There’s a very important lesson that politicians are taught earlier in their career, don’t say anything that can be misconstrued or tied into your past failures, apparently Mitt Romney missed both parts of that lecture.
During a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Monday the GOP presidential hopeful was discussing the advantages of purchasing health care services when he pointed out that if you don’t like your insurance company “you can fire them.” While that statement would have been fine he instead said:
“I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.”
In itself the statement makes sense however liberal media outlets, bloggers and constituents have blasted Romney for the comment while using the opportunity to point out that his own Bain Capital reap huge profits in 2011 after partaking in massive layoffs.
While I personally don’t see the harm in his wording Romney hasn’t exactly played fair when President Obama has made certain statements. In fact Obama was quoting John McCain when he mocked his efforts by telling reporters “If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.” Romney, after being told that the quote was from McCain and not Obama continued to attribute it to the President.
Therefore by Mitt Romney’s own admission as Greg Sargent in the Washington Post writes, “it wouldn’t be questionable at all to whittle Romney’s quote down to a claim that he enjoys the act of firing people.”
With John McCain recently endorsing Mitt Romney the former Massachusetts governor sure picked a strange time to dredge back up his own endorsers 2008 misfire, even if he is now trying to pin it on President Obama.
Here’s Romney’s “Fire People” speech:
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Do you think it’s fair to attribute a misquoted Mitt Romney attribution to his run for the Presidency since he’s playing by the same dirty trick?
