What do you Yahoo Republicans think of Mittens Romney turning on Bush?

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Tuesday the Bush administration mismanaged the Iraq war, distancing himself from his party's unpopular president two days before Iowa's first-in-the-nation presidential contest. "I think we did a less than effective job in managing the conflict following the collapse of Saddam Hussein," the former Massachusetts governor said at a news conference. "I think we were under prepared for what occurred, understaffed, under planned, and, in some respects, under managed."

Public Comments

1. So what. He's entitled to his opinion. Mittens... clever.
2. I think he's trying to paint himself as someone who doesn't agree with Bush's policies, since liberals are looking for another Bush to trash.
3. Wen you look at the total incompetence of Bush and the people he has selected to work at the white house, it only seems reasonable that anyone would "turn" on poor George.
4. flush both of them away and vote for huckabee. since CNN hates huckabee and is supporting romney, i will vote for huckabee. whatever cnn supports, i am against. they employ candy crowly and wolf blitzer, that is reason enough to keep a close watch on this evil news channel. huckabee all the way because the cnn management opposes him. the dirty rotten scoundrels at cnn must be watched carefully. they influence too many people.
5. The statement is rather obvious. Few would disagree with it. I do not find this to be turning on Bush, but rather a acknowledgment of failures. I support Romney and do not like Bush, but I find no "turning on Bush" with such a statement.
6. I think that even most Republicans would agree w/ Mitt although they would blame it mostly on Rumsfeld who was the one who told Bush he only needed 150,000 US troops to stay in Iraq after the invasion. They'd also say that at least Bush ordered the "Surge" that has worked very well lately.
7. Might he not have been making a simple observation, rather than "turning on" or "distancing himself from" the President? Bush himself has acknowledged that things didn't go so well after Saddam was taken down.
8. Isn't this the same Romney that trashed Huckabee for basicly saying the same thing. Can you say flim-flam man. Romney is a spineless weasel that will say anything to win. The only problem with that is that he has to keep contradicting himself. He has no real stands or convictions. Which ever way the wind blows is the direction he goes.
9. He knows Ron Paul is on the right track and it is a lame and desperate attempt to grab some votes.
10. The statement is a belief held by many Republicans, the problem is not the statement...it is the flip. Two weeks ago Romney was asking for Huckabee to apologize for saying essentially the same thing. Now, realizing that the comments resonated with voters, he changed his mind. So logically, Romney will now need both for Huckabee to apologize to Bush, for Romney to apologize to Bush as well, and Romney will need to then apologize to Huckabee for the original apology, as it was invalid. Anyone else lost? If Romney is elected, we have better have some very attentive diplomats to keep up with his opinion of the day.
11. Dude, he didn't say Mike Huckabee was wrong about the war. He said Huckabee was wrong about characterizing President Bush's foreign policy as an "arrogant bunker mentality". It had nothing to do with the war in Iraq. And by the way, he was right.