Romney’s 2007 Bin Laden Gaffe Comes Back To Haunt Him

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Romney’s 2007 Bin Laden Gaffe Comes Back To Haunt Him

Benjy Sarlin

The Obama campaign isn’t shy about using the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden as a political cudgel. But the White House’s record may get a boost from the GOP’s choice of nominee, whose previous presidential campaign included a spat with fellow Republicans over the relative unimportance of catching the Al Qaeda leader.

In the campaign’s first major election speech on first policy, Vice President Joe Biden made extremely prominent use of an April 2007 Romney quote on Bin Laden, in which he told the Associated Press “it’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”

“I was a little more direct,” Biden said in his speech. “We will follow the SOB to the gates of hell.”

Romney’s “heaven and earth” line proved a gaffe at the time as well. Sen. John McCain, who tried to portray Romney throughout the race as weak on national security...Romney walked back his remarks in a Republican debate, saying “We’ll move everything to get him. But I don’t want to buy into the Democratic pitch that this is all about one person — Osama bin Laden — because after we get him, there’s going to be another and another.”

Now it’s coming back to haunt him, especially as Romney has tried to minimize the Navy SEAL raid by suggesting “any president” would have done the same thing.

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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/romneys-2007-bin-laden-gaffe-comes-back-to-haunt-him.php

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/26/1086609/-Joe-Biden-s-bumper-sticker-bin-Laden-s-dead-and-General-Motors-is-alive-

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1. This douchenozzle is hopeless

absolutely hopeless.




Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Leo, Sophie, Taz & Nigel, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"We ride inside--HISS!”

[ProSense]

6. It's not

hard to imagine that the Romney campaign and Republicans simply decided on a say-whatever strategy. Between the flip flops and the gaffes, not to mention having to ignore his time as MA Governor, what the else can he do?

[nykym]

2. “it’s not worth moving heaven and earth

spending billions of dollars just trying to elect one person.”

[Rex]

3. “We will follow the SOB to the gates of hell.”

Thanks Joe.

[Permanut]

4. Mitt, I can think of at least one President who didn't go after Bin Laden... n/t

"I don’t know where he is. I really just don’t spend that much time on him, to be honest with you."

[DevonRex]

5. Yeah, sure. Any president but W and you, Mr. Romney.

Love Mr. Biden's quote. "We will follow the SOB to the gates of hell." And that's exactly what they did and they got that SOB at the gates of hell. They surely did.