“This is not the candidate of hope and change. This is a candidate who is hoping to change the subject,” Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who is also the object of vice-presidential speculation, said on “Face the Nation.”
On the same program, senior Romney campaign adviser Kevin Madden said independent fact-checkers already have affirmed that Mr. Romney is telling the truth about his departure from Bain.
Mr. Madden also took issue with the latest anti-Romney commercial from the Obama campaign that accuses Mr. Romney of outsourcing jobs and taking advantage of tax loopholes. The ad also plays a tape of the former Massachusetts governor offering up a slightly off-key version of “God Bless America.”
“Look, I find it very troubling,” Mr. Madden said. “I think it is troubling that they would mock someone who’s singing ‘God Bless America.’ “
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Tim Devaney is a national reporter who covers business and international trade for The Washington Times. Previously, he worked for the Detroit News, Grand Rapids Press, Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News. Tim can be reached at tdevaney@washingtontimes.com.
David Eldridge joined The Washington Times in 1999 and over the next seven years helped lead the paper’s coverage of regional politics and government, Sept. 11, and the sniper attacks of 2002. In 2006, he was named managing editor of the paper’s Web site. He came to The Times from the Telegraph in North Platte, Neb., where he served as ...
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