Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, US presidential candidate. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
One would think that Mitt Romney would take advantage of his “Meet The Press” interview on 09-09-12 to articulate a clear agenda loaded with specifics. That did not happen.
Instead, it appeared that Governor Romney was changing course midstream.
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Remarkably, Romney stated that Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention ”elevated” the Convention. Is the implication that Clinton’s speech diminished the speechmaking at Republican National Convention?
Likewise, Romney expressed his dissatisfaction with sequestration, the policy initiative which triggers automatic reductions in defense spending beginning January 1st. When host David Gregory reminded Romney that sequestration had broad bi-partisan support, he was adamant when he reiterated his position that the policy was wrong, and that GOP members of Congress should not have supported it.
Romney even when so far as to say that there were parts of health care reform which he liked.
We are only 58 days away from Election 2012.
With these kinds of pronouncements, can Mitt Romney articulate a game changing agenda to assure a GOP victory?
Or, has he virtually conceded that Clinton’s Convention Speech was the agenda setting message for Election 2012, a concession which assures his likely defeat?
According to a Tweet by Grace Lamb-Atkinson, the MTP Interview in trending on TWITTER.
Link: https://twitter.com/GraceLambA/status/244793720820609025
Huffington Post reports that the MTP Interview is making headlines.
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/09/mitt-romney-meet-the-press-david-gregory_n_1868546.html
With respect to Clint Eastwood’s speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention, Meenal Vamburkar of Mediaite.com writes:
Link: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/mitt-romney-i-was-laughing-at-clint-eastwoods-great-thrill-of-a-speech/
Although dated, this Blog post by Erik Erickson in the conservative RED STATE probably explains why to this day, Romney concedes that he still likes parts of Obama’s health care reform legislation (quote):
Link:
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/03/03/further-proof-romney-supported-a-national-individual-mandate-in-2009/
In POLITICO’S Playbook Blog, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen post (quote):
Linkh: http://www.politico.com/playbook/