April 15, 2008
Posted: 11:49 AM ET

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Watch Mitt Romney on American Morning.

(CNN) – As John McCain shifted focus to his economic policies with a major address Tuesday, former Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney plugged the Arizona senator’s credentials on fiscal issues, telling CNN that “if you take Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s experience and multiply it by ten, you still haven’t caught up with Sen. McCain when it comes to experience on the economy.”

McCain, who has focused his campaign on his national security and foreign policy credentials, has faced charges that he is relatively inexperienced dealing with economic policy.

Romney defended the presumptive GOP nominee’s record on CNN’s American Morning Tuesday.

“For a person who’s spent over 25 years in Washington, D.C., working on economic policies, from the days of Reagan and throughout the current time, Sen. McCain is very well aware of the spending programs in Washington,” Romney told Kiran Chetry. “Which ones need to be cut back, which ones need to be grown. He understands also how to relieve the pressure on the American taxpayer.”

Romney’s own fiscal expertise was a foundation of his own White House bid. He has been named as a possible running mate for McCain, but has refused to speculate on his vice presidential chances . “I’m working real hard to get Sen. McCain elected. He’s got a number of people that he can choose from,” Romney told Chetry Tuesday.

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CHERYL FOR HILLARY   April 15th, 2008 2:52 pm ET

HE WANTS A VP POSITION!

THIS WOULD POLITICAL SUICIDE FOR McCAIN!!!!!

IT DOES NOT MATTER THOUGH BECAUSE HILLARY WILL BEAT THEM ANYWAY!!!!!!!

SHE LEADS IN THE POLLS!!!!

GO HILLARY GO!!!!!

Jo, ATL GA   April 15th, 2008 2:55 pm ET

What a loser please add him to the campaign. GOP never learns. Unfortunately the DEM will find a way to loss.

What a shame.

CHERYL FOR HILLARY   April 15th, 2008 2:55 pm ET

PEOPLE WEREN'T BUYING HIS STORY THE FIRST TIME!

WHY WOULD THEY NOW?

HE HAS AS MUCH CHANCE AS BORACK OBAMA !

NILL!

PEOPLE ARE NOT THAT STUPID THEY CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT THESE CANDIDATES ARE ABOUT!!!!!

LIES AND POWER HUNGRY WITH NO EXPERIENCE TO BACK IT UP!!!!!!

GO HILLARY CLINTON!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andy J, NY   April 15th, 2008 2:56 pm ET

Romney is an alright dude.

I don't think anyone who is or was running for President is conspiring against the American people. I think they all believe they can lead our country in the best possible direction, and that goes for Democrats and Republicans.

Mike   April 15th, 2008 2:57 pm ET

I hope this "Ken Doll" "Game Show Host" look-a-like isn't trying to kiss up for the VP nod!

Wayne, Greenville TX   April 15th, 2008 2:59 pm ET

Look who's back - the Ted Dansen look-alike/Dan Quayle think-alike…… :-)

Mike   April 15th, 2008 3:03 pm ET

Hey dont you have a compound to get back to in west Texas Mitt?

Tim   April 15th, 2008 3:06 pm ET

Hah, as if you have any credibility. I'm pretty sure you werent praising his economic experience 3 months ago!

Stacy Clarks, TX   April 15th, 2008 3:07 pm ET

It so funny how McCain is trying to cover up HIS OWN ADMISSION THAT HE IS WEAK ON THE ECONOMY!!!

Well guess what the number 1 issue is?!?!!? THE ECONOMY!!!

WE WANT OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

honkey white guy from cali   April 15th, 2008 3:08 pm ET

Cheryl you really do live in LA LA Land don't you? my goodness support your candidate, but don't lie as much as she does. Doing it it only makes you look as desperate as your candidate. Hillary has no chance of winning the Primary much less the GE against Mc Cain! But he is looking for VP spot that much is obvious to anyone! Neither one of them stand a chance at trying to make America believe that the republican party has any idea about the economy they have there on corp interest at heart. I mean he was saying that NAFTA and the new Columbian trade deal are both positive to the US he is crazy. they lied and got it through but not again.

Karla   April 15th, 2008 3:11 pm ET

I would never vote for Hillary because that would bring Bill back to the White House. When she chose to "stand by her man," she lost any chance of getting my vote (and many of my friends.)

SUBJECT CHANGE: ROVE'S STRATEGY (LABLING) OF SEN. OBAMA EMERGES:   April 15th, 2008 3:22 pm ET

MARXIST…

SOCIALIST….

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST!!! The coordination of Fox propaganda and Leiberman (and the REST of the republican party) has begun.

(play a little game.. count how many times you hear Obama labled as either of those words for the rest of the day)

Meanwhile… McCain gets to talk policy and plan (you know.. looking Presidential), while Obama has to fend off being labled by the right, while also fending off scorched earth, hurricane hillary!..

The guy deserves a COMBAT medal.

jd   April 15th, 2008 3:23 pm ET

Please , please Pennsylvania let it all be over soon! Obama/08

Jan   April 15th, 2008 3:23 pm ET

MCCAIN—-ROMNEY

YES YES YES

08

AZM   April 15th, 2008 3:28 pm ET

Pay attention… this is how a party comes together!

I know, I know,,, tough concept to grasp!

BHO vs HRC to the death… live… tonight at 9:00!

***AMERICAN***   April 15th, 2008 3:29 pm ET

CHERYL FOR HILLARY April 15th, 2008 2:55 pm ET

…LIES AND POWER HUNGRY WITH NO EXPERIENCE TO BACK IT UP!!!!!!

Last time I check, Romney was a governor. His political resume is strangely familar to (according to most Dems and Hill supportors) Bill's when he ran for President.

What a bunch of hypocrites. Experience doesn't matter when you like the guy!

Get the facts, not the hype!

mary-NH   April 15th, 2008 3:30 pm ET

Romney, you were wrong when you thought you could buy the nomination, you are wrong if you think McCain will put you on the ticket cause he really couldn't stand you, like a lot of us…Why don't you go shore up your businesses after the loss you took, stay the hell out of this race cause most of us are glad we don't have to see your smarmy face any more.

Val   April 15th, 2008 3:31 pm ET

McCain / Romney 08! McCain / Romney all the way!

This will truly be a winning ticket!

EXPERIENCE, NATIONAL SECURITY, ECONOMIC STRENGTH and EXPERTISE v. oh, I don't know what, may be hope and change that America Cannot Believe In. That's about it, folks. This is what it's going to be about in November when American people go to polls. Great speeches and charisma will not matter, but rather substance of the real issues facing our nation.

Steve   April 15th, 2008 3:34 pm ET

McCain/Romney

Farrell, Houston, Tx   April 15th, 2008 3:36 pm ET

Romney, surely you are joking and if not this is disappointing coming from you. John McCain stated himself he wasn't strong when it comes to economics and he still isn't. I hope Mitt Romney doesn't lose respect for himself to support someone elses ignorance.

James   April 15th, 2008 3:40 pm ET

Oh lord, save us. Mitt Romney reminds me of Hillary Clinton.

therealist   April 15th, 2008 3:41 pm ET

I wonder if liberals would so easily overlook the anti-Americanism if Romney's pastor esponged it the way Obama's did.., what's the word for that??

Dave   April 15th, 2008 3:42 pm ET

Clarifier for Mike. The FLDS compound in Texas is in no way affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Please check your facts before you make gross generalizations.

The Austrian   April 15th, 2008 3:44 pm ET

But….. Washington is broken! Why would those 25 years of experience matter at all if the system the experience was spent in was broken to begin with?!?!?

Alex H   April 15th, 2008 3:45 pm ET

The one thing I highly respect about Mitt Romney is that he knew when to step out of the race. He said "I'm not going to dirty up our candidate" and he wasn't even that far behind! He knew the fate of the party was more important than himself even though he has no political job to fall back on. And now he's following through on his promise to support McCain. That's a team player. I think Hillary should take notes.

South Beach   April 15th, 2008 3:46 pm ET

McCain himself has admitted he knows nothing about the economy. His proposals today encouraging the U.S. to stop purchasing oil for reserves to bring the price down supports that view. I've been hearing for weeks that the shortages of our reserves are responsible for prices going up. McCain's suggestion also puts a question mark on his national security expertise, which would otherwise appear to be his strongpoint. Less reserves means more dependence on Middle Eastern suppliers who are less than friends to the U.S. and who also fund and harbor terrorist organizations and operatives in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as Lebanon and Pakistan — extending and complicating the wars in those places.

Valerie, ND   April 15th, 2008 3:49 pm ET

So the sharks are out, and the funny thing is the media is helping them. Obama will still win, and it won't be pretty, but the American people are not going to fall for this stupid argument. We know McGoo has nothing to offer but more war, more pain, more suffering. He’s good about trying to tell us that everything is fine, now let’s get back to the war. He is a zero, and nobody’s paying attention to him, because he will lose big in November.

So you can bring out the Romneys and the Huckabeasts, and the Hillaries, we don't care. Obama will win.

This plastic Romney is a zero, and his campaign was proof of that. If the GOP thinks it's got a winner, think again. They don't. The only winners will be the American soldiers when Barack brings them home.

See you in November–Obama 08

Venus   April 15th, 2008 3:49 pm ET

Shame on you Rommey! Mc Cain can't even read - give me a break!

AJ, IL   April 15th, 2008 3:49 pm ET

The guy who ran the most negative attacks on the Republican side (especially against McCain) is now vying to be McCain's VP candidate. How funny!

The only reason Mitt Romney is backing McCain is because he knows that anyone who is McCain's VP pick will have a clear field to run for President in 2012 should by some nightmare McCain is elected President.

Darth Vadik, CA   April 15th, 2008 3:50 pm ET

My God, they call Obama an elitist, a guy who did so much work for the comunity, what the heck did McCain actually do for his gated comunity (or 8 gated comunities).

But Obama is the arrogant one?

…and don't get me started on Hillary, the wretched woman would sell Bill, Chelsea and her mother to China for the Presidency.

But Obama is the arrogant one?

Now Romney is flapping his flip-flopping lips on the economy?.

Steve   April 15th, 2008 3:52 pm ET

Mitt has proven time and time again that he will say and do (or buy)whatever he thinks is necessary to promote his own agenda……NOT that of the American people. It didn't work in his bid for the presidency and it won't work in his bid for the V.P. spot. This man is as disingenuous as they come and would absolutely end any shot Sen. McCain has of reaching the White House.

Alex, NJ   April 15th, 2008 3:53 pm ET

OMG, Ken is back, where is Barbie?

Nightmare–let me wake up from this GOP,or in my book (Greedy Old People), dream. They wouldn't know how to fix America's problems if their lives depended on it. And since their lives don't (because they are gazillionaires), they won't care about our problems.

War, power, war, power, war, power….we've heard this record before and America is not buying it.

Obama 08
The People's President

Scott   April 15th, 2008 3:53 pm ET

Mike, are you really that ignorant?

McGoo II   April 15th, 2008 3:56 pm ET

If this Mr. McGoo II wants to be the VP, so be it. He couldn't buy the primaries, and he won't help McGoo buy the general. America has had enough of the gazillionaires looking their noses down on us, while watching our men and women sacrifice so their kids can have the easy life. Enough.

Hey Rom, when are you sending your boys over for the Bush/McGoo war? Never, I thought so.

Obama 08

Ken Doll   April 15th, 2008 4:00 pm ET

I've had enough of this political Kool-aid. I'm not drinking it, and neither is the American people. Enough is enough.

Take your trust funds, and your caviar, and go back to your eight homes and your yachts. We don’t' need you. There's a war going on that needs to be stopped. That will help our economy.

Obama 08

Darth Vadik, CA   April 15th, 2008 4:03 pm ET

I have an idea!!

Lets put the people who are responsible for the current recesion, back in charge again, yippy,

just like the Italians, who for the love of it WHY? put a guy back in charge after they ousted him four years ago, yes, a media mogul who bought two previous elections.

Tommy Lee Jones put it best in "Men in Black" (I'm paraphrasing)
"A person is smart, people are dumb, panicky things".

April in Texas   April 15th, 2008 4:06 pm ET

Oh my gosh here we go again.. Your 15 min of fame is up and there is no help for McCain as it would be a nightmare if he actually wins the pesidency.

Obama 08

Liars Will Always Lie   April 15th, 2008 4:11 pm ET

Don't be fooled by liars, all that glitters is not gold. Hillary will try to steal this election for Hillary and nothing will happen. She is a train wreck waiting to happen and I'm not going to look.

I'm going to vote for real change and a real chance to bring our soldiers home. That change and that chance is Barack Obama.

Obama 08

Jeff   April 15th, 2008 4:16 pm ET

Romney will say anything to get the VP! I stll haven't forgot things you said about MCSAME economic cridentials !

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