I am sure many Democrats’ heads will explode upon hearing that Mitt Romney is comparing the president to Marie Antoinette.
But Romney, whose campaign also released in Iowa a 60-second ad with soaring patriotic themes, spared President Barack Obama no quarter Thursday as he looked to frame the coming election in dramatic overtones.
“This is not an election just to change presidents, its an election to save the soul of America,” Romney said, telling the crowd that Obama’s policies were making America more like Europe.
As if to underscore that point, Romney made an oblique reference to the infamous French monarch Marie Antionette’s most famous line.
“I watch the president, he says, ‘Well, it could have been worse.’ That goes down there with ‘Let them eat cake.’ That’s not the right,” Romney said. “Americans believe it can be better, and I have confidence in the future. I’m not a pessimist.”
Oh, come on, Governor. We all know Michelle Obama would never let us eat that cake.
I am sure Obama’s spokesman will reject the Antoinette comparison during the president’s 10-day Hawaiian vacation, at the press center outside his luxury rental in Kailua, sometime after leisurely three-hour dinner of the special tasting menu at Alan Wong’s Restaurant (roughly $105–$125/head) before the 91st golf outing of his presidency at Ko’olau Golf Club (greens fees $80–$130).
For a guy who supposedly came to do good, Obama is also doing very well. The rest of us, not so much.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Well, it could have been worse."
Romney truly nails it here.
I ran into yet another Democrat on TV, trying to formulate a tall tale which paints the situation so dreadful inherited by Obama - this is why we are all doing so poorly today. As if the Democrats put us on the right track, and it is just a slow process. Nonsense.
We all know just how badly the Democrats have made for all today. They had complete control from 2008 to 2010 and did the very worst. The Democratic Partisan disaster is obscene, even knowing full well Mr. Obama offered another laughable budget which called for more wasteful deficit spending, which was rejected by the Democrat controlled Senate 98 to 0.
Obama was given everything in life, a privileged politically correct existence which coasted without any real challenge or real world experience. A truly entitled existence, a perfect symbol for the Democratic Partisan naive fantasy. He has been wrong about everything, even his core campaign mantra of "no meddling" has turned into a vindication of the Bush Administration doctrine when faced with reality.
This time, hopefully, we have the focus and ability to finally put the Democratic Party on the dust heap. They offered again the same Carter Malaise, the same Clinton Malfeasance, an unethical greedy partisan machine effort to bribe their own, while making life miserable for all once again.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMitt must be channeling Chris Muir's Day By Day.
Muir is a fire-breathing tea party guy, and he's got little patience for Obama, Holder, Democrat minions, or, for that matter, those he considers RINOs.
Obama as Marie Antoinette has been a recurring theme over the past two years.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseInterestingly, my sister and her husband ate at that same restaurant three weeks ago, and their bill for the tasting menu was much, much higher.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis was actualy the most hopeful news I'd seen in a while -- Mitt going all RED MEAT on Barack. Bodes well for the fall campaign. One of the many lessons of 2008 was, "Nice don't cut it."
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseJim, it's "Antoinette" not "Antionette".
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI know Jim was joking, but the "cake" Antoinette was referring to was not birthday cake but the burnt crumbs caked on the sides of old ovens. The quote has more force if you understand what she was actually saying. It is like saying, with a straight face, "let the peasants eat trash".
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