The Club for Growth continued its evaluation of 2008 candidates with Sam Brownback, with a mostly positive result. This is important for Brownback because it differentiates him from Mike Huckabee, who the Club has savaged. I think that this confirms that Brownback is in the 2nd-tier, not the 3rd. He Read more…
MItt Romney’s appearance on This Week will likely be viewed as one of the fundamental mistakes in the campaign. Not only has he had a problem with his statements on why he voted for Paul Tsongas. He is going to have another problem on taxes. In talking about taxes and Read more…
Update: The Boston Herald wrote about Romney’s lousy record on this stuff this morning.
According to Bloomberg, Romney has been so butchered on his flip-flopping on social issues, that now he wants to talk about economic issues. There his strategy seems to be to just lie rather than flip-flop.
Mitt Romney said the other day:
McCain opposed President Bush’s tax cuts, Romney noted.
“I supported them,” the former governor said.
Like most things that Mitt Romney says now about his record as governor, it just isn’t true. I refer you to an AP article from 2003, at the end of the post. (H/T Romney is Fraud).
We will begin with Barney Frank’s praise of Mitt Romney for standing up to George Bush:
"I was very pleased," Frank said afterward. "Here you have a freshman governor refusing to endorse a tax cut presented by a Republican president at the height of his wartime popularity."
Agreeing on tax policy with Barney Frank is not usually how one runs to the right, but Mitt Romney is smarter than the rest of us… Need to keep reading? There’s more:
According to the observer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, Romney told the delegation that he "won’t be a cheerleader" for proposals he doesn’t agree with, "but I have to keep a solid relationship with the White House."
Shawn Feddeman, Romney’s spokeswoman, said the governor has neither endorsed nor opposed the tax cut plan because "it’s just not a state matter."
However, while President Bush was pushing for tax cuts, without Romney’s "cheerleading", Romney was open to tax increases:
In addition to refusing to endorse the president’s tax cut, the governor surprised several people at the meeting by saying he is open to a federal increase in gas taxes. "He wants it dedicated to transportation construction," Capuano said.
I don’t suppose that will make it into his speech today… For nearly everything that Romney says he is for now, you will find him saying the opposite. And for nearly everything that he says about his record, you will find that it is false. Lexis is your friend.