When failure is a team effort

[jaxx]

When failure is a team effort
By Steve Benen
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Thu Sep 13, 2012 8:00 AM EDT



Towards the end of Mitt Romney's press event yesterday on developments in Libya and Egypt, a reporter asked the Republican whether he would have issued a false and accusatory statement, during a crisis, if he'd realized four Americans were being killed.

<..> One of Romney's "senior advisers" told the Times they'd worked on a narrative -- Obama's foreign policy is "weak," all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding -- and the team "felt this was a situation that met our critique."

In other words, Romney and his aides had a line of attack, they thought events abroad reinforced their talking points, so they jumped -- like lemmings off a cliff -- before they had any idea what they were talking about. This wasn't some low-level staffer who screwed up after the senior staff had gone to bed; this was the candidate and his advisors linking arms and failing together.

<..> And with less than eight weeks to go before Election Day, Romney blew it. Americans got a good look at how the former one-term governor responds when the heat is on, and we got to see him and his team fail.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/0...ffort?lite

This is becoming a real gotcha moment in Willard's dirty campaign. To sit back and wait for an incident and then use it to say Obama is weak on foreign policy.....the fools have no idea they gotcha'd themselves instead. Willard doesn't come across as a leader, he comes across as a snide, sniveling traitor.

[jaxx]

This is what Steve mentioned in his piece:

Today at 9:31 AM
Romney Adviser Admitted Libya Flub Before New York Times Scrubbed Story
By Joe Coscarelli

A front page New York Times article this morning describes how Mitt Romney "personally approved" his apology-less campaign statement yesterday accusing Barack Obama of sympathizing with terrorists, but an early iteration of the story was far juicier. In a version posted online last night, the Times quoted "an adviser to the campaign who worked in the George W. Bush administration" who went so far as to say that Romney "had forgotten the first rule in a crisis: don't start talking before you understand what's happening." That's more or less the criticism that was pelted at Romney throughout the day yesterday by pundits, and by President Obama himself, but to hear it from the mouth of an adviser, even an anonymous one, in the Times, really stings. Or stung — that quote has since disappeared from the article.

It's common for newspaper stories to undergo edits throughout the day until a final version makes it to the morning paper, but in this case, the entire thing has been changed (except the URL), as displayed by the website NewsDiffs, which has both. The original version of the story, "Behind Romney's Decision to Criticize Obama on Libya," was credited to David E. Sanger and Ashley Parker, while the final product, "A Challenger’s Criticism Is Furiously Returned," is by Peter Baker and Ashley Parker.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/09/rom...story.html

Willard's people trying to clean up their image. Too late!

[azmouse]

I wonder how Willard continues to speak out of both sides of his mouth with his foot taking up much of the room in there. It's quite a talent.