Over the weekend The Boston Globe ran a post with some Mitt Romney quotes from up in New Hampshire. I'm going to cherry pick a couple here.
“There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip," said Mitt Romney.
Seriously? The word bullshit comes to mind pretty quickly. The closest Mitt Romney has come to a pink slip was handing them out at companies that Bain Capital bought and looted for assets. When Mitt took the job to lead Bain Capital he got a special agreement that if the venture failed that he would get his old job back.
“Our office, we were in the back of an old, empty shopping mall,...And our chairs were Naugahyde chairs with, with an old table that we used as the board table…It was the private sector and we were pulling ourselves up in some respects by our boot straps, we were careful," Mitt said.
Okay. Maybe the office at the first Staples had furniture like this, but I can guarantee that when he went back to the offices of Bain it was all leather chairs and mahogany tables.
“I have to tell you: This chance to run for President of the United States, I never imagined I’d do it,” Romney said. “Somehow I backed into the chance to do this,” added Romney.
Now I'm rolling on the floor laughing. The man has wanted to be President his entire adult life. Every step he's made since graduated college has been part of a calculation to one day run for President. This isn't a man who fell into the opportunity to run. This is a man who has been running every days for twenty years. He chose not to run for a second term as governor in 2006 so that he could run for President in 2008. Since 2008 he has been in continuous campaign mode.
I really don't know how Mitt Romney lives with his conscience.
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Let us not forget his most recent one, "I like to fire people!"
I'm willing to let that one slide. I think he was trying to say that he holds people accountable, but tried to pander to his audience at the time.
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