Romney states no to Obama’s ‘big, bad things’
DERRY, NH — For once, Mitt Romney gave credit this day for President Obama coming through on a campaign promise.
“Candidate Barack Obama was here talking and he stated he was going to bring huge things to America,” Romney said, standing in the same high school gymnasium in Derry, New Hampshire where then-Sen. Obama spoke on January 6, 2008. “Well, he did. And they came with huge price tags. And they did not work out so well. Big things. Bad things. Expensive things. He brought Obamacare. We do not want Obamacare. We do not need it, we do not want it. “
Romney repeated the mantra several times during today’s rally, labeling the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill and other Democratic achievements of the past three years among President Obama’s “big, bad things, costly things.”
Here in Romney’s firewall say of New Hampshire — where NBC/Marist polling conducted this week shows Romney enjoying a 20-point lead over his closest challenger — the former Massachusetts governor cautioned the more than 900 supporters in attendance not to rest on their laurels in the final days before the primary.
“Let me tell you, don’t get too confident with those poll numbers. I’ve watched poll numbers come and go. Things change very quickly; it’s very fluid. I need to make sure you guys get your friends to go out and you vote as well,” Romney said.
And while today’s crowd, warmed up by Romney-imported South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, was largely friendly, the candidate did face a brief disruption by a small but vocal group of Occupy protestors, who chanted “Mitt Kills Jobs,” while the candidate looked on. As a chorus of pro-Romney chants drowned out the group, and police closed in on them, Romney smiled.
“Well we are lucky to live in a country where people are able to express their views,” Romney said. “Although I do prefer when we do it with respect and civility.”
source : firstread.msnbc.msn.com
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