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Anatomy Of A Flail: Romney’s Attempts To Change The Subject From Bain
Anatomy Of A Flail: Romney’s Attempts To Change The Subject From Bain
Benjy Sarlin
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Changing the subject is a hallmark of a flailing campaign....Here’s a rough list of alternative issues the Romney campaign has dangled in front of the press since Thursday, when Romney’s SEC filings became the dominant campaign story.
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• Apology, Please: Republicans seized on a comment from Obama aide Stephanie Cutter suggesting Romney may have committed a felony if he offered misleading information in his SEC filings. Romney demanded a personal apology from the president during a media blitz on five networks Friday. He didn’t get one.
• VP Speculation: As things got out of hand Thursday, Drudge Report, which has been closely tied to the Romney campaign throughout the election, reported Romney was considering Condolezza Rice as running mate. He almost certainly wasn’t — Romney has said he’ll pick a pro-life veep, and repeated that pledge again the next day — but it was a handy distraction for a few hours. They tried the same trick again Monday, when any aide said Romney could announce a vice-presidential pick that week. Or not.
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• Obama Built Your Business! : The big story Americans should be focusing on, according to Romney, was that Obama said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.” The Romney campaign took the line so out-of-context that the video it posted for supporters consisted solely of that sentence on a loop. That’s because even the slightest shred of context — the sentences Obama spoke before and after that one, for example — make clear Obama was not referring to building businesses. He was referring to the roads, bridges and other infrastructure investments that benefit the private sector. That didn’t stop Romney from making it the centerpiece of his speech on Tuesday.
• Obama Is A Pot-Smoking Other: Romney surrogate John Sununu went on a Tuesday morning rampage that succeeded in drawing some attention away from the campaign’s Bain and tax problems. Sununu caught people’s attention by bringing up Obama’s teenage drug use, and for saying Obama didn’t understand America well because he lived in Indonesia as a child. He followed up on an official campaign call by suggesting Obama needs to “learn to be an American.” By the end of the day, Sununu had offered at least a partial apology.
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/romney-bain-subject-change.php
Benjy Sarlin
<...>
Changing the subject is a hallmark of a flailing campaign....Here’s a rough list of alternative issues the Romney campaign has dangled in front of the press since Thursday, when Romney’s SEC filings became the dominant campaign story.
<...>
• Apology, Please: Republicans seized on a comment from Obama aide Stephanie Cutter suggesting Romney may have committed a felony if he offered misleading information in his SEC filings. Romney demanded a personal apology from the president during a media blitz on five networks Friday. He didn’t get one.
• VP Speculation: As things got out of hand Thursday, Drudge Report, which has been closely tied to the Romney campaign throughout the election, reported Romney was considering Condolezza Rice as running mate. He almost certainly wasn’t — Romney has said he’ll pick a pro-life veep, and repeated that pledge again the next day — but it was a handy distraction for a few hours. They tried the same trick again Monday, when any aide said Romney could announce a vice-presidential pick that week. Or not.
<...>
• Obama Built Your Business! : The big story Americans should be focusing on, according to Romney, was that Obama said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.” The Romney campaign took the line so out-of-context that the video it posted for supporters consisted solely of that sentence on a loop. That’s because even the slightest shred of context — the sentences Obama spoke before and after that one, for example — make clear Obama was not referring to building businesses. He was referring to the roads, bridges and other infrastructure investments that benefit the private sector. That didn’t stop Romney from making it the centerpiece of his speech on Tuesday.
• Obama Is A Pot-Smoking Other: Romney surrogate John Sununu went on a Tuesday morning rampage that succeeded in drawing some attention away from the campaign’s Bain and tax problems. Sununu caught people’s attention by bringing up Obama’s teenage drug use, and for saying Obama didn’t understand America well because he lived in Indonesia as a child. He followed up on an official campaign call by suggesting Obama needs to “learn to be an American.” By the end of the day, Sununu had offered at least a partial apology.
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/romney-bain-subject-change.php
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