- Does the government work for us or do we work for the government?
Can a man who essentially agrees with President Obama on all the key issues
realistically become the Republican nominee for President?
- Let me speak very directly and candidly about where I stand.
In 1985 I helped found a company.
I learned how America competes with companies in other countries.
...in other countries.
- The money he has that he didn't inherit is what he made as a private equity mogul,
*shutting down companies, liquidating their assets, and firing their American workers.*
- Later, when I served as Governor of Massachusetts,
I used the skills I had learned in 25 years in business to streamline state government.
To get that kind of money you've gotta cosy up as an incumbent to all of the special interest groups
who can go out and raise money for you from their members.
And that kind of relationship has an influence on the way you're gonna vote.
*- Romney is one of the biggest flip-floppers to ever grace the GOP stage.*
- I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country.
I believe people understand that I'm firmly pro-life.
*- You just can't trust a word he says.*
*- I have never seen a guy change his position on so many things so fast.*
- I have never supported the President's Recovery Act, alright, the stimulus.
No time, nowhere, no how have I supported the President's stimulus.
I think there is need for economic stimulus, Americans have lost about eleven trillion dollars in net worth
and government can help make that up in a very difficult time.
*- He was pro gun control, then he becomes a lifetime member of the NRA.*
*- Mitt Romney is a complete hypocrite and phoney.*
- I think you'll find that I've been as consistent as human beings can be.
If you're looking for someone who's never changed any positions on any policies
then I'm not your guy. I'm not your guy.
- I think Americans just don't know sometimes which Mitt Romney they're dealing with.
*- The new cover of Time Magazine today asks the question, why don't they like me?*
*- Mitt Romney spends little or no time doing interviews on the TV*
*whereas the other candidates are working the Sunday news show circuit like a politician running for President.*
*- Romney often bypassing reporters on the rope line...*
*- Remember earlier this year how Romney got a million dollar donation*
*through an organisation that just suddenly ceased to exist the next day?*
*- It's really someone wanting to give Romney the money while staying in the shadows.*
*- Mitt Romney stealing all of Barack Obama's big dollar Wall Street donors.*
*- A good chunk of his funds came from his buddies on Wall Street*
*like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America.*
- To get that kind of money you've gotta cosy up as an incumbent to all of the special-interest groups
who can go out and raise money for you from their members.
That kind of relationship has an influence on the way you're gonna vote.
Now look, I'm not gonna spend my time going after Ben Bernanke.
I'm not gonna take my effort and focus on the Federal Reserve.
- Would the chairman of the Federal Reserve be appointed again?
- I think he's doing a good job. - You do?
- Yes I do. And I think it's important to have the Fed as an independent agency.
I do not think you wanna have the Congress of the United States trying to pull strings at the Fed.
- He physically, personality-wise, comes across
as if he was designed by East German scientists to be the perfect android politician.
- In fact I thought it was such a disastrous interview from Mitt Romney.
*- Romney's donations from lobbyists actually come to more than all of his GOP counterparts combined.*
*- Do you really want this cat to be president?*
*- Romney can't win, he's dead in the water.*
- There are a lotta reasons not to elect me.
[*Music: The Who - Who Are You*]
I will be a pro-life president.
I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country.
We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts, I support them, I won't chip away at them.
As Governor I worked closely with the NRA and the Gun Owner's Action League
to advance legislation that expanded the rights of gun owners in my state.
-Thank you for your understanding. Can you assume the position you were just moments ago?
- If the Federal Government expands at the kinda rate it's expanding,
buy car companies, bail out banks, we have every good reason to be alarmed and to speak our mind.
We didn't waste a lot of money right then, that was an investment made
to try and keep a collapse of our entire financial system from occurring.
But I like mandates, the mandates work... - I beg your pardon?
I didn't know you were gonna admit that!
- The Federal Constitution does not allow for mandates to be provided by the government.
-You like mandates? - Let me tell you what kinda mandates I like Fred, which is this...
- [mandates] which you come up with?
[laughter]
I'd like to ask you to just pass this message along to a friend.
Thanks so much.