Politico Reports: There were eight candidates on stage at the Republican presidential debate, but Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz made it crystal clear that her critical eyes only saw one — Mitt Romney — so much so that she was called out for it during a TV interview Wednesday morning.
“Mitt Romney did his level best to continue to pull the field of Republican candidates as far to the right and the extreme right as possible, whether it was on immigration, where he said that even families who have been here for 25 years, as Newt Gingrich talked about, he would tear those apart,” the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee said on CNN’s “American Morning.”
This is “a field of Republican candidates so obsessed with one job — Barack Obama’s — rather than American jobs, that they even refused to acknowledge that it’s President Obama who planned and executed the attack on Al Qaeda that killed Osama bin Laden,” she continued.
The Florida congresswoman, who often hits the morning TV circuit the day after Republican debates, once again singled out Romney.
“The entire field had no plan, particularly Mitt Romney, no plan on withdrawing our troops from Iraq when the overwhelming majority of the American people support that. He would leave them there indefinitely,” she said. “This is a field that is not ready for prime time when it comes to being the commander in
chief.”
At this point, CNN’s Alina Cho interjected, “There were eight candidates on the stage tough, and by my count, you’ve said Mitt Romney twice, and you haven’t named any of the other candidates by name.”
Wasserman Schultz noted that she had “also mentioned Newt Gingrich,” before continuing on to elaborate on what she called Romney’s “really disturbing views.”
“He’s done his best to continue to embrace the tea party extremism,” she said. “I think he’s earned the attention that he’s getting … particularly because he flip flops on every major issue [and] has no consistent position, no conviction [and] no core, and he wants to be president of the United States. People should know that.”
