Romney Campaign: "real" Americans don't care about Afghanistan

Apparently Romney doesn't consider members of our military and their families to be "real" Americans ... or anyone else who is concerned with our involvement in foreign wars. :shock:

When asked about Romney's Afghanistan policy (or lack thereof), senior communications advisor Tara Wall said:

Unfortunately it’s disappointing that the attacks, these recent attacks on all these issues outside of what the issues are relative to Mitt Romney [a/k/a questions about Afghanistan] are diverting away from what real Americans want to talk about. And real Americans want to talk about getting back to work.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/19/mitt-romney-afghanistan_n_1687081.html

You realize that is painfully dishonest spin on your part. She spoke poorly, but her point was not that those who care about Afghanistan are not real americans, but that the big issue for most americans is the economy and jobs. Why not leave the stupid crap like this to the other side and try and take the high road?

AdamT said:

Apparently Romney doesn't consider members of our military and their families to be "real" Americans

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That's some serious spin. Not what she said at all.

... or anyone else who is concerned with our involvement in foreign wars. :shock:

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She chose her words poorly, but I think it was pretty obvious that she was just trying to keep the campaign focused on economic policy as it is by far the most important issue to the majority of the country.

Is this supposed to make us believe that Afghanistan has nothing to do with the US economy.

That in no way is what he meant and you know it.

And for f**k's sake, will you people stop making me defend Romney!

Anagram said:

That's some serious spin. Not what she said at all.



She chose her words poorly, but I think it was pretty obvious that she was just trying to keep the campaign focused on economic policy as it is by far the most important issue to the majority of the country.

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I agree she chose her words poorly but wars do affect our spending.

"It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months." -in Feb. 2003 Rumsfeld

Adam: you can change your Lean from Undisclosed. Just sayin'

Anyway, that's not how it was meant at all. I'm sure there is plenty of things to be upset with Romney about, but this is not one of them and this is desperation to try and discredit him.

AdamT said:

Apparently Romney doesn't consider members of our military and their families to be "real" Americans ... or anyone else who is concerned with our involvement in foreign wars. :shock:

When asked about Romney's Afghanistan policy (or lack thereof), senior communications advisor Tara Wall said:



Mitt Romney Adviser: 'Real Americans' Don't Care About Candidate's Afghanistan Policy

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I am going to have to disagree with you on this one. We have seen some bad Romney spins, like the one about the "business not your own" remark of Obama, but what you are doing is a bad anti-Romney spin.

This lady did not say he believes that real Americans don't care about Afghanistan, she was there to sell the party line. The only line they feel can get them into the White House. The line as we all know is "jobs, jobs, jobs, bad Obama, jobs, jobs, very bad Obama, jobs, jobs, jobs, no more jobs under Obama, my plan is more jobs for everyone".

IMHO, that simplistic line might have worked in the pre-911 "it's the economy stupid" but we live in a post 911 world were jobs are still really important but other issues that also make up how happy people are do not get mentioned that often in Romney's speeches because in most of those subjects Obama runs rings around him.

Romney's only hope is that people think that this whole election is about how good he is at creating jobs and that the electorate forget that he is a stiff, upper class, multi millionaire, mormom, car elevator creating friend of big money who will have to work off all the money his rich buddies have donated to him by making laws that favor the people who are already filthy rich at the expense of all other Americans.

:lamo Only a goosestepping partisan hack could actually get that message out of what was said.

Lets see the whole the thing for those in the nose bleeds:

Unfortunately it’s disappointing that the attacks, these recent attacks on all these issues outside of what the issues are relative to Mitt Romney are diverting away from what real Americans want to talk about. And real Americans want to talk about getting back to work.

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He's clearly referring to the lines of attack on Romney over the last week.

AdamT said:

Apparently Romney doesn't consider members of our military and their families to be "real" Americans ... or anyone else who is concerned with our involvement in foreign wars. :shock:

When asked about Romney's Afghanistan policy (or lack thereof), senior communications advisor Tara Wall said:



Mitt Romney Adviser: 'Real Americans' Don't Care About Candidate's Afghanistan Policy

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Desperation, at its worst. Moving on.

Okay, mea culpa. It is an exaggeration and I shouldn't have posted it ... this way. It just set me off reading it and I really do think it was incredibly dismissive, as in, "hey, stop trying to knock me off my talking points by talking about that little war over there that no one cares about." It also touched a nerve insofar as I'm seeing a reemergence in the Romney campaign of the BS "real" and "not real" Americans theme that Palin so offensively kicked off four years ago, with Romney himself running around the country implying ... in fact SAYING that Obama is just too "foreign" and doesn't understand America.

So suck it.