July 30th, 2012
As always, it’s hard to defend Romney. Here’s his response to the stupid Newsweek cover:
“They tried that in George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty great President and anything but,” said Romney in an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation.
George H.W. Bush was “a pretty great president”? Really? I’d like to see Romney’s personal ranking of U.S. presidents because I can’t imagine any reading of U.S. history in which H.W. Bush clocks in as “pretty great.”
Of course, Romney might just be bar-setting for himself down the road I guess.
Jason O. July 31, 2012 at 8:53 am
Perhaps he was taking a shot at CBS news by trying to remind people of the Dan Rather interview with Bush 41 that backfired? (I know, I know, that was really thin. In fact it was anorexic, as Riggs said to Murtaugh in LW I.