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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitt Romney Adviser: 'Real Americans' Don't Care About Candidate's Afghanistan Policy
A senior adviser to Mitt Romney declined to provide more specific details on the presumptive GOP nominee's plan for Afghanistan on Thursday, saying it was a distraction from what "real Americans want to talk about."
The Romney campaign has said the former Massachusetts governor "supports the 2014 timetable as a realistic timetable and a residual force post-2014" in Afghanistan, but he would not have announced the withdrawal timeline publicly, as President Barack Obama did. But as Josh Rogin at The Cable notes, "details remain sketchy" on what Romney would do beyond the timeline.
Top senators are equally flummoxed. None of them who talked to Rogin were able to explain what Romney's policy was.
On MSNBC on Thursday, Romney Senior Communications Adviser Tara Wall was asked about Rogin's article and whether Romney should have a more specific policy on Afghanistan before his upcoming trips to Israel and London. Wall replied that these "attacks" were a distraction from the more important issues of jobs and the economy:
more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/19/mitt-romney-afghanistan_n_1687081.html
snooper2
(30,151 posts)God this is fun LOL
chowder66
(9,104 posts)That we the people who want to know the details are not real Americans?
The families and friends of those who fucking sacrificed their lives are not real Americans.
The effing gall of these bastards.
C_U_L8R
(45,035 posts)and feast upon the fears of small ignorant minds.
"Real Candidates" lift us higher and inspire us
all to make the world a better place for each other.
And "Real Candidates" release their freaking taxes
Just sayin'
A-Long-Little-Doggie
(1,011 posts)And my "real American" son cares, too.
uponit7771
(90,371 posts)liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)Initech
(100,139 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)right now are just thrilled to find out they're not real Americans.