Mitt Romney to hit Hillary Clinton on jobs
Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday will lodge some of his sharpest attacks yet against likely Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
His comments, which come as speculation over a third Romney White House bid grows, suggest a strong push to orient his next campaign around economic issues facing the poor and totie Clinton to the Obama administrations economic policies.
Short term, our economy is looking up. But it is a lot better for the few, and pretty darn discouraging for the many, Romney will say in a speech at Mississippi State University Wednesday, according to a copy of his prepared remarks. How can Secretary Clinton provide opportunity for all if she doesn't know where jobs come from in the first place?"
Romneys comments appear to reference a Clinton stump speech from October, in which the former secretary of state dismissed trickle-down economic theory.
"Don't let anybody tell you that, you know, it's corporations and businesses that create jobs. You know that old theory, trickle-down economics. That has been tried. That has failed," Clinton said in a speech in October.
Critics seized upon her comments to paint her as anti-business and her team later said that she had intended to make a comment about tax cuts for corporations. Critics pointed to the botched line as evidence that Clinton would run into trouble appealingto the growingpopulists voices in her party.
Romney plans to say that we need to lift people out of poverty, pointing to both individuals he met on the campaign trail in 2012 who were optimistic about finding their way back into the middle class and folks who had been in poverty from generation to generation.
It's finally time to apply conservative policies that improve America's education system, promote family formation and create good-paying jobs," he will say.
This isn't the first time Romney has gone afterClinton onmiddle class issues.Earlier Wednesday, Romney's team criticized Clintons lifestyle of the rich and famous" in an effort to downplay the extent to which his own wealth may factor into another White House run.
It's going to be hard for Hillary Clinton to make Mitt Romney's wealth a fruitful line of attack, with her multi-million dollar mansions in Georgetown and Chappaqua and her jet-setting lifestyle of the rich and famous," a Romney aide told the Boston Globe.
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Mitt Romney to hit Hillary Clinton on jobs