David Plouffe, a senior advisor to President Obama who served as his 2008 campaign manager, attacked leading Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a flip-flopper who would be willing to say, “the sky was green and the grass was blue” to get elected.
“He has no core,” Plouffe said of Romney during an appearance on ‘Meet the Press’ Sunday. “And every day, almost, it seems we find another issue. He was supportive of doing things like a cap and trade agreement. Now he doesn’t think that climate change is real. He was to the left of Ted Kennedy on gay rights issues, now he wants to amend the Consitution to prohibit gay marriage. He was a pro-choice governor, now he believes that life begins at conception and would ban Roe v. Wade. And so when you look at issue after issue after issue, he’s moved all over the place. And I can tell you one thing, working a few steps down from the president. What you need in that office is conviction. You need a true compass, and you’ve got to be willing to make tough calls. And you get the sense with Mitt Romney that if he thought it was good to say the sky was green and the grass was blue to win an election, he’d say it.”
The attack suggests that if Romney were the GOP nominee, the Obama team would try to rip him apart for changing positions, as President Bush did to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., in his successful reelection bid.
