Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney‘s much-heralded economic speech flopped Friday, overshadowed by a gaffe over luxury Cadillacs and his choice of an over-ambitious venue, the Detroit Lions’ football field.
Romney opened himself up to derision for choosing a 70,000-seat stadium which attracted just over 1,000 people, many of them school children bussed in to help fill out the crowd, tucked into a corner of the astro-turf pitch.
The small crowd underlined again his inability to draw large numbers of supporters and to excite the conservative base.
The speech too turned out to be a flop. Having been hyped by his campaign staff all week, Romney had little new to say, particulary about how he planned to pay for the 20% tax cuts he announced earlier in the week.
Read more at The Guardian. By Ewen Mac Askill.
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He’s a natty though feckless RINO.
A lackluster candidate, afraid to challenge Obama on numerous fronts, pushes education plan at Islamist-owned Charter School*, etc. going against a BILLION DOLLAR Sociocrat war chest … it’s beginning to look like the America I loved growing up is TOAST!
* http://www.westernjournalism.com/romney-pushes-education-plan-islamistowned-charter-school/