Posted 12/30/2011 12:12 PM ET

Any doubt about Mitt Romney’s conservative credentials were slaughtered this week during one of his speaking appearances across the hotly-contested caucus state of Iowa.

Some Republicans see the former businessman, former governor as a latter-day conservative, given some of the less than cruel deals he made with an 85% Democratic legislature in the liberal state of Massachusetts that wouldn’t recognize the color red if it was streaming from its arm.

Romney’s Republican audience was generally familiar with the spending reputation of this Chicago guy who has during his 1,074 days in office been largely responsible for teaching Americans what a trillion or four is.

So, the former governor sought to demonstrate to the crowd how serious is the Washington spending problem and how serious he is about righting the nation’s fiscal ship by cutting federal spending, even federal spending on some things once seen as sacred.

That’s when the grandfather of 16 children said he was even prepared to cut the federal subsidy for PBS and a large, feathered resident of Sesame Street who can at times seem endearingly dim. Romney thinks, given the country’s dire financial straits, the yellow fellow is old enough now to earn his own non-taxpayer financial support.

Forget Putin. Do you have any idea how much courage that takes, knowing you’ll face those 16 little faces at Sunday dinner?

The C-SPAN video below is not long. See for yourself how Grandpa Mitt put it. 

http://news.investors.com/Article/596300/201112301212/mitt-romney-money-pbs-big-bird.htm

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