OBAMA: Romney Moved from Severely Conservative to Severely Kidding
Obama: Romney went from ‘severely conservative’ to ‘severely kidding’ (Washington Post)
President Obama used a rally to activists in Miami, Fla., on Thursday to reiterate his campaign’s post-debate efforts to portray former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney as a hardline conservative posing as a moderate.
In a bid to limit the damage from his defeat in last week’s first presidential debate, which has seen most subsequent polls tighten to a dead heat, the president said Romney has used the debate – and subsequent interviews – to disguise these policies.
“He’s trying to go through an extreme makeover: After running for more than a year in which he called himself severely conservative, Mitt Romney is trying to convince you that he was severely kidding,” he said.
Obama also took a veiled swipe at remarks Romney made at a fundraiser earlier in the yea, and which were secretly recorded, that apparently write off 47 percent of Americans, – something the president elected not to do during the first televised debate.