{"id":2132,"date":"2004-07-15T11:58:09","date_gmt":"2004-07-15T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2132.html"},"modified":"2004-07-15T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2004-07-15T16:58:09","slug":"romneys-sister-souljah-moment-four-years-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/romneys-sister-souljah-moment-four-years-too-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney&#8217;s Sister Souljah moment, four years too soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard that Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) has presidential aspirations for 2008, but I had no idea he&#8217;d be willing to try out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A51560-2004Jul15.html\">a Sister Souljah strategy<\/a> four years early.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney criticized the Bush administration on Wednesday, saying the government engages in wasteful spending and often gives money to ensure Republican votes.<\/p>\n<p>The government doles out money &#8220;based on who will vote for us or for our party: in effect, we buy votes,&#8221; Romney said in remarks prepared for delivery. &#8220;We fund programs that don&#8217;t work. We tolerate abuse and cheating in the multiples of billions of dollars.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Romney&#8217;s speech took plenty of shots at Kerry and Dems, too, but I don&#8217;t think the White House takes kindly to high-profile Republicans attacking the Bush administration and the GOP in public.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Romney is trying to establish a McCain-like independent streak to bolster his chances in &#8217;08. Then again, maybe he should remember what Bush and the GOP establishment did to McCain in 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard that Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) has presidential aspirations for 2008, but I had no idea he&#8217;d be willing to try out a Sister Souljah strategy four years early. Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney criticized the Bush administration on Wednesday, saying the government engages in wasteful spending and often gives money to ensure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}