#6. Romney Doubles Down on Gitmo
May 15, 2007
"Some people have said we ought to close Guantanamo. My view is we ought to double Guantanamo."
— Mitt Romney, at a South Carolina Republican debate, voicing support for Guantanamo's controversial "enemy combatant" program, just a month before former Secretary of State Colin Powell suggested closing Guantanamo "not tomorrow, but this afternoon"
While Romney won some praise from the tough-on-terror crowd, to many observers his comment simply reinforced his image as a formerly moderate Republican trying too hard to woo conservative voters.
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