Romney and the Ryan budget:

Mitt Romney’s poor judgment is already undermining his candidacy

Calling the budget a Trojan horse, disguised as a deficit-reduction plan, Obama said that the legislation is “really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country. It is thinly veiled social Darwinism. It is antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everybody who’s willing to work for it; a place where prosperity doesn’t trickle down from the top, but grows outward from the heart of the middle class. And by gutting the very things we need to grow an economy that’s built to last – education and training, research and development, our infrastructure – it is a prescription for decline.”
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….Mitt Romney, to put it bluntly, should know better. That he has embraced a piece of legislation likely to cause him so much damage in November is a telling indication of his larger – or, rather, lesser – political skills. But in his defence, it’s also an indication of how conservative the Republican party has become.