You gotta’ love how easily Mitt Romney says things that everyone knows are not just untrue but loony. Romney said today that he couldn’t possibly pick Santorum to be his vice president because Santorum’s waaaaaaaaay too liberal.
Look, Santorum has his issues but does anyone on the planet actually believe this? I don’t even think Romney can believe this.
Yahoo reports:
If Mitt Romney wins the Republican presidential nomination, he’ll have many options for a running mate. His current rival Rick Santorum probably won’t be one of them.
Romney said as much Tuesday when Neil Cavuto asked him on Fox Business if he would choose a candidate to his right in order to win the election.
“Well that would preclude, of course, Rick Santorum,” Romney said. “Because I mean look at his record. I find it interesting that he continues to describe himself as the real conservative. This is the guy who voted against the right to work, this is the guy who voted to fund Planned Parenthood, this is the person who voted to raise the debt ceiling five times. …It’s my way of saying that Rick Santorum is not a person who is an economic conservative, to my right. I’m saying I’m a conservative, I give him credit for being a conservative, but not a fiscal conservative. His record does not suggest he’s got the fiscal conservative chops that I have.”
I guess he has to tear down Santorum as a political strategy but the critiques have to be at least believable, don’t they? And, actually, I think this kind of talk actually hurts Romney because it feeds into the belief that he will say ANYTHING if he thinks it’ll help him get elected.
