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#dnc2012: Barney Frank mocks ‘Myth Romney’ on jobs | The Ticket - Yahoo! News →

Tart-tongued Democratic Rep. Barney Frank mocked Mitt Romney’s claims that his private-sector success makes him the better candidate to revive the economy, deriding the Republican candidate as “Myth Romney” in a speech to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday.

Frank joked that Romney, who served as governor of Frank’s home state of Massachusetts, was portraying himself as a “superhero of job creation” and a “wizard of private-sector financial engineering.”

“What we should have had as governor was Myth Romney. Myth Romney is a wonderful private-sector executive” who successfully harnessed his skills to foster job growth in Massachusetts, Frank said.

“We would have seen that in Massachusetts, [but] in fact the record is that during his term our job growth was only about 1.4 percent, which was a quarter of the national average,” Frank said, adding that the state ranked 47th in job growth nationally.

“I wish Myth Romney had been governor of the state I lived in,” said Frank. “But we had Mitt Romney.”

h/t: Yahoo! News