Romney Campaign Tries To Walk Back Policy Details Revealed At Fundraiser (HUD & Dept Of Education)

[SunsetDreams]

Mitt Romney has made it very clear he wants to keep it vague on the campaign trail when it comes to the way he’ll change how the American government looks. The politics of actually saying what he plans to do are just to dangerous for him to speak in anything else but gauzy language, he’s said.

That’s the standard for the general electorate, anyway. Romney’s big-time donors, however, are another story. Two reporters on the trail with Romney over the weekend overheard Romney detailing his vision for eliminating the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and dramatically trimming the Department of Education — specific proposals he’s yet to unveil on the trail.

His campaign predictably tried to put the genie back in the bottle.

Here’s Romney talking specific government cuts at a Sunday evening high-dollar fundraiser in Palm Beach, Fla., via NBC News:

“I’m going to take a lot of departments in Washington, and agencies, and combine them. Some eliminate, but I’m probably not going to lay out just exactly which ones are going to go,” Romney said. “Things like Housing and Urban Development, which my dad was head of, that might not be around later. But I’m not going to actually go through these one by one. What I can tell you is, we’ve got far too many bureaucrats. I will send a lot of what happens in Washington back to the states.”

More here: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/romney-talks-specific-cuts-campaign-immediately-rolls-back-specificity.php?ref=fpa

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1. Nothing to See here

Move along.

[SunsetDreams]

2. .

[liberal N proud]

3. If he eliminated anything, where would his cronies work after the election

He talks of eliminating these things but if he did manage to get into the white house, IF, then he would need to hand out hundreds of jobs to people he owed favors to.

You can't eliminate it if you need to give someone a job.