Not yet ready for Prime Time
Written by Benaiah on July 31st, 2006Mitt Romney really stepped in it in Iowa.
Gov. Mitt Romney has apologized for referring to the troubled Big Dig construction project as a “tar baby” during a fundraiser with Iowa Republicans, saying he didn’t know anyone would be offended by the term some consider a racial epithet.
In a speech Saturday, Romney, a Republican considering a run for president in 2008, acknowledged he took a big political risk in taking control of the project after a fatal tunnel ceiling collapse, but said inaction would have been even worse.
“The best thing politically would be to stay as far away from that tar baby as I can,” he told a crowd of about 100 supporters in Ames, Iowa.
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“racial epithet”? Man, I must be living on a different planet.
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We all are.
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I was at the meeting, and am friens with the guy who asked the question that prompted this response from Romney. Give me a break! There was no racial implications, and no one seems to remember John Kerry used thi term with no problems. So did this online Mass. Magazine in its description of Romney in Paragraph #2:
http://www.worcestermag.com/archives/2006/07-20-06/slants-rants_our_turn.html
Romney has the ability to win the election, that’s why the early attacks. He recieved glowing reviews from David Yepsen and Rep. Leach of Iowa, from the speeches he gave that day in Iowa
Jason
http://www.illinoisans4mitt.blogspot.com