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MITT CRIES CONDI
Posted by Alex Koppelman
Political campaigns dont, as a rule, tend to show much respect for the collective intellect of the media that cover them. They think were lazy and sloppy and more interested in noise than policy, and that we can, like babies and cats, be easily distracted by shiny objects. Theyre not totally wrong.
Even by those standards, though, the stunt that Mitt Romneys campaign pulled Thursday evening was almost insulting in its lack of subtlety. Scrambling to divert the medias attention from the question of when, exactly, Romneys tenure at Bain Capital really ended, as compared to when he says it did, they decided to leak the shiniest object of them all: a veepstakes rumor about a surprising name emerging as a frontrunner, floated directly to Matt Drudge
Forget that Romneys base doesnt particularly like Rice, whether because of her pro-choice views or because she was too much of a realist for the neo-conservatives in the Bush foreign-policy establishment. There are dozens of possible running mates out therefor what possible reason would Romney pick the one person guaranteed to give President Obama the chance to take some focus off the economy and make the election into a referendum on George W. Bushs foreign policy? (If you dont think Obamas reëlection campaign has done enough crowing about the fact that he did what Bush couldnt and got Osama bin Laden killed, wait until the Biden-Rice debate.
debate.)http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/07/mitt-cries-condi.html
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(21,078 posts)insulted anyone would think she would have any interest at all in this clown show. She handled her disgust quite well I think..
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