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Former Ronald Reagan budget director speaks out against Mitt Romney

It's been a rough couple days for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney when it comes to receiving harsh criticism from some unlikely places. A piece was released by the New York Times yesterday, where Walter De Vries - a longtime aide of Mitt's father, George Romney - criticized Mitt for multiple things, in particular his flip-flopping, and even went on to say he'd be voting for Barack Obama in November.

Today, former Ronald Reagan budget director David Stockman had an op-ed published in The Daily Beast, where he, like De Vries, criticized Mitt Romney.

In the op-ed entitled "Mitt Romney: The Great Deformer," the former Reagan budget director said, "Mitt Romney was not a businessman. He was a master financial speculator who bought, sold, flipped, and stripped businesses."

He also stated, "Bain's billions of profits were not rewards for capitalist creation; they were mainly windfalls collected from gambling in markets that were rigged to rise."

Rumor has it that Mitt's own wife - Ann - will be the next person to criticize the Republican presidential nominee. Supposedly, she's set to have an op-ed of her own published, entitled, "Is it in yet?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/david-stockman-mitt-romney_n_1968106.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/14/david-stockman-mitt-romney-and-the-bain-drain.html

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