Washington Monthly: Race to the flip-flop
"Romney told a Florida audience on Wednesday that he supports many of the provisions in President Obama’s “Race to the Top” education reform policy. Last night, just a day later, Romney denied supporting “any particular program” in the president’s policy. The clip, from American Bridge, highlights the contradicting positions plainly — what Romney was for on Wednesday he was against on Thursday. [...] The point, though, is the ugly habit Romney has of taking one position on an issue and then soon after taking the exact opposite position. In this case, the 180-degree turn on education policy took literally just one day. And then Romney has the chutzpah to boast, “I stand by my positions”?Seriously? I can vaguely understand how Romney became a leading presidential candidate. How anyone trusts his word, however, remains a mystery to me."
VIDEO: Mitt's Flips: Race To The Top
During the Fox News/Google Republican primary debate, Mitt Romney adamantly denied Rick Perry's charge that he supported the Obama administrator's "Race to the Top." Unfortunately for Mr. Romney, we have him on video praising the program the very DAY BEFORE the debate. American Bridge included the turnaround in our second "Mitt's Flips" video, a new series we started highlighting Romney's bad habit of abandoning his so-called convictions when it suits him politically. Take a look:
AP: Bachmann endorses Hoekstra in US Senate bid
The AP reports that Michele Bachmann has endorsed Pete Hoekstra's senate bid.
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is endorsing Pete Hoekstra in his bid to run against Democratic U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan.
AP: Democrats working to undercut Perry, Romney
On September 23, 2011, the Associated Press wrote:
To hear Democrats tell it, Gov. Rick Perry's economic record in Texas is nothing more than a mirage and his views on Social Security make him "America's Most Dangerous Cowboy." In Massachusetts, President Barack Obama's allies say job creation lagged under Mitt Romney, whose policies would undermine the middle class.
TPM: Mitt Romney’s Success Leads To #Fails
On the same day, American Bridge, a Democratic Super PAC that tracks GOP candidates, posted video of Romney’s wife, Ann, telling New Hampshire voters about how the family owns “a little place in Wolfeboro.” The group sent the quote out along with multiple articles on the 5,400 square foot, six bedroom manse with a 2,700 square foot boathouse and 2,600 square foot guest house."
American Bridge Releases “Mitt’s Flips” Video Highlighting Romney’s Hypocrisy On Fannie & Freddie
In advance of tonight’s Republican presidential debate, American Bridge 21st Century today released a video highlighting Mitt Romney’s bad habit of switching positions nearly every time he walks into a room. As the Boston Globe reported, despite his campaign rhetoric lambasting the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for causing the housing crisis, Romney has up to half a million dollars in a mutual fund that is heavily invested in debt notes of the two entities. The video plays off of a comment Romney made in a Florida town hall just yesterday: “I think the American people recognize that we’re in a point of crisis and they want to hear the truth. And they can tell when people are being phony, and are pandering to an audience. And you’ll see that in politics, you’re not gonna see it in my campaign.” Obviously, given Romney’s long history of abandoning his so-called convictions every time he wages a campaign, that claim is laughably false.
RELEASE: American Bridge Releases “Mitt’s Flips” Video Highlighting Romney’s Hypocrisy on Fannie & Freddie
Washington, DC – In advance of tonight’s Republican presidential debate, American Bridge 21st Century today released a video highlighting Mitt Romney’s bad habit of switching positions nearly every time he walks into a room. As the Boston Globe reported, despite his campaign rhetoric lambasting the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for causing the housing crisis, Romney has up to half a million dollars in a mutual fund that is heavily invested in debt notes of the two entities. The video plays off of a comment Romney made in a Florida town hall just yesterday: “I think the American people recognize that we’re in a point of crisis and they want to hear the truth. And they can tell when people are being phony, and are pandering to an audience. And you’ll see that in politics, you’re not gonna see it in my campaign.”
MSNBC's PoliticsNation On Mitt Romney's Hypocritical Investments In Fannie & Freddie
On September 20, 2011, MSNBC's PoliticsNation covered Mitt Romney's investment in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who he blamed for "inducing the home-mortgage crisis and saying they have become too unwieldy." Take a look:
The Hill: Hoekstra predicts half million dollars for quarter
The Hill reports on Pete Hoekstra's fundraising problems:
Hoekstra has been known as a weak fundraiser in the past, and a half million dollar haul would help change that image. But it will be hard for him to catch up to Stabenow, who has $4 million in the bank for her reelection.
Mother Jones: Romney and Fannie and Freddie: Oh My!
"Republican presidential contender Mitt Romneylikes to slam Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-run housing giants that he claims triggered the recent housing meltdown. (They didn't.) But what Romney isn't letting on, the Boston Globe reports, is that at the same time he's ripped Fannie and Freddie, he has also raked in cash from personal investments in the two companies, which the federal government took over in September 2008. [...] A spokesman for American Bridge, the liberal opposition research group that pulled together Romney's financial records, said the candidate's Fannie and Freddie investments show that Romney's "hypocrisy knows no limits.""