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Related: About this forumVideo: 2004 Mitt Romney Says It’s ‘Poppycock’ To Blame President For Job Market
Another flip-flop for Willard!
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Progressive SuperPAC American Bridge has dug up some video of Republican presidential candidate and then-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, defending President George W. Bushs economic record in 2004, thats spookily resonant to this years election. In the clip, Romney not only amusingly uses the word poppycock (one of the all-time underrated old man curse words and a delicious snack), he also urges voters not to blame the President for unforeseen catastrophes, and to ask Do I stay with the president, who is rebuilding the economy, who is creating jobs, or do you want to stop mid-stream and find someone new?
In the video, Romney draws several eerie parallels to the current election. While President Obama took office in the middle of what some call an economic 9/11, Romney talked about a perfect storm that included the actual 9/11: (transcription by American Bridge)
The people of America recognize that the slowdown in jobs that occurred during the early years of the Bush administration were the result of a perfect storm. And an effort by one candidate to somehow say Oh, this recession and the slowdown in jobs was the result of somehow this president magically being elected people in America just dismiss that as being poppycock. And they recognize it as that.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/video-2004-mitt-romney-says-its-poppycock-to-blame-president-for-job-market/
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Video: 2004 Mitt Romney Says It’s ‘Poppycock’ To Blame President For Job Market (Original Post)
Adenoid_Hynkel
Aug 2012
OP
midnight
(26,624 posts)1. Hey, Mitt, how about getting some of that TARP money into the hands of the people instead of
your asperity cuts...
zeemike
(18,998 posts)2. that needs to be edited down to just the point he made.
No right winger worth his salt would include the whole statement..no reason why we should.
Blue Owl
(50,529 posts)3. Time for a game of "Left Mitt Right Mitt"!
n/t
demwing
(16,916 posts)4. "Oh My Heck!"
(authentic, common alternative swearing in Utah)
ecstatic
(32,741 posts)5. I definitely need to work the word "poppycock" into my vocabulary somehow nt