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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDavid Axelrod: If Romney Can't Condemn Limbaugh, 'How Can He Stand Up To Ahmadinejad?'
The president's communications guru, along with campaign manager Jim Messina, held a conference call with reporters to spin the results from Super Tuesday. But at various points the talk turned to Limbaugh, whose comments about Georgetown Law School student Sandra Fluke -- in which he called her a "slut" for wanting her birth control covered by insurers and demanded to see sex tapes in return -- landed him in hot water among advertisers, syndicators, and lawmakers.
In response to Limbaugh's comments, Romney has said "its not the language I would have used." Of the Republicans who actually criticized the conservative talking head, Romney's response was among the more timid. And on the call, Axelrod pounced.
If Romney couldn't stand up to "the most strident voices in your party how can he stand up to Ahmadinejad?" Axelrod asked. "How are you going to stand up to the challenges of the presidency? These are tests. Presidential campaigns are tests. You are tested every single days in different ways. The Limbaugh thing was a test of leadership, and you have them all the time, and Mitt Romney has failed those tests in the campaign."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/07/david-axelrod-mitt-romney-rush-limbaugh_n_1326916.html
That's going to leave a mark
qb
(5,924 posts)applegrove
(118,767 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Absolutely brilliant. Should have saved that one for a nationally televised debate.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)They'll use it again... and again, and again.
flakey_foont
(3,339 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)It needs to go viral and be hammered home hard.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)when you read the comments, why in the hell are so many Huffpo readers so right wing? I know Ariana and her fellow Obama hater Lady Rothchild are, but at some point, don't they realize that letting the right wing infest the site will not heklp their cause?
tulsakatz
(3,122 posts)Skittles
(153,185 posts)he's COOL!
Gruntled Old Man
(127 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)david is a whole lot better. david did`t need the supremes to install bush and have ohio rig their machines.
david,dick durbin,and barack obama were tutored by one of the finest senators illinois has ever elected , the late paul simon. before he died he gave advice and his "blessing" to a young barack obama. i guess one could say..the rest is history.