Let's hope and pray he gets it exactly right in time for the convention.
From Yahoo's The Ticket:
Mitt Romney stood behind his
claim that President Barack Obama is waging a campaign based on "anger"
and "hate," telling "CBS This Morning" the president is diminishing the
White House with his attacks.
"I think people across the
country who have seen the president's ads and the ads of the people who
are supporting him .... have been a little astonished by what he's
done," Romney said. "The president's campaign is all about division and
attack and hatred. My campaign is about getting America back to work and
creating greater unity in this country."
Asked to specify how exactly
Obama is running a campaign of "hatred," Romney pointed to campaign ads
the president and his supporters are running and accused the president
of campaigning on "divisiveness based on income, age, ethnicity and so
forth."
"It's designed to bring a sense
of enmity and jealousy and anger, and this is not, in my view, what the
American people want to see," Romney said. "I know what I am running
for. I am running to get America working again. … The president seems to
be running just to hang on to power. I think he will do anything in his
power to try and get re-elected."
Asked about the Obama campaign's comments he has come "unhinged," Romney laughed.
"They were very measured. I could
be much more dramatic, I think," he said. "I think unhinged would have
to characterize what we've seen from the president's campaign."
He criticized Vice President Joe
Biden's suggestion yesterday that his fiscal policy would "put you all
back in chains"—telling CBS it was a "factually inaccurate" metaphor
unbecoming of the Obama administration. "I think comments of this nature
sink the White House just a little lower," Romney said.
"The American
people expect something better from the president than these kinds of
divisive comments. ... Talking about me and attacking me is demeaning to
the nature of the process, particularly at a time when we face the kind
of challenges we face."
Romney dismissed any major policy
differences between him and Rep. Paul Ryan, his new vice-presidential
running mate. Pointing to his criticism of Obama's proposed cuts to
Medicare, CBS anchor Anthony Mason pointed out that Ryan's budget
proposal would "make those same cuts to Medicare."
"First of all, Congressman Ryan
has joined my campaign, and his campaign is my campaign now, and we are
on exactly the same page," Romney replied. "And my campaign has made it
very clear: The president's cuts of $716 billion to Medicare ... those
cuts are going to be restored if I become president and Paul Ryan
becomes vice president."
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