Mitt Romney's self-imposed gag order

[Playinghardball]

It's been nearly three weeks since Mitt Romney's last interview (if you count sitting down with Newsmax to be an interview) and it's been more than a month since he last answered a question from his traveling press pool.

Compare that with President Obama who in just the past two weeks has sat down for interviews with NBC's Brian Williams, at least seven local news stations, and the Des Moines Register editorial board. The president also took a question from a White House reporter following his Hurricane Sandy statement and agreed to interviews with The Tonight Show's Jay Leno, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart and MTV's Sway Calloway. And keep in mind that President Obama did all that even though he doesn't have the luxury of being able to make campaigning his full-time job.

Given the closeness of this race, you'd think Romney would take advantage of every opportunity available to him to get his message out, especially with President Obama making himself available. Instead, Romney's running from the media. So here's the question: What's Mitt afraid of?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/31/1153037/-Mitt-Romney-s-self-imposed-gag-order

[KelleyD]

1. Screwing Up! Loose lips sink ships! LOL n/t

[Andy823]

2. What's Mitt afraid of?

He is afraid that if he has to actually answer a question, he won't know which Mitt will come forth to talk. Severely conservative Mitt who had to kiss up to the right wing crazies, Moderate Mitt who showed up at the first debate, flip flop Mitt who doesn't really know what he said in the past but whatever it was he meant it, or the lying sack of crap Mitt who happens to be the "real" Mitt.

No matter which on showed up, he knows he would be in trouble, so he has put himself in "Mittness protection" and ordered himself to just shut up and rely on the american people being to stupid to know just what kind of a habitual liar he really is! To bad that isn't going to work!

[spanone]

3. mitt the mute

[meadowlark5]

4. He doesn't know what his message is

It changes day to day, hour by hour and he can't speak off the cuff - it seems he must wait till his advisors and campaign managers tell him how to answer or what his policy for today will be.

He cannot speak without scripted questions and scripted answers, that's why interviews must be avoided. Too much room to screw up. He's not doing so well as it is, one stupid comment like the one equating cleaning up a football field full of rubbish to cleaning up after a category 1 hurricane is stupid. He says stupid shit like that all of the time but most people never hear or see it, an interview would most likely be national and people would see it.

[KharmaTrain]

5. Willard's Painted Himself In The Corner...

He can etch-a-sketch all he wants but this game is getting real old real fast. The Bishop knows that no matter how he answers a question he will be in conflict with some past statement/position or of that of rushbo and the teabaggers. He's rapidly running out of weasel room just in time for the electorate to kick him to the curb.

The scene of President Obama with Gov. Christie today will resonate big time and all but put a fork in Willard's last gasp. I expect a nice little uptick in the polls toward the weekend and we'll see "the stench" really go negative. The rushpublicans are throwing everything at President Obama right now and it's starting to double back on them...you can start to hear the hot air hissing away...

[Scuba]

6. They way I heard it Mitt got a phone call from someone represent "Charles, David and Sheldon"...

... telling him he was doing more harm than good.