Romney goes after Obama in DeWitt while protesters make their voices heard
By John Irwin on June 19, 2012 3:17 pm / 5 comments
DEWITT — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney Tuesday criticized President Barack Obama and detailed what he would do if elected president.
Romney, joined on stage by his wife Ann and Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, said the Nov. 6 election offers a distinct choice between two very different candidates.
“I will take America in a very different direction (than Obama),” Romney said at Sweetie-licious Bakery Cafe, 108 N. Bridge St. “I’m going to do almost the exact opposite of the president.”
Romney spent much of his speech criticizing Obama for saying “the private sector is doing fine.” Obama later walked back the statement.
“If there’s ever a president that isn’t good for the middle class, it’s this president,” Romney said. “This president does not understand how America works.”
Though short on specifics, the former Massachusetts governor and Michigan native said he would work to get the private sector creating jobs at a faster pace if elected.
“Job No. 1 for this president will be to create jobs for the American people,” Romney said.
Romney again promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank financial reform law if elected president. He also pledged to balance the budget and lower taxes in an attempt to spur job growth.
Pro-Obama protesters, many of them holding signs reading “We Are the 99%” or “Romney for President of the 1%” gathered across the street from Romney, and made their voices heard throughout his speech.
Chants of “Four more years!” were heard while the former governor discussed Obama’s policies. Some Romney supporters responded with a chant of “Four more months!”
Lansing mayor and 2010 Michigan Democratic gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero was among the protesters.
“When Michigan needed (Romney) most, he was not here,” Bernero said. “Meanwhile, President Obama saved the auto industry and saved the state.”
Romney did not address the 2009 auto bailouts in his DeWitt speech. In 2008, Romney wrote an editorial for the New York Times opposing the bailouts, titled “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.”
“Romney has to run away from his record, but President Obama can run on his record,” Bernero said. “Hopefully, we send Romney packing.”
Romney was in DeWitt as part of a trip through three traditionally Republican Michigan towns Obama did well in four years ago. He visited Frankenmuth earlier in the day and was set to visit Holland later on.
The Romney campaign hopes to reverse a trend in Michigan presidential politics. No Republican has won the state since George H. W. Bush in 1988. Obama won the state easily in 2008.
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5 Comments
John left the details out. Let me present the full story. The Drudge Report has the details. According to Drudge, the protesters were PAID! One said they were getting $7.25. Another $17 per hour.
Perhaps, John needs to ask the protesters why they weren’t at their workplace? Did Virge Bernaro take a vacation day or was he there on Lansing taxpayer dollars? John should have asked the Lansing Mayor that and told us.
Then, again like the mainstream media, even the local Mt. Pleasant media are stenographers for the Obama Campaign.
“Good Jobs Now??????????” Are you kidding under Obama????????
Virge, your buddy just gave amnesty to 5 million illegals who are stealing jobs from legal Americans!!!!! I wish I could have been there to interview the Lansing Mayor. Thank goodness, the Michigan taxpayers didn’t hire him as Governor.
Obama has done more deficit spending in 3 and a half years than any president. The national economy is in the tank thanks to him. It’s going to be harder for CMU students and recent grads to find work since there are 5 million illegals now who can get out from under the shadows and steal jobs. He wasted hundreds of billions of dollars in “GREEN” companies like Solyndra, which have all gone bankrupt.
Obamacare is skyrocketing health care costs. When is GM going to re-pay the loan to us taxpayers? Bernaro was never asked that. Hey, Virge, how is the recall of Rick Snyder going? Or, did the results in Wisconsin where taxpayers are saying NO to these public sector unions scare you off???
Good Jobs Now? Barack Obama said last week that the private sector was just fine. So, why weren’t these protesters at a real job???????????? Ha, Virge! Private sector doing just fine like Obama said???
And, what about all the golf he plays. The vacations he and Moochelle Obama take jetsetting around the world. He takes more vacation than tenured, unionized professors!!!
With all the golf he plays, he should be ready for the PGA circuit when he gets fired this November.
And, Obama allows the government workers to spend millions on plush convention time in Las Vegas and Hawaii. His attorney general should be fired for the whole gun deal with Mexico.
Even Bill Clinton is praising Mitt Romney, calling his business career, quote, “sterling.” ”Good Governor.” Clinton use to balance budgets unlike Obama. Clinton knows Romney can do a better job.
If I were a CMU student or recent grad and see 5 million illegals competing for the same jobs, then I’d be voting Romney. If I saw a president who was running up RECORD deficits, then I’d vote Romney.
In response to Michmediaperson:”It’s going to be harder for CMU students and recent grads to find work since there are 5 million illegals now who can get out from under the shadows and steal jobs. ” I don’t think that the jobs that impoverished immigrants hold are the ones that college graduates are applying for. Do you?Additionally, you’ve written that “Obama has done more deficit spending in 3 and a half years than any president.” President Obama inherited a disastrous economic situation from President Bush (who, incidentally, entered office enjoying a surplus, which he splurged by giving the wealthiest Americans tax cuts, which they used to make themselves richer and America poorer). President Obama has been forced by the sloppy and irresponsible presidency before him to spend money that we don’t have to accomplish changes that ought to be made. Despite considerable resistance, he has made positive changes to the lives of many, many Americans by passing the health care reform act.Finally, the article you cite in the “Drudge Report”–which sounds totally legit, by the way–admits that reports regarding payment of protesters conflict. It sounds like hogwash to me. People support President Obama because they perceive that he actually cares about them, even though they aren’t wealthy and cannot donate ten million dollars to his campaign. People trust him because he is smart and reasonable. I’m not surprised that Mitt Romney fixated on the “private sector is fine” comment, because it may be the only verbal slip-up that President Obama has made in his entire presidency (and he has admitted it was a slip-up, made very obviously out of frustration, so it seems petty and foolish to continue discussing it).
As a recent college graduate, I plan to vote for the man who has extended health insurance coverage for people under the age of 26, who has reformed student loan plans so college is more affordable for anybody who wants to attend, and who supports the right of all Americans to marry. I certainly don’t want a president who plans to do “almost the exact opposite” of these progressive things.
Hey Lauren, you’ve never been to the South, Southwest or California—-if you don’t speak Spanish, you’re going to have difficulty getting a job. It will get worse now.
With Obama having open borders, millions more will flock here. You haven’t seen some of these illegals on TV the past week. They are lawyers, bankers, teachers,
white-collar people. If you think they are all agricultural or hotel employees, you better think again.
With Obama running up the debt, Lauren, you young people will have to pay for it. Just think, while I’m sipping on margaritas in a few years in retirement on social security, you’ll be paying for it…..but the fund will run dry by the time you’re 70, thanks to liberalism. Reformed student loans? Are you kidding? The interest rate is going back up under him. College affordable? Are you kidding? Health insurance costs are skyrocketing. Obviously, you don’t have to pay for health insurance.
All those Obama donors who got taxpayer dollars to open green companies that have quickly gone bankrupt, are laughing their way to the bank with millions of dollars in their pockets. That was our money!
Black unemployment, especially black youth unemployment are at all-time record highs thanks to Obama. I guess you don’t carry about black people.
Plus, the investigation of “Fast and Furious” with his crooked Attorney General might show Barack Hussein Obama is a crook just like Richard Nixon was.
Biggest mistake you Democrats made—-not selecting Hillary Clinton for president. She wouldn’t have been the socialist, left-winger Obama is.
So it’s okay to pay Bill Schuette to be there and not doing his job but not okay for Virge Bernaro to be there? Nice double standard Michmediaperson.
Rick Snyder should dock vacation time from Bill Schuette. That wasn’t state business. Wonder why the mainstream press won’t go after Schuette and Bernaro. Both should be docked.
Good catch, Guest!