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Romney aides blast 'hypocrites' who asked for cabinet jobs just before election and are now trashing him
The Daily Mail
Toby Harnden
11/23/2012
Excerpt:
Former senior aides to Mitt Romney have hit back at the 'craven hypocrites' in the Republican party who just days before the election were clamouring for jobs in a Romney administration and are now belittling him.
'I'm sure Governor Romney is finding out now who his real friends are,' a former adviser told MailOnline.
'There were one or two well-known figures who were late committing to support him, were the most eager to curry favour when it looked like we would win and are now out there trashing the governor.
'In politics, when you win you are a genius and when you lose everyone calls you an idiot. But to see the way certain craven hypocrites are acting right now really sticks in the craw.'
At a big event in Ohio just days before the election, he said, there were leading figures cozying up to Romney and trying to land cabinet positions.
'Tens of thousands of people, you could feel the energy, a hundred top-tier Romney surrogates were at the event,' he remembered. 'I’m backstage with some of them - I won’t mention their names - but they’re talking about Romney like he’s Reagan.
'"His debate performances were the best performances of any Republican nominee in presidential history. He’s iconic." They were talking about him because they believed he was going to win in four or five days. And in fact, some of them were already talking to our transition to position themselves for a Romney cabinet.'
Within days, however, there was a 'stunning' turnaround as the same people turned on Romney with a vengeance.
'They were on television, it was unbelievable, it was five, six days later, absolutely eviscerating him,' Senor said.
But the other senior adviser, who declined to be named when criticising senior Republicans, singled out Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Newt Gingrich as among those who had been quickest to lambast Romney.
After Romney told donors on a post-election conference call that many voted had plumped for President Barack Obama because he had offered them 'gifts', Jindal said Romney's comments were 'absolutely wrong'.
He said: 'We have got to stop dividing American voters. We need to go after 100 per cent of the votes, not 53 per cent - we need to go after every single vote.'
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The Daily Mail
Toby Harnden
11/23/2012
Excerpt:
- Presidential candidate has come under fire from Republicans after loss
- But aides say figures like Bobby Jindal and Newt Gingrich were desperate for positions in his cabinet if he had won
Former senior aides to Mitt Romney have hit back at the 'craven hypocrites' in the Republican party who just days before the election were clamouring for jobs in a Romney administration and are now belittling him.
'I'm sure Governor Romney is finding out now who his real friends are,' a former adviser told MailOnline.
'There were one or two well-known figures who were late committing to support him, were the most eager to curry favour when it looked like we would win and are now out there trashing the governor.
'In politics, when you win you are a genius and when you lose everyone calls you an idiot. But to see the way certain craven hypocrites are acting right now really sticks in the craw.'
At a big event in Ohio just days before the election, he said, there were leading figures cozying up to Romney and trying to land cabinet positions.
'Tens of thousands of people, you could feel the energy, a hundred top-tier Romney surrogates were at the event,' he remembered. 'I’m backstage with some of them - I won’t mention their names - but they’re talking about Romney like he’s Reagan.
'"His debate performances were the best performances of any Republican nominee in presidential history. He’s iconic." They were talking about him because they believed he was going to win in four or five days. And in fact, some of them were already talking to our transition to position themselves for a Romney cabinet.'
Within days, however, there was a 'stunning' turnaround as the same people turned on Romney with a vengeance.
'They were on television, it was unbelievable, it was five, six days later, absolutely eviscerating him,' Senor said.
But the other senior adviser, who declined to be named when criticising senior Republicans, singled out Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Newt Gingrich as among those who had been quickest to lambast Romney.
After Romney told donors on a post-election conference call that many voted had plumped for President Barack Obama because he had offered them 'gifts', Jindal said Romney's comments were 'absolutely wrong'.
He said: 'We have got to stop dividing American voters. We need to go after 100 per cent of the votes, not 53 per cent - we need to go after every single vote.'
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View the complete article at:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...shing-him.html