Mitt Romney pens open letter to President Obama in N.H. newspapers
On top of his first campaign commercial, Mitt Romney is “welcoming’’ President Obama to New Hampshire today with an open letter in the Union Leader, the Concord Monitor, and The (Nashua) Telegraph accusing the Democrat of making the country’s economic problems worse during the past three years.
“I would begin by acknowledging that you were dealt a hard hand. You came into office in the midst of an economic crisis that was not of your making. You were asked to face great challenges and to solve difficult problems. The tasks before you would have taxed the abilities of any new president,’’ the Republican presidential candidate writes.
“But we now have had three years to watch your policies unfold and to assess their results. The evidence is in and it is unequivocal. I will be blunt. Your policies have failed,’’ Romney adds.
Obama is due in Manchester at midday for his first public speech following the collapse to a congressional supercommittee charged with reducing the federal budget deficit. He is expected to make a pitch for his own job-creation package.
In his letter, Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, repeats a standard campaign-trail criticism of Obama: He accuses the president of creating a stimulus package “filled with special interest giveaways’’ and guarantees to campaign donors, which he brands “crony capitalism.’’
“You also failed to grasp the impact of your policies on the American business climate,’’ the former venture capitalist says. “If companies have stopped hiring in America, it is in no small part because of policies, including Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, and an astonishing tangle of new federal regulations that have snuffed out investment. If we are ever to get America back to work, they all must be repealed.’’
Romney adds that he hopes to emerge as the GOP nominee, saying, “We need a great debate about how best to get our country working again.’’
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