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Romney: I'm A Businessman, Huck Is A Career Politician

By Eric Kleefeld - December 1, 2007, 8:51PM

In an interview with the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, Mitt Romney gave a taste of how he'll contrast himself with Mike Huckabee in the weeks to come: Romney boasts that he has spent his life in the productive work of business, and supports tax cuts, while Huckabee is a career politician who loves to tax, spend, and coddle illegal immigrants.

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Maybe the "successful businessman" can explain how he has nothing but a tie to show for his extravagant campaign spending.

Romneys effort could end up like John Connallys did; spending millions and then losing miserably.

Posted by Richard
December 1, 2007 11:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
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It seems like Romney set Huckabee up for an alley oop:

Well, I haven't been a politician ALL my life. But unlike Romney, I have had consistent positions based on my values.

Posted by Ted
December 2, 2007 9:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
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Great! All we need is another businessman! Is he nuts?

Posted by TheraP
December 2, 2007 11:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
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Romeny: I'm just a whore . . . Huckeberry is a lifelong double whore . . .

Huckabee: Not true! I stopped along the way to pick up license to say mine is the only true version of Christianity.

Romney: It's okay. I am a lying sack of shit and nobody listens to me . . . They are all amazed by by hair. Yours looks like a bad toupe.

Huckabee: That's okay. When Clinton wins the Republican nomination like all the match polls say she will, I'll be her VP cuz she is less threatened by me.

Posted by Richard L. Adlof
December 2, 2007 4:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
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Romney is a career politician. the first time he ran for office was 13 years ago. Running for office is a profession.

Posted by Kevin W. Davis
December 2, 2007 9:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
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Does the "my opponent is a career politician -- I'm not" claim EVER work? Maybe in a race for the House of Representatives, but in a race for the White House?

Other than Eisenhower and Grant, both of whom won due to their success as wartime generals, what president of the last 150 years WAS NOT a career politician?

Umday, Ittmay.

Posted by Missed It By THAT Much
December 3, 2007 12:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
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Actually, Romney isn't a businessman, not in the traditional sense of selling a product or making a payroll. His business was buying and selling other businesses, usually involving stripping them into their component parts, selling off the pieces and reducing jobs in the process.

Posted by Dennis
December 3, 2007 7:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
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Romney isn't a businessman? Criminy! There's a spin for EVERYTHING now. Three years as president and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee ... ELEVEN YEARS as a management consultant (before he started the private equity firm); HALF of his business career has been spent NOT "buying and selling other businesses". Of course Management Consulting is a service-oriented business, so I guess that wasn't traditional either.

Remind me ... How long have lawyers (and maids, and landscapers, and hairstylists) been around?

Posted by Icy Truth
December 3, 2007 11:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
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