Republican contender Mitt Romney sought to get his White House campaign back on track on Tuesday by launching a “prebuttal” to US President Barack Obama’s upcoming State of the Union address.
Romney on Tuesday told a crowd of several hundred handpicked supporters that Obama’s policies have slowed the nation’s economic recovery.
He predicted Obama will use his State of the Union address to “offer a falsely rosy view of the economy” and “hiding the truth of high unemployment and foreclosure rates” in what Romney said would be the opening salvo of Obama’s own reelection effort.
“Tonight, the president will do what he does best. He will give a nice speech with a lot of memorable phrases. But he won’t give you the hard numbers,” Romney said
He charged the president’s plans sound less like “built to last”—a phrase Obama will reportedly use to talk about solidifying the position of the middle class—and more like “doomed to fail.”
“What he’s proposing is more of the same: more taxes, more spending, and more regulation. And all of his proposals involve “big” government and “big” price tags,” he said.
Instead, Romney promised that should he be elected he would “have the courage to tell the American people how it is.”
Romney’s broadside at Obama has been widely taken as an attempt to break from his previous tepid campaign tactics, which have been described by some Republican detractors as “being the least objectionable candidate with the best haircut.”
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