More Adolescent Fibbing About Hillary From Mitt Romney
By Greg Sargent | bio
Mitt Romney often seems a bit like a kind of cross between an oily confidence man and a snickering adolescent. You can easily imagine him running a Three-Card Monte scam in a high-school cafeteria.
Case in point: Romney's latest attack on Hillary, in which he tries to portray her as a Marxist by distorting a recent Hillary speech with an almost comically childish level of dishonesty. Here's Romney:
"Hillary Clinton just gave a speech the other day about her view on the economy. She said we have been an on-your-own society. She said it's time to get rid of that and replace that with shared responsibility and we're-in-it-together society," Romney told the crowd. "That's out with Adam Smith and in with Karl Marx."
Yuk, yuk, yuk...Karl Marx...
...yuk, yuk...
...yuk...
The Hillary speech Romney appears to be referring to is here. She said:
It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few and for the few, time to reject the idea of an "on your own" society and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity. I prefer a "we're all in it together" society.
Now, there is no greater force for economic growth than free markets, but markets work best with rules that promote our values, protect our workers and give all people a chance to succeed.
Man, that's good. Hillary praised free markets in the sentence just after the one Romney quoted in order to prove that she's a Marxist!
And it isn't even the first time Mitt's done this, either -- this gag seems to have become a standard in Mitt's repertoire. Truly, Bart Simpson couldn't top this one.
http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/jul/23/more_snickering_and_adolescent_attacks_on_hillary_from_mitt_romney
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