Washington Post: Romney Immediately Regretted Benghazi Response

[kpete]

Washington Post: Romney Immediately Regretted Benghazi Response

BENJY SARLIN 10:19 AM EST, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Aides to Mitt Romney told the Washington Post that Romney was upset with his much maligned handling of the Benghazi attack in September -- but decided to double down on it anyway in order to keep the base from growing demoralized.

From the Post:

By sunrise the next day, it was clear to Romney that they had acted too quickly. The campaign learned that four Americans had been killed in an attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. Even to some Republicans, Romney’s hasty statement looked insensitive.

“We screwed up, guys,” Romney told aides on a conference call that morning, according to multiple people on the call. “This is not good.”

His advisers told him that, if he took back his statement, the neoconservative wing of the party would “take his head off.” He stood by it during an appearance in Florida. Two days later, Obama traveled to Joint Base Andrews to meet the four flag-draped coffins.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/the-strategy-that-paved-a-winning-path/2012/11/07/0a1201c8-2769-11e2-b2a0-ae18d6159439_print.html

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/washington-post-romney-immediately-regretted-benghazi-response

[Frances]

1. Because Romney could not stand up to the Tea Party,

he did not have the right stuff to be President.

[JDPriestly]

2. That is why Obama will make the best president.

Romney is impulsive and emotional while Obama is cautious and thoughtful.

That is why we trust Obama more.

[Skittles]

3. he screwed up, and did not have enough honor to amend

totally NOT presidential material

[barbtries]

10. as always

it is not the good of the country he's thinking about. just the good of mitt, the good of the campaign, the good of the rich mans party. jeez i'm glad he lost.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Who cares now, WP?

[Zoeisright]

5. And that's why he doubled down on it?

Sounds like another repuke lie.

[JCMach1]

6. I call Bullshit... they could have let it go

but they chose not too.

[nyquil_man]

7. It was obvious in the second debate that Benghazi was a loser for Romney.

He hemmed and hawed while the President sounded like, well, the President.

[Javaman]

8. BS. having regrets means one has to have a conscience.

sociopaths have neither.

[tanyev]

9. He regretted all the criticism he got.

[Javaman]

15. LOL good one. :) nt

[FSogol]

11. Remeber his smile? How satisifeid he seemed, bashing the Pres, while Americans died overseas?

F' Romney.

[Cha]

17. Check out post 16, FSogol..

[Doodler71]

12. The political ads are over but fighting to get the extremist

Teaparty & neocons out of the house is not. The ones still in office need to be sidelined and we need to continue to stand together to put pressure on our representatives to repudiate the extremists & their agenda.

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. Romney lied about that regret too

mark that up as another lie.

239,932 and counting.

[wishlist]

14. Spineless caving in to the right wing showed his weak character

On every issue he failed to show any backbone against the neocons and the Tea Party extremists but he also failed to ever stand up against the blatant dishonesty of his political operatives who invented demonstrably false claims against Obama that Romney refused to retract.

[Cha]

16. Yeah I bet... romney needs to just go

and fuck off.

[FSogol]

18. Great pic. n/t

[joeybee12]

19. I tend to doubt he really did say that...

This is cya mode when he's trying to make himself look better now that the election is over...