Romney camp asks Gov Rick Scott to tone down news of falling unemployment

[CaseAgainstFaith]

Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign asked Florida Governor Rick Scott to tone down his statements heralding improvements in the state’s economy because they clash with the presumptive Republican nominee’s message that the nation is suffering under President Barack Obama, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Scott, a Republican, was asked to say that the state’s jobless rate could improve faster under a Romney presidency, according to the people, who asked not to be named.

A Romney adviser made the request this week to Scott’s staff after press releases from the governor’s re-election campaign and Internet messages from the Florida Chamber of Commerce trumpeted the state’s drop to 8.6 percent unemployment rate in May from 8.7 percent in April, the people said. The national unemployment rate is 8.2 percent.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-21/romney-campaign-said-to-ask-scott-to-downplay-job-gains.html

bahahahahahahahhaahahahahaha. Nothing like deceiving voters to try and win eh?

[Askold]

I am stunned at the mere thought that a politician would want to lie to the voters...

Oh right...

What’s unfolding in Florida highlights a dilemma for the Romney campaign: how to allow Republican governors to take credit for economic improvements in their states while faulting Obama’s stewardship of the national economy.

Hahahahahaha!

[ThunderWulf]

Ladies and Gentleman etc. etc....

THIS is why I hate politics.

[ironbite]

So they're trying to rewrite reality in order to win this election?

Ironbite-good jorb there morons.

[Old Viking]

From 8.7 to 8.6?  No wonder everyone in the state is getting excited.

[Fpqxz]

The fact remains that the "recovery", if it can even be called that, has been weak and uneven.  Both parties are to blame for that.

We could be doing much more to stimulate the economy, but the lack of consensus combined with GOP intransigence toward anything the Obama administration proposes, leaves us adrift and rudderless like a ghost ship.  (How's that for a metaphor?)

Any alleged "gains" can be accredited to broader macroeconomic forces which themselves are endangered by the situation in Europe.  So neither side can claim to have actually "done" anything to improve the economy.

[armandtanzarian]

Really? I could've come up with a better script for Romney on this:

Romney's recommended speech:

The fact is ladies and gentlemen we've had a wonderful group of governors in Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, who've been able to lift their states out of the economic pit, despite everything that this socialist president is doing to sabotage our economy. Can you imagine how they'd be doing with me in office? We would never see lines at the unemployment office again! Every household would have food on their table. This is what I promise if we let the free market run itself.

See, not so hard innit?

[m52nickerson]

Really? I could've come up with a better script for Romney on this:

Romney's recommended speech:

The fact is ladies and gentlemen we've had a wonderful group of governors in Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, who've been able to lift their states out of the economic pit, despite everything that this socialist president is doing to sabotage our economy. Can you imagine how they'd be doing with me in office? We would never see lines at the unemployment office again! Every household would have food on their table. This is what I promise if we let the free market run itself.

See, not so hard innit?

Problem is that the GOP and it's voters like simple arguments.  If people have to start thinking they may very well see a lot of flaws in the GOP platform.