House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday launched political grenades at Mitt Romney, arguing that Republicans haven’t coalesced behind the GOP frontrunner because they don’t believe he can beat President Barack Obama in November.
The House’s top Democrat repeatedly jabbed at the former Massachusetts governor during an hour-long interview hosted by POLITICO and taunted the GOP for a slate of presidential contenders that she said was “not exactly what you would call the first string of the Republican Party.”
“If the far right thought that Romney could win, they might be more enthusiastic about him,” Pelosi told POLITICO’s Mike Allen during Tuesday’s Playbook Breakfast. “But they question what he stands for and they don’t think he’s going to win. So what’s the sell? I’m not sure he knows what he stands for, and that makes it harder too.”
“I don’t know who knows him,” she added of Romney. “Does he know him?”
When asked about Romney’s vow to veto the DREAM Act if he were president, Pelosi said that showed he lacked an “understanding” of policies that would not only help young illegal immigrants but bolster the United States’s competitiveness in a global economy.
“He’s not going to be president,” Pelosi said. “But I think it’s indicative of a hard line that doesn’t seem consistent with who he was as governor.”
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I don’t know for whom I will vote when the primaries get to my state but one thing I know:
I DON’T GIVE A HOOT what ANY lib says OR what the media wants me to do. Unlike liberals, I have a brain & I will vote my conscience, NOT someone elses.
You can’t pay attention to whom the media or some USA hating libs want you to vote for. You need to vote for whom YOU want to vote.
She’s right.
The man chosen by the American populace on November 6<supth</sup, 2012 — and chosen by the 538 electors in December — will be either Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, or Barack Obama. No other Republican candidate can win.
IF she says so, then maybe he has a good chance.
He’s a rich Mormon, and a lot of people don’t like Mormons and are jealous of anyone who gets richer than they, especially if its due to hard work and intelligence. It might even help that he’s quite boring (people want a rest from exciting leaders).
He’s not my first choice, but if Nancy hates him, he should have a good chance of winning.
Unfortunately, Gingrich has too much baggage on his hands, for having shut down the USA government in 1995, so despite many short memories, this act somehow cannot get out of my mind.
Despite this, I shall vote for whichever Republican ends up runnung against Obama. However, since unfortunately I don’t reside in a swing state, my vote is only academic, as it shall not change the outcome 1 iota.
Sounds to me like Pelosi is scared of Romney, scared that he’d have a good chance of winning the presidency.
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