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BelieveMe3

(134 posts)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 11:49 PM Aug 2012

You can't make this up--Romney takes questions from backers-CBS news

Appears Romney is too afraid of having to answer actual questions, so he's stacked the deck:


CBS News) Mitt Romney held the 100th town meeting of his campaign Monday in Manchester, N.H. - the same town where he held his very first last year. He has often remarked to reporters that he truly enjoys hosting such campaign events, feeding off of the energy and spontaneity provided by his questioners.

However, today, it seemed that spontaneity was not quite as omnipresent.

While the top of the event, attended by an estimated 3,000 people, mostly focused on the economy, two questions at the end were about foreign policy, a topic that he and his running mate, Paul Ryan, also present today, have little hands-on experience with during their political careers.

The queries were about Afghanistan and Israel, asking what a Romney-Ryan administration would do to achieve American pursuits in both. Romney took the opportunity in his answers to criticize President Obama for failed leadership abroad, and offered that he would be a much stronger and transparent leader.

The audience members who asked the questions, however, were not strangers.

The Afghanistan question came from New Hampshire state senator Jack Barnes, 80, who is serving his 16th year in the state Senate and was among the first in the state's legislature to endorse Romney last year. His question was followed by one regarding Israel, posed by prominent New Hampshire Tea Party activist Jennifer Horn. Horn is a former congressional candidate in the state, and was heavily involved in the Republican primary process, hosting town meetings featuring many of the candidates though her "We the People" forum group.

Neither Barnes nor Horn identified themselves by name upon taking the microphone, but it seems likely that Romney knew who they were when taking their questions. When Romney answered Barnes' question, he thanked him for his military service, prefacing it with "you know I've said this to you before." After Horn endorsed Romney in December, she has stumped solo and alongside him at multiple campaign-sponsored events.

The Romney campaign did not comment when CBS News asked for reaction.

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You can't make this up--Romney takes questions from backers-CBS news (Original Post) BelieveMe3 Aug 2012 OP
Stronger and transparent? In just what way? AnotherDreamWeaver Aug 2012 #1
OK, that should be "Filed Taxes" as we are not sure he paid any. AnotherDreamWeaver Aug 2012 #2
Maybe Rmoney is thinking TruthAnalyzed Aug 2012 #3

AnotherDreamWeaver

(2,846 posts)
1. Stronger and transparent? In just what way?
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 02:49 AM
Aug 2012

Someone should have asked him about his taxes, a doner doing that would get him.

Be transparent about where you paid your taxes and registered to vote!!!

TruthAnalyzed

(83 posts)
3. Maybe Rmoney is thinking
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 03:58 AM
Aug 2012

That he can win the election if all the voters are plants. Maybe if he can find a way to keep voters out of the booths the way he keeps the press out of events...

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