Barney Frank On Mitt Romney: "There Is A Meanness At His Core"
March 30, 2012
"He has reversed his position on the environment. On the questions of whether or not we should ban abortion. On health care, very clearly. And usually, I will say this, usually when a politician shifts position to a certain group, they don't mind. People are very tolerant of people who flip towards them," Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said of Mitt Romney on MSNBC's "Martin Bashir" program.
"But Mitt Romney has been so obvious in his absolute lack of principle that even the people who he temporarily says I agree with you, are not reassured because they understand that when the wind blows, there he will go again. There's also in Mitt Romney and people don't fully intend -- there is a meanness at his core," Frank observed.
"You know, he ran ads -- I never thought i would feel some sympathy for Newt Gingrich but Mitt Romney with enormous amounts of money at his beck and call from people who want him to treat them right and protect their riches has run the most relentlessly savage campaign against anybody who dared get in his way. He ran an abusive personal campaign against Senator Kennedy. He ran a demeaning personal campaign against a first-rate woman who ran against him for Governor, Shannon O'Brien. When he wanted to be governor, he undercut the then-Republican governor, Jane Swift. He has a record of being very abusive toward women politicians if he has to be. So with all this planned image of his, you will not find a more devoted practitioner of the most vicious aspect in a record of politics than Mitt Romney," Frank opined.
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