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“Governor might have been a better job for him to have started with”
“He upon becoming governor — excuse me, president last time,” Romney said, according to media reports.
Romney than used the gaffe to his advantage, saying that a gubernatorial stretch might have provided Obama with the proper experience needed to govern.
“Governor might have been a better job for him to have started with,” Romney joked.
“I say that because I actually think you learn from experience. I think it helps to have been in business before you actually start to run something in government. And then after you’ve done something in government, it helps to start perhaps a little lower level before you become president,” he added.
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WOW major gaff by Romney. He’s definitely not qualified now is he media leftys.
bgibbs1000 on June 17, 2012 at 8:34 AM
I think any private sector job would have been better. In fact, I’m thinking there has to be a way to educate the public against voting for people who’ve never had strong private sector experience.
beatcanvas on June 17, 2012 at 8:36 AM
The closet Commie as a governor would have been exposed, even in IL., so he would have had no chance as Pres. contender. He also would have not had Soros and MSM sculpting him. He was nothing but a junior Senator who merely said the “right things” to a massive foolish audience–the American voters, many plagued by Bush fatigue. It was the perfect storm.
hillsoftx on June 17, 2012 at 8:39 AM
Running a lemonade stand would have been a better job for him to have started with than U.S. President. Being an assistant manager at a McDonald’s would have been a better job for him to have started with. Being a claims adjuster at an insurance company would have been a better job for him to have started with (although somebody first would have had to teach Obama how insurance actually works).
Pretty much any job in the private sector that one can think of (except maybe, as a grievance-mongering lawyer suing banks) would have been a better job for Obama to start with than the job of U.S. President.
AZCoyote on June 17, 2012 at 8:49 AM
I grew up in Chicago, and when I think of Barack Obama, Chicago politician, I think of what the late, great Mike Royko wrote about his fictional character Slats Grobnik. Royko wrote that Slats was very lazy, and as a result the local alderman (city councilman)was his personal hero. That’s because he once heard his dad say about the alderman “He never worked a day in his life.”
That’s Barack Obama.
radjah shelduck on June 17, 2012 at 8:51 AM
One could postulate that the electorate was in an especially anti-establishment mood in 2008, and was wanted (collectively) a candidate that had no record to object to.
Wasn’t JFK’s election like that?
Count to 10 on June 17, 2012 at 8:53 AM
I always wondered why he didn’t run for governor of Illinois first. Back when he first began running for president in ’07, I figured Obama had no shot against Hillary, and that the Dem primary voters wouldn’t go for someone so obviously inexperienced.
I didn’t realize at the time that it was all about seizing power on a national level for the Far Left as quickly as possible.
My bad.
JimLennon on June 17, 2012 at 8:55 AM
It’s frightening that so many people including those who call themselves republicans, voted for an obvious leftard. And why? Because he was black.
Blake on June 17, 2012 at 9:09 AM
Governor of Illinois would have been a great idea for Obama. He could be in a cell next to Blagojevich.
Dasher on June 17, 2012 at 9:22 AM
There is a theory that his original plan was exactly as you outline. His purpose in the primaries was to gain visibility and practice on a national campaign. It was only when he started winning primaries that his team shifted gears and started taking the campaign seriously.
Dextrous on June 17, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Didnt he work in the private sector for a lil while and then described it as being “behind enemy lines”? I think you’re trying to save a hopeless case!
Valkyriepundit on June 17, 2012 at 9:36 AM
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut. That’s what the blind electorate found in 2008.
HomeoftheBrave on June 17, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Voting for someone based on the color of their skin? I wonder what MLK Jr. would have thought of that.
Odysseus on June 17, 2012 at 9:48 AM
That was meant to be a gaffe?
It’s funny and true regardless.
CorporatePiggy on June 17, 2012 at 9:51 AM
He did work “behind enemy lines” briefly. I think one of his private sector achievements was a lawsuit against Citibank based on the fact that they weren’t issuing enough reckless mortgages.
forest on June 17, 2012 at 9:51 AM
I think that’s correct. And his wife made a speech in which she advised people not to work in the private sector.
juliesa on June 17, 2012 at 9:56 AM
No, not a governor. A lemonade stand would have been a better job for him to have started with. Or any job in the private sector, for that matter.
petefrt on June 17, 2012 at 9:57 AM
He would have failed as a governor too. But at least then we would have known.
Paul-Cincy on June 17, 2012 at 10:00 AM
That’s right, now that you mention it. He was with a private law firm for a lil while. I should have said any job as a businessman, which would not include lawyers, doctors, teachers.
Lawyering may well be the worst kind of background for a politician. I’d put it down near the bottom, somewhere near community organizing.
petefrt on June 17, 2012 at 10:04 AM
Dog catcher would have been a first good job too.
But remember, his limited experience in the US Senate was there for everyone to see. How often he voted “present”. How liberal his voting record was, when he actually did vote.
So this should not be a surprise to anyone that paid attention to the facts and not the hype.
ButterflyDragon on June 17, 2012 at 10:09 AM
Exactly. And, if by chance, he learned something and became a “success” by Democratic standards, the public would know what it was choosing.
Of course, the public has no one to blame for that. If America falls, it won’t be Obama’s fault. It will be the contemporary American people’s fault.
There’s a reason why no one without top experience as a government executive (Governor or VP) has won the Presidency since 1960 — and this time only because both candidates had no executive experience.
HitNRun on June 17, 2012 at 10:09 AM
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GovernorJanitor might have been a better job for him to have started with”That’s about all the Dog-Eating Retard is intellectually equipped to do without destroying anything of value. Although … along those lines, he’s only qualified to be a janitor in a place that doesn’t do anything of value, since he would likely break all sorts of things as he was “cleaning” them, the talentless affirmative action baby and jealous hater of advanced civilization.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on June 17, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Governor? Obama’s ego probably told him he was ready to be president after a couple terms in the IL state senate. That joke of a tenure in the US Senate was all the Lightbringer felt was necessary to be “qualified” to be President.
changer1701 on June 17, 2012 at 10:40 AM
This is the mentally handicapped right winger’s imagination. Only in their paranoid universe is being black in America is advantageous. That’s why we had so many black presidents in America. REALLY???
Studies have shown that in 2008 election racism had costed the president about 5% of the the vote. If he had been white, it would have been a landslide!!
Salahuddin on June 17, 2012 at 10:40 AM
LOL, idiot. Maybe you should go back and count the number of times “historical” and “unprecedented” appeared in articles about the Dog-Eating, America-hating Retard. It’s called “Affirmative Action”, Einstein, and it was writ large all over the insane election of the dumbest person (and only America-hater) to ever occupy the Oval Office.
Go crawl back under your rock, slimeball.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on June 17, 2012 at 10:45 AM
Since governors of Illinois don’t have a very good track record at avoiding jailtime, yeah, I wish he would have started with the governor’s job, too.
Greyledge Gal on June 17, 2012 at 10:49 AM
That joke of a tenure is reminding me another inexperienced junior senator from Illinois who was so ambitious he run for the presidency in 1860 and won.
Salahuddin on June 17, 2012 at 10:51 AM
Thread winner right there
Sekhmet on June 17, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Great thing about this is that it shows Romney can actually talk and think at the same time. Barry, not so much.
Zaggs on June 17, 2012 at 11:10 AM