The former congressman recalled Obama’s campaign pledges to rein in government spending and lessen the country’s dependence on credit. “Those were powerful sounding, tough words from a Democratic candidate in 2007 and 2008 who was trying, frankly, to reach out to the center,” Davis said. “Well, I think we all know, four years later, candidate Obama has been a very different person than President Obama.”

“Words aren’t enough now,” he said while visiting with Michael Daubert, a restaurant manager, and his wife, Megan, who owns a wedding planning business. As a Romney campaign camera rolled, he added, “We are going to have to put a president in the White House who takes this problem seriously . . . to put us on the pathway towards a balanced budget.”…

Davis indicated that his ability to focus attention on the national debt is his chief asset to the GOP. At the event here Thursday — which consisted of Davis, College Republican National Committee Chairman Alex Schriver, the Dauberts and a couple of reporters — Davis said the Democratic Party isn’t serious about deficit reduction.