Watching Trump And Sanders, Mitt Romney Says He Gets It: ‘We’re Just Mad As Hell’ [View all]

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By Robert Costa February 24 at 12:55 PM

In his most extensive remarks yet on the 2016 presidential race, Mitt Romney on Tuesday said he shared the feeling of many Americans that Washington has failed them and urged national leaders to take on big problems, including issues that the GOP has rarely put at the fore during the past year, such as climate change, poverty, education and income inequality.

“We’re just mad as hell and won’t take it anymore,” Romney said of the national electorate in an appearance at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., where he harshly criticized “the failure of current political leaders to actually tackle major challenges, or to try at least, or to go out with proposals.”

“Think for a moment about the major challenges you believe this country faces and tick them off in your mind and ask, ‘Are we making any real progress on any of them?’ Romney said, striking an exasperated tone as he turned to the crowd.

Romney then listed a range of topics that are priorities for Republicans and Democrats, from the national debt and the “scale of entitlements” for the former to “global warming” and poverty for the latter, and argued that little to nothing has been accomplished on those fronts in the past few years.