May 21, 2012
Archive: Verbatim
Being a Republican used to mean finding solutions for the American people that worked for everyone. It used to mean having big ideas that moved the country forward. It can mean that again, but big ideas don’t often come from small tents.
— Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), writing in the Los Angeles Times, saying the “extreme right wing of the party is targeting anyone who doesn’t meet its strict criteria.”
I have, some would say, better experience than Barack Obama had when he was a senator and ran.
— Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), quoted by NBC News, making the case for potentially being chosen as Mitt Romney’s running mate.
Would you pick me? I am so much my own agent, it would be — it’s inconceivable.
— Newt Gingrich, quoted by CBS News, on being Mitt Romney’s running mate.
We should be seeing numbers in the 500,000 jobs created per month. This is way, way off from what should happen in a normal recovery.
— Mitt Romney, blasting President Obama on Fox News after the jobs report released this morning showed anemic growth of just 115,000 jobs last month.
Think Progress: “That sort of growth, however, is hardly “normal,” as Romney claims … there have only been 16 months since 1939 — and only four in the last 50 years — in which the economy added 500,000 jobs or more.”
What I would do? People ask me, `What would you to get the economy going’? and I say, `well look at what the president’s done, and do the opposite.’
— Mitt Romney, quoted by the Associated Press.
A full year after Romney launched his presidential bid, the campaign doesn’t have a Spanish version of its website, nor has it hired a Spanish-speaking spokesperson. Romney boycotted a primary debate on Univision, leading to the event’s collapse, and, to date, he has only done one sit-down interview on a national Spanish network. The apparent apathy has left Latino advocates — and more than a few Republicans — baffled, wondering whether the campaign has already written off one of the fastest-growing demographics in the country.
— McKay Coppins, writing for Buzzfeed.
He cannot beat Obama. It’s not going to happen.
— Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), in an interview with ABC News, on Mitt Romney’s prospects in the presidential race after she dropped out. Bachmann has now endorsed Romney.
Isn’t it about time we elected political leaders that have sense enough not to pee on electric fences.
— Texas Railroad Commissioner candidate Roland Sledge (R), whose new ad that has a tagline with which few would disagree.
Not so. Even putting aside the obvious — why would such a savvy politician continually use a state party credit card for non-party business, requiring him to reimburse the credit card company after the bill had been paid? — questions remain about the more than $100,000 in charges from Nov. 2006 to Nov. 2008.
— National Journal, not buying Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) claim that the matter of his using a Florida Republican party credit card for personal expenses was “totally resolved years ago.”
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