Romney to FL Gov. Scott: Shut up about your improving economy!
I know I said I wouldn’t be posting today, but this was just too good not to share.
Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign asked Florida Governor Rick Scott to tone down his statements heralding improvements in the state’s economy because they clash with the presumptive Republican nominee’s message that the nation is suffering under President Barack Obama, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Scott, a Republican, was asked to say that the state’s jobless rate could improve faster under a Romney presidency, according to the people, who asked not to be named.
What’s unfolding in Florida highlights a dilemma for the Romney campaign: how to allow Republican governors to take credit for economic improvements in their states while faulting Obama’s stewardship of the national economy. Republican governors in Ohio, Virginia, Michigan and Wisconsin also have highlighted improving economies.
How is Mittens supposed to convince everyone that Obama’s economic policies can’t possibly succeed when Republicans are running around telling everyone how great their economies are?
“It’s pretty hilarious if you think about it,” says Ed Kilgore. “Scott’s taking credit for a trend he’s had almost nothing to do with, and Romney wants him to shut up about the trend itself. It’s an attempted lie chasing the tail of an actual lie. And truth be told, neither of these gents has reflected much abiding interest in the actual state of the economy, which serves simply as the backdrop for their pursuit of ideological hobbyhorses and their own careers.”
The story’s the same here in Wisconsin. Scott Walker’s been running around telling everyone about all these new jobs (the numbers are still way below his promised quarter-million, though), but he hasn’t actually done anything to create jobs. Banning collective bargaining for public employees creates jobs you say?
Really? Explain how that works. Because it would seem the only effect it would have on employment is to chase talented public workers to states that are willing to pay what they’re worth. Some quick back-of-the-envelope math suggests that subtraction doesn’t result in addition.
If all the governors start talking about how the economy’s improving, then Romney’s case for the presidency is shot. All his eggs are in one basket – the working against the nation’s interests one.
On the bright side, conservatives can take comfort in the fact that Mittens is finally showing something approximating leadership. Unfortunately, that leadership is being used to tell Republican governors to STFU about the improving economy and get back to work sabotaging America by undermining consumer confidence.
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