RNC CHAIRMAN REINCE PRIEBUS:
ON OBAMA’S TAXPAYER-FUNDED ‘DEBT END BUS TOUR’: “We are going to come out swinging. We are not going to sit around and let this joke continue of a bus tour, paid for by the taxpayers of this country, paid for by people who are suffering with unemployment through the sky, debt out of control, deficits out of control, and a president who is really the Campaigner-in-chief here of America. All he’s doing is campaigning. That’s what this bus tour is, it’s a campaign trip. It’s paid for by taxpayers and we are not going to sit around and let it continue without at least responding.”
ON THE 2012 LANDSCAPE: “I think it’s great. I’m a big believer in big primary fields, getting everyone talking and debating the issues. All the earned media that all these candidates are generating, the buzz in America to change direction, make Barack Obama a one-term president, that’s what it’s all about, and that’s what we are doing here today in Minnesota.”
ON THE NEED FOR A PRESIDENT FOCUSED ON JOB CREATION: “It would be nice if we had a president who actually fulfilled the promises that he made. Remember, he’s the one that said he was going to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. What did he do? The biggest structural deficit in the history of America. The debt – you’ve heard people say one of the biggest security threats to our entire country is the mountains of debt. That means that we are spending too much money. That means we are not serious about the fact that the government is making promises that it can’t keep. We need people of their word to run for office, say what they are going to do and go to the White House and go do it. Unfortunately that is not what this president is all about, and we’re going to call him on it every step of the way from here until November 2012.”
ON READINESS OF THE RNC TO TAKE ON OBAMA: “We’re getting our debt under control, we’re raising money. We’ve had a bigger net take in the first 6 months at the RNC than we’ve had in many, many years. We are doing well. We’re functional, operational. Now it’s a matter of getting ourselves on a launch pad so we can take on Barack Obama, win the Senate and keep the House. So we’re on our way, we’re excited about it. I think there is an energy, there’s a movement in the field that we’re going to capture here in 2012. The movement is with taking back America and making Barack Obama a one-term president.”
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