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Mitt Romney’s rapid response to Obama’s “You can’t change Washington from the inside” gaffe.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 20th, 2012 at 04:45 PM  | 

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Nice to see that the Romney campaign is doing rapid-response:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi2HSk7csJs&feature=player_embedded

Transcript when I get it, but the gist is that the President today admitted that his last four years were an, ah, miserable failure; and Mitt Romney was happy to note that if Barack Obama thinks that he can do better at changing Washington from the outside than Obama could at changing Washington from the inside then Mitt Romney, for one, would be happy to help make sure that Barack Obama gets that chance.  It was really quite fun: ‘the white flag of surrender’ – which is one of those tropes that Republicans like to throw in the faces of Democrats, given the latter’s endemic reputation for being wimps – was mentioned at least twice, so you know that Romney was having fun.

Moe Lane

[UPDATE]: Some of the best part:

Now the country faces major challenges, you know that we face massive debt, trillion-dollar deficits. We face a Washington that’s broken – that can’t get the job done. The President today threw in the white flag of surrender again. He said he can’t change Washington from inside. He can only change it from outside. Well, we’re going to give him that chance in November. He’s going outside. I can change Washington. I will change Washington. We’ll get the job done from the inside – Republicans and Democrats will come together. He can’t do it. His slogan was ‘Yes, we can.’ His slogan now is ‘No, I can’t.’ This is time for a new president.

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  • Viet71

    Good, straight punching. I like this.

    Romney’s being undone by the press and by the drumbeat of the polls.

    He needs to study up and throw straight, clean punches in the debates. He can do it.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    Funniest thing: with Tim Kaine torching the reservation as he left, Obama endorsing Romney, and Carney saying if Romney shoots without aiming his accuracy is remarkably better than Obama, H. Clinton, and General Dempsey combined, Chuck Todd basically told the members of JournoList (i.e. his followers like Cilizza and Ezra Klein) to leave twitter completely because they wouldn’t win this fight. Seriously, if anyone wants a hilarious exercise in tortured back bending; look at Ezra Klein’s twitter feed. Klein took @chucktodd’s advice.

  • brah

    I commend Univision for doing something that NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CBS, NY Times, Washington Post, etc….cannot seem to do, ask tough questions. Did you hear that NBC – Univision, yes UNIVISION, just put you to shame. When you ask this guy tough questions, you get stumbling, stupid answers, which is precisely what we saw.

  • nubian

    I checked the full video of Obama. He was talking about needing the support of the American people, who should pressure Congress as his goal for his next term. He was not saying there is nothing he can do with Washington.

  • writescribe

    It disheartens me to agree with you, nubian, but you’re right. I doubt this has enough legs to become an effective narrative. It’s nice to see Romney punching, but I’d be surprised if this gets picked up for long in the media.

  • Melody Warbington

    I suppose you think he didn’t mean “You didn’t built that” either.

  • Jack_Savage

    Maybe you should stand beside him like those people who do sign language, and yell through a bullhorn, “What he REALLY meant was…”

    Your parents must be so, so disappointed.

  • MoeLane

    Thank you for confirming that Obama stepped on a rake, complete with humorous thrashing about and the final ignominious ride down the hill in the wheelbarrow to the manure pile.

  • commonsenseobserver

    The point I’m making is that if Obama wants voters to change Washington from the outside, why would he want them to vote for him, the ultimate insider.

    And the most important lesson he doesn’t seemed to have learnt is that you cannot change America from inside Washington.

    (oh, yeah, and I dare Obama to spin this into some voluteerism nonsense. I’m sure we’d welcome big pharma kindly volunteering to dictate healthcare laws. Or Wall Street making charitable contributions to support financial regulatory reform. Or D.C. Politicians sacrificing their time to lord over us.)