Nope. But he did
defend Rick Santorum from Mitt Romney's
cheap shot claim that Santorum's
unemployment rate remark meant that Santorum didn't care about people without jobs.
“I think that Rick Santorum’s right — I mean, this election’s about big things. It’s about liberty and freedom, and we’ve got the two-year anniversary of Obamacare that’s coming,” [RNC Chairman Reince] Priebus said on CNN’s “Early Start.” “I think the election is going to be more about … not only what the Department of Labor says the unemployment rate is but it’s going to be about Obamacare, the debt, the deficit.”
There's no doubt that Santorum's choice of words ("I don't care what the unemployment rate is going to be") was ill-advised from a political perspective. He was trying to say that unlike Mitt Romney, his political strategy isn't dependent on a weak economy, but the way in which he said it left him vulnerable to Romney's gotcha' style of campaigning. Substantively, he was saying the exact same thing as what Reince Priebus said, but his phrasing allowed Mitt Romney to claim he had said he didn't care about unemployed people.
Of course it's worth pointing out that while Mitt Romney was all-too-happy to seize on Santorum's verbal stumble, Romney himself has said nearly the exact same thing that he accused Santorum of saying—except when Romney said it, he meant it.
I'm not concerned with the very poor. We have a safety net there.
And as long as we're on the topic of amazing things Mitt Romney has said,
let's not forget:
Corporations are people, my friend.
It's no surprise then that he
feels compassion for banks dealing with foreclosure:
The banks are scared to death, of course ... they're feeling the same thing that you're feeling.
Speaking of foreclosure:
Don’t try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom, allow investors to buy up homes, put renters in them, fix the homes up, and let it turn around and come back up.
You'll notice I didn't even include his "I like to fire people" remark nor his "git rid of Planned Parenthood" remark. And there's a million more lines like those. The point is, Mitt Romney might be a better candidate than Rick Santorum, but that doesn't make him a good candidate. He's playing single A ball right now ... and he's barely winning.