Saturday, October 31, 2009

Romney: "Neo-monarchists" running country

Mitt Romney helped raise money for Massachusetts Senatorial hopeful, Scott Brown, yesterday.

The Sun Chronicle:

Former Gov. Mitt Romney Friday declared that Washington is being run by "neo-monarchists" and the country needs a second revolution to restore power to the people.

.... The Republican and former presidential candidate compared the current political situation to the conditions that existed in 1776.

Back then, he said, monarchists believed in a "strong central leader" while revolutionaries wanted to hand government over to the people.

It's a theme Romney used at the National Council for a New America's kick-off event at that pizza joint with the stools.

CNN, circa May.

Mitt Romney compared the GOP to Americans fighting the British during the Revolutionary War. "We are the party of the revolutionaries, they [Democrats] are the party of the monarchists," he told the overwhelmingly Republican crowd, saying the Republicans needed to "once again lead the American Revolution."