US elections 2012: Mitt Romney ‘ will shut down several US government departments’

“Things like Housing and Urban Development, which my dad was head of, that might not be around later. But I’m not going to actually go through these one by one. What I can tell you is, we’ve got far too many bureaucrats. I will send a lot of what happens in Washington back to the states.”

The remarks, which also included some as yet undisclosed further details of how a Romney administration would pay for proposed tax cuts, prompted the Obama campaign to accuse Mr Romney of having a “disturbing” love of secrecy.

“Apparently Gov Romney believes only high dollar donors have a right to know what programmes he will cut,” Ben LaBolt, an Obama campaign spokesman, posted on Twitter.

The Obama campaign, which hopes to paint Mr Romney as an out-of-touch multi-millionaire, is pressing Mr Romney to release more of his tax returns that could contain details of potentially embarrassing offshore investment trusts used in legal tax avoidance.

David Axelrod, the Obama campaign’s chief strategist, promised over the weekend to make secrecy a key plank of the Democrats’ attacks on Mr Romney, who they depict as a faintly sinister character who has the interests of the ‘one per cent’ uppermost.

“Hearkening back to my youth, which extends far beyond yours, there was a show called, ‘I’ve Got A Secret.’ Increasingly, I think that would be the appropriate title for the Romney campaign,” Mr Axelrod told the Politico website, recalling the story that Mr Romney removed the hard drives from his office computers at the end of his term as governor of Massachusetts.

“There are central issues, but this is a disturbing one,” he added, “and it goes to that question of, like, ‘Who is this guy? What does he stand for? What does he believe? What do we know about him?'” In another unguarded aside, Mr Romney’s wife Ann was also overheard admitting that she had “loved” last week’s campaign controversy that was sparked when a democratic strategist criticised her for being a stay-at-home mother.

“It was my early birthday present for someone to be critical of me as a mother, and that was really a defining moment, and I loved it,” said Mrs Romney said who Republicans hope will be a key weapon in narrowing Mr Romney’s 19-point opinion poll deficit with women voters.

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