All statements involving Mitt Romney
President Obama told people "to skip coming here (Las Vegas) for conventions and meetings."
"Three years ago, a newly elected President Obama told America that if Congress approved his plan to borrow nearly a trillion dollars, he would hold unemployment below 8 percent."
"If you take into account all the people who are struggling for work, or have just stopped looking, the real unemployment rate is over 15 percent."
Says Mitt Romney’s campaign "has already spent more on negative ads than John McCain did during his entire presidential run."
"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day."
In 1992, Mitt Romney "gave money to Democrats for Congress."
"This president went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip."
"I've never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot."
"Romneycare … is a top-down, government-run health care system."
"Romneycare sent costs spiraling out of control" in Massachusetts, "hiking premiums, squeezing household budgets."
Says Newt Gingrich said "Spanish is the language of the ghetto."
"(Newt Gingrich) voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, and yet he gets in a debate and says we should get rid of the Department of Education and send all the education issues back to the states."
"When I was fighting against cap and trade, the speaker was sitting down with Nancy Pelosi on a sofa encouraging it."
"The median income in this country has declined 10 percent in the last four years."
Says Newt Gingrich’s contract was with "the lobbyists at Freddie Mac."
"We have 25 million Americans out of work."
"While Romney was a director of the Damon Corporation, the company was defrauding Medicare of millions."
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