Thursday, June 21, 2012
Romney camp works to fashion a national lie.
Because everybody know the darky in the White House can't be allowed any success, the Romney minions have been going from stste to state to get their governors on the same message, to the point of telling Governor Medicare Fraud in Florida to shut up about good jobs numbers there. Needless to say, Mittens minions have denied this. Still it is curious that all the RepublicanTeabaggers have a similar lie to tell.
There will always be some tension between the political calculations of the Romney campaign and individual GOP governors.Given the resolute obstruction of the Republican caucus to anything the President might do, there might be a grain of truth but they can't afford to admit that.
Romney’s campaign is premised on the idea that President Obama’s economic policies are not working in the country. But in some swing states — Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin — the trend line on unemployment is headed downwards.
In Ohio, unemployment is down to 7.3 percent, numbers that both Gov. Bob Kasich (R) and the Obama campaign have been touting. But when May unemployment numbers came out, Kasich was more pessimistic. "Headwinds from Washington don't help, and I remain concerned about our future progress,” he said.
In a recent CNN interview, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) said Obama’s stimulus did “help us in the short run” but “think of how much better we’d do if we had President Romney.” Unemployment in the state is at 5.6 percent.
“We’re the comeback state in the United States,” Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) said recently; unemployment there has fallen from 14.2 percent in August 2009 to 8.5 percent. But, he added, “our comeback is being slowed down by the mess in Washington.”
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), who just won a recall election in part on a message of economic optimism, told reporters last week that “obviously voters feel better if the economy is better” and “one of the beneficiaries of that might be the president,” even if he doesn’t “deserve” credit.
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