Even Teapublicans don’t trust or much like Mitt Romney. Check out some of these quotes about R(Money) by leading Republicans and Tea Party members and while you are here, be sure to check our our list of Mitt Romney Flip-Flops!
Joe Scarborough
- “What does it say about a candidate, though, who wrote an op-ed in 2009 saying that, please apply what we did in Massachusetts nationally on an individual mandate, and then goes on the campaign trail yesterday and just lies? I hate to be that blunt. I hate to use that word. Does anybody disagree with my characterization of what he said yesterday when he had been saying all along that he had just been talking about an individual mandate for Massachusetts? He lied yesterday. It’s on videotape. What does that — what are conservatives to think about that?”
Rudy Giuliani
- “I’ve never seen a guy change his positions on so many things, so fast, on a dime.”
Mitch Daniels
- “Presidential candidates have to campaign to govern, not just to win. Romney doesn’t talk that way.”
Rick Santorum
- “He is the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama.” Santorum later said he was referring to Romney’s standing on health care reform.
- “If Mitt Romney’s an economic heavyweight, we’re in trouble, because he was 47th out of 50 in job creation in the state of Massachusetts when he was governor. He may have had some success at making money for himself and his partners at Bain Capital, and I give him a lot of credit for doing so, but that’s a very different thing than going out and creating an atmosphere for people to create — that create jobs.”
Newt Gingrich
- “Someone who will lie to you to get to be president will lie to you when he is president.”
- “We are not going to beat Barack Obama with some guy who has Swiss bank accounts, Cayman Island accounts, owns shares of Goldman Sachs while it forecloses on Florida and is himself a stockholder in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while he tries to think the rest of us are too stupid to put the dots together and understand what this is all about.”
- “Why would you want to nominate the guy who lost to the guy who lost to Obama?”
Michele Bachmann
- “He can’t beat Obama because his policy is the basis of Obamacare. The signature issue of Obama is Obamacare. You can’t have a candidate who has given the blueprint for Obamacare. It’s too identical. It’s not going to happen.”
- “He’s been very inconsistent on his positions. He’s been on both sides of the abortion issue, on both sides of the issue with same-sex marriage … he was for the TARP bill, the $700 billion bailout and the global warming initiatives.”
Rick Perry
- “I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips — whether he’d have enough of them to hand out.”
- “If you are a victim of Bain Capital’s downsizing, it’s the ultimate insult for Mitt Romney to come to South Carolina to tell you he feels your pain. Because he caused it.”
- “While you were the governor of Massachusetts in that period of time, you were 47th in the nation in job creation. … You failed as the governor of Massachusetts.”
Jon Huntsman
- “Gov. Romney enjoys firing people. “
- “He’s been on three sides of every major issue of the day. And because of that it’s going to be very tough in the end to be able to make that trust argument to the American people.”
- “When you combine a record of uncertainty — running first as a senator, as a liberal; governor as a moderate; then as a conservative for the presidency, people wonder where your core is.”
- “You can’t be a perfectly lubricated weather vane on the important issues of the day.”
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