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DNC Turns Trump's Romney Endorsement Into a Curse

By Lauren Fox

February 2, 2012 RSS Feed Print

The Democratic National Committee wasted no time in turning Donald Trump's endorsement of Mitt Romney into a curse for the GOP frontrunner.

In a low-budget ad, the DNC shows many criticisms Trump made of Romney over the past year, including a comment Trump made to the Washington Post criticizing the former Massachusetts governor for having a history of "eliminating jobs rather than creating them," and another comment Trump made that Romney "doesn't have a chance at the nomination." [See a collection of political cartoons on the 2012 GOP hopefuls.]

What do Romney and Trump have in common? "They both like firing people," the DNC says.

It's followed by various clips of Trump delivering his signature 'You're Fired' line on his television show "The Apprentice" and a comment Romney made while campaigning in New Hampshire regarding private insurance companies.

"I want individuals to have their own insurance," he said. "That means the insurance company will have an incentive to keep you healthy. It also means if you don't like what they do, you can fire them. I like being able to fire people who provide services to me."

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Romney shouldn't have attended the Trump "event". Trump is a blow-hard, is not a political force and he just makes everybody around him look cartoonish.

Connie, I like Mitt too. He'd be a good neighbor, but I still really don't know what he stands for. He knows the words to "America The Beautiful". Big deal. Mitt is on the attack, but to win the Presidency he needs to put out a vision and he hasn't done that yet.

We're not Greece. The gloom and doom crowd is just discouraged Pubs. The economy is getting better, the stock market has fully rebounded and as VP Joe Biden said, "Osama Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive".

I didn't think we could survive the disaster of the Bush administration, but we did. Despite all the Chicken Littles protestations, Democracy is alive and well in America. America is a great country. We will survive the Bush Great Recession.

BTW-I liked Bush too, be a great neighbor, but he was a lousy Commander-In-Chief and President.

Bing of AL 2:46PM February 03, 2012

The Obama camp is worried about Romney and they will make dirty politics their focus. Hypocrisy is not the sole purview of the extreme left or right. The problem is voters who overlook it. I am voting for Romney. I trust his integrity and economic ability. He is rich, but earned it himself and knows how to help encourage business growth and prosperity. I hear attacks on his integrity, with no fact to back it up. He has lived a pretty clean life and I have been watching for many years. I would trust a rich man,who understands the economy and how to fix the mess we are in. I notice that a lot of people who blog would never hire a rich person, they prefer an inexperienced person who has never even run a lemonade stand to fix this huge economy. That person has a lot of audacity to even run. According to the stats, we are now over 15 trillion in dept and borrowing over 10 million a day. Don't they understand that when the well runs dry there will be no one to bail us out. Greece is just a small microcosm of what is in store for us.

Connie Davis of CA 7:52PM February 02, 2012

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