If Mitt Romney has any friends left in the Republican Party, theyâre in hiding.
On the Sunday talk shows, senior Republicans, former Romney surrogates and prominent conservatives piled on their defeated presidential nominee for telling donors that he lost because President Obama bought off minorities and young voters with âgifts.â
âItâs nuts,â said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on ABCâs âThis Week.â âI mean, first of all, itâs insulting. ⦠The job of a political leader in part is to understand the people. If we canât offer a better future that is believable to more people, weâre not going to win.â
Rumored 2016 presidential hopefuls in the party saw an opportunity to distance themselves from Romney.
âI absolutely reject what he said,â said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on âFox News Sunday.â âWe as a Republican Party have to campaign for every single vote. If we want people us we have to like them first. And you donât start to like people by saying their votes were bought.â
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), an on-again, off-again advocate for comprehensive immigration reform, said Romneyâs comments were especially damaging among Hispanics. He said Romney fueled the fire of their disenchantment with the GOP that grew when the ex-governor pushed a policy of âself-deportationâ for illegal immigrants and their children.
âWeâre in a big hole, weâre not getting out of it by comments like that. When youâre in a hole, stop digging. He keeps digging,â he said on NBCâs âMeet the Press.â âWeâre in a death spiral with Hispanic voters because of our rhetoric on immigration, and our candidate Romney and the primaries dug the hole deeper.â
Carlos Gutierrez, a top Hispanic surrogate and adviser to the Romney campaign, said he was âshockedâ by the comments. âI donât know if he understood that he was saying something that was insulting,â he said on CNNâs âState of the Union.â
Romney was never beloved by the GOP establishment. But the Sunday show pile-on indicates that any good will he had among the party faithful is rapidly vanishing, and that heâs well on his way to pariah status with the party that so recently anointed him to lead them and the country.
âItâs been well said that you have a political problem when the voters donât like you, but youâve got a real problem when the voters think you donât like them,â said conservative columnist George Will on ABCâs âThis Week.â âQuit despising the American people.â
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On the Sunday talk shows, senior Republicans, former Romney surrogates and prominent conservatives piled on their defeated presidential nominee for telling donors that he lost because President Obama bought off minorities and young voters with âgifts.â
âItâs nuts,â said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on ABCâs âThis Week.â âI mean, first of all, itâs insulting. ⦠The job of a political leader in part is to understand the people. If we canât offer a better future that is believable to more people, weâre not going to win.â
Rumored 2016 presidential hopefuls in the party saw an opportunity to distance themselves from Romney.
âI absolutely reject what he said,â said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on âFox News Sunday.â âWe as a Republican Party have to campaign for every single vote. If we want people us we have to like them first. And you donât start to like people by saying their votes were bought.â
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), an on-again, off-again advocate for comprehensive immigration reform, said Romneyâs comments were especially damaging among Hispanics. He said Romney fueled the fire of their disenchantment with the GOP that grew when the ex-governor pushed a policy of âself-deportationâ for illegal immigrants and their children.
âWeâre in a big hole, weâre not getting out of it by comments like that. When youâre in a hole, stop digging. He keeps digging,â he said on NBCâs âMeet the Press.â âWeâre in a death spiral with Hispanic voters because of our rhetoric on immigration, and our candidate Romney and the primaries dug the hole deeper.â
Carlos Gutierrez, a top Hispanic surrogate and adviser to the Romney campaign, said he was âshockedâ by the comments. âI donât know if he understood that he was saying something that was insulting,â he said on CNNâs âState of the Union.â
Romney was never beloved by the GOP establishment. But the Sunday show pile-on indicates that any good will he had among the party faithful is rapidly vanishing, and that heâs well on his way to pariah status with the party that so recently anointed him to lead them and the country.
âItâs been well said that you have a political problem when the voters donât like you, but youâve got a real problem when the voters think you donât like them,â said conservative columnist George Will on ABCâs âThis Week.â âQuit despising the American people.â
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