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Friday, October 5, 2012 10:43 EDT
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) admitted to CNNs Soledad OBrien on Friday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is in fact changing his position on numerous issues just to pick up skeptics in the political center, adding that lying to voters is so typical for Republicans and Democrats that he sees it as good campaign tactics.
That point didnt go unnoticed by President Barack Obama either, who said Thursday that hed never seen the revision of candidate Romney who took the stage on Wednesday night espousing a whole new set of political beliefs. It couldnt have been Mitt Romney because the real Mitt Romney has been running around the country for the last year, promising $5 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy, the president told voters in Denver.
OBrien challenged Gingrey, a Romney campaign surrogate, on that very point, asking him to explain why Romney said during the debate that he favors numerous positions and policies completely opposite of what hes campaigned on thus far.
The president neglected to say that during the debate, but doesnt he have a point there? OBrien asked.
That he was dancing around and this is now a flip from what he said very specifically and concretely before?
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/05/romney-surrogate-claims-etch-a-sketch-lying-is-good-campaign-tactics/
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(60,346 posts)Lucy Goosey
(2,940 posts)Seriously.
glinda
(14,807 posts)That certainly would put a new spin on this whole process.