain at 13. [Los Angeles Times, 12/5/07]



Joe Klein: Romney Running "The Least Honorable Campaign of Any Major
Candidate." "Tom Edsall at Huffington Post has the latest on what has been
the least honorable campaign of any major candidate... I've never seen a
candidate who showed such arrant disrespect for the public -- and for
himself. Indeed, Romney has performed a political self-lobotomy. Not just
on his brain, which seemed an impressive instrument a year ago, but also on
whatever nagging moral sense he might have had. He did this in order to
conform -- in the primaries, at least -- to every last polling preference,
no matter how skeevy, of his party's base. Worse, he has chosen to
demagogue on issues -- like illegal immigration -- where his own record
shows a history of moderation...and an embarrassing tendency toward private
hypocrisy (Those gardeners!) I've also never seen a candidate so loathed,
privately, by his competitors. [Time Magazine's Swampland Blog, 12/28/07]



AP: Mitt Romney Has a "Candor Gap." "As a presidential contender, Mitt
Romney has the looks, the money and the campaign machine. He also has
something of a candor gap. When confronted with questions that might
conflict with his message of the day or political record, the Republican
candidate has shown a tendency to bob and weave or simply dismiss history.
He has done so all year, providing an easy target for his opponents." [AP,
12/30/07]



New York Times: Romney "Prone to Exaggeration." "Mr. Romney once said
about misstatements by his Republican rival, Rudolph W. Giuliani, 'facts
are stubborn things.' But does he have his own problem with blurring the
truth? Some of the instances when Mr. Romney has tripped up on his facts
show that he is prone to exaggeration, taking what is essentially a kernel
of truth and stretching it to bolster his case.... For a candidate who has
featured his business background and made much of his propensity for
careful analysis of data, he is not always precise." [New York Times,
12/22/07]



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Do you have a link(s) to all this?

The more the hypocrits at the DNC criticize something or someone, the better it probably is.

Originally Posted by patbrunz

Do you have a link(s) to all this?

Huh

You took the words right out of my mouth Populist. I ditto that. I don't have a problem with Romney's credibility, but I am from Utah and he was here during our Olympics. I have the utmost respect for him and was sad to see him go. I find him upstanding. I don't know if I will vote for him but I find him honorable.

Democratic National Committee code speak for.... Our media plant Hickabee is going down in flames and this guy scares to poop out of us.

Originally Posted by GREGAGREATAMERICAN

Originally Posted by patbrunz

Do you have a link(s) to all this?

Huh

Ordinarily when someone posts something they've copied from somewhere else, a link to the source is required. Do you have a source link or links for all the negative stuff about Romney?

The source is in greg's post pat?

patbrunz - Greg's got the source ok. It's embedded within the link

www.prnewswire.com - click it, you'll see. No not mine here, but the link that appears similar in Greg's post above...

Originally Posted by jean

The source is in greg's post pat?

Oh, yes I see that now because I clicked on the "ww.prnewswire.com" link. Just by looking at that it doesn't look like a link to a story, but a link to prnewswire's main page.

The actual link is:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stori ... 993&EDATE=

Usually a link to a story isn't just displayed like a website's home page. I'm used to seeing a lot more gobbledygook with a link. That's what confused me. Sorry. My computer ignorance is showing.