Mitt Romney Adviser: 'Real Americans' Don't Care About Candidate's Afghanistan Policy

[cali]

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:

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/19/mitt-romney-afghanistan_n_1687081.html

wow.

[Skidmore]

1. Who is this "real American" anyway?

I'd love to see someone have the presence of mind to ask some bozo who spouts this type of reasoning to define that term.

Not even Romney can tell us what policies he endorses in any area. It depends on the day, the time, what the last news story was in the preceding 10 minutes....etc.

[cali]

2. ain't that the truth

in 40 years of watching politics closely, I've never seen anything like it (him). Never.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Remember what Norquist declared?

All we have to do is replace Obama. ...  We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. ... We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don't need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate.

The requirement for president?

Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States. This is a change for Republicans: the House and Senate doing the work with the president signing bills. His job is to be captain of the team, to sign the legislation that has already been prepared.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. He's a puppet

who is completely devoid of anything but finding a way to protect his money from "you people".

[cali]

4. If you're implying that he's controlled by someone or some group

I don't think I quite buy into that, but I do think he has no beliefs or convictions outside of the personal belief that he should have more power than anyone else on earth.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. See my post # 5. n/t

[DCKit]

7. It's official: All Romney staffers are either interns or total hacks.

He's running his campaign the way he ran the companies Bain took over - right into the ground.

It's a real pity, too. We need him to stay in the race until November.