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Related: About this forumDNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Statement on Results of South Carolina GOP Primary
Posted by DNC Press on Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 9:12 p.m. ET
Tonight, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement on the results of the Republican primary in South Carolina:
If tonight proved one thing, it's that the central rationale of Mitt Romneys campaign is cratering. He came into South Carolina with a 20 point lead - a state where jobs and the economy is the number one issue - and the candidate who hung his entire candidacy on these issues, Mitt Romney, saw his support collapse.
Why? Because Mitt Romney's been exposed as being out of touch with the middle class, and voters are seeing that he lives by another set of rules. Hes refused to level with voters, and now hes in trouble. Anyone who goes into a state with a significant double digit lead yet ends up losing that support in a week, is someone who is failing to connect.
Voters in South Carolina saw that Mitt Romney has no core values, and that he will say anything to get elected. Hes been exposed as having plans and policies that would keep his taxes low, and make them even lower, while doing nothing for the middle class. The people of South Carolina also began to see what Romneys brand of free enterprise really is: destroying companies and jobs to enrich himself while working families suffer. Tonight, they rejected it. At the end of the day, voters want someone they can trust, who shares their vision and who understands their plight. And they are finding that Mitt Romney is not that person.
Regardless of who becomes the Republican nominee, all of the candidates in the race support the failed policies of the past that drove us to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Thats not what the American people want, and thats why they know that the clear choice in this election is President Obama.
http://www.democrats.org/news/press/dnc_chair_debbie_wasserman_schultzs_statement_on_results_of_south_carolina_
Why? Because Mitt Romney's been exposed as being out of touch with the middle class, and voters are seeing that he lives by another set of rules. Hes refused to level with voters, and now hes in trouble. Anyone who goes into a state with a significant double digit lead yet ends up losing that support in a week, is someone who is failing to connect.
Voters in South Carolina saw that Mitt Romney has no core values, and that he will say anything to get elected. Hes been exposed as having plans and policies that would keep his taxes low, and make them even lower, while doing nothing for the middle class. The people of South Carolina also began to see what Romneys brand of free enterprise really is: destroying companies and jobs to enrich himself while working families suffer. Tonight, they rejected it. At the end of the day, voters want someone they can trust, who shares their vision and who understands their plight. And they are finding that Mitt Romney is not that person.
Regardless of who becomes the Republican nominee, all of the candidates in the race support the failed policies of the past that drove us to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Thats not what the American people want, and thats why they know that the clear choice in this election is President Obama.
http://www.democrats.org/news/press/dnc_chair_debbie_wasserman_schultzs_statement_on_results_of_south_carolina_
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DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Statement on Results of South Carolina GOP Primary (Original Post)
ellisonz
Jan 2012
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applegrove
(118,715 posts)1. Excellent statement. Just excellent.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)2. Go get 'em Debbie :) n/t
tabatha
(18,795 posts)3. Actually, I don't think right wing voters are that smart.
Gingrich throws out the red meat - and that is what they want.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)4. I sadly agree with your assessment. n/t
Kath1
(4,309 posts)5. Way To Go, Debbie!
I love this part of her statement:
Regardless of who becomes the Republican nominee, all of the candidates in the race support the failed policies of the past that drove us to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Thats not what the American people want, and thats why they know that the clear choice in this election is President Obama.
Excellent, and so very true!