When former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee sharply criticized President Bush’s foreign policy — calling it indicative of an “arrogant bunker mentality” — no one jumped to the administration’s defense more quickly than former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. “That’s an insult to the President and Mike Huckabee should apologize to the President,” he said on NBC’s Meet the Press.
Yesterday though, Reuters reported that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was now “distancing himself from his party’s unpopular president,” noting his criticisms of the Bush administration’s Iraq mismanagement at an event in Iowa......
“I think we did a less than effective job in managing the conflict following the collapse of Saddam Hussein,” the former Massachusetts governor said at a news conference. “I think we were under prepared for what occurred, understaffed, under planned, and, in some respects, under managed.“
Romney’s campaign, however, was unwilling to relinquish its spot as the Bush administration’s biggest defender. It claimed that calling Bush “arrogant” is worse than calling him a bad manager. Within an hour after the Reuters story was put out, the campaign issued a press release declaring that Romney remains a “strong supporter of the mission in Iraq”
In the past, Romney has attempted to distance himself from the President. But more recently, Romney has fully embraced the Bush administration, recently saying of Bush: “I believe that the president has acted in good faith and out of a desire to protect this country to do everything in his power to keep America safe.”
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