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LiberalFighter

(50,928 posts)
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 08:46 PM Sep 2012

Interesting inside of Romney's campaign

Inside the campaign: How Mitt Romney stumbled at Politico 9/16/2012

Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney’s top strategist, knew his candidate’s convention speech needed a memorable mix of loft and grace if he was going to bound out of Tampa with an authentic chance to win the presidency. So Stevens, bypassing the speechwriting staff at the campaign’s Boston headquarters, assigned the sensitive task of drafting it to Peter Wehner, a veteran of the last three Republican White Houses and one of the party’s smarter wordsmiths.

Not a word Wehner wrote was ever spoken.

Stevens junked the entire thing, setting off a chaotic, eight-day scramble that would produce an hour of prime-time problems for Romney, including Clint Eastwood’s meandering monologue to an empty chair.
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Interesting inside of Romney's campaign (Original Post) LiberalFighter Sep 2012 OP
The comments are amusing PSPS Sep 2012 #1
CEO's don't like being told what to do. TheCowsCameHome Sep 2012 #2

PSPS

(13,598 posts)
1. The comments are amusing
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 08:53 PM
Sep 2012

The "True Believers" are clamoring that Politico is "biased" and won't publish anything critical "of their boy Obama." Anyone who says Politico is even left-leaning has really gone off the edge.

TheCowsCameHome

(40,168 posts)
2. CEO's don't like being told what to do.
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 08:54 PM
Sep 2012

They're goddamned smart, don'tcha know.

Plus, Romney is surrounded by yes men, just the way he likes it.

Goodbye, Willard.

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